Name _______________________ Date ______________ Pd. ______ Transportation Revolution – Ch. 12 sec Why do you think that the Transportation Revolution was inevitable (consider the concept of the Industrial Revolution in your answer)? Improvements in transportation enabled… to travel rapidly and efficiently. 5. What two new modes of transportation largely contributed to the Transportation Revolution? Video

6. Who is Robert Fulton? 11. In what ways did railroads affect the economy of the United States? 13. Explain the shift in demand for certain natural resources. 14.How were the railroad and steel industries interrelated? 7. What was the Clermont? Its significance? 8. What was the Gibbons v. Ogden case all about? (results?) 9. Steamboats enhanced travel and communication throughout the United States. New cities and towns cropped up along waterways across the US. How did those people and goods then travel between rivers? 12. Steamboats and railroads made getting goods to distant markets much easier and less costly. People in all areas of the nation now had access to products made and grown far away. More than ever before, there was a national economy. The wealth, however, was centered in the ______________ (directional part of the country). 10. What physical obstacles did railroad construction in the United States face? 15.How were trade and business affected by the Transportation Revolution? How it's made