1. Aim: Did the Transportation Revolution have a positive or negative impact on the U.S.?
Do Now: Interpret the chart on the following slide.
Homework:
Using your textbook complete your guided notes on the Gilded Age and Railroads. Due Friday 2/5

2. 1. What details stand out to you from the chart below?
Date:
1. What details stand out to you from the chart below?
2. What inferences can you make? 2

3. Roads, Canals, and Railroads, Oh My!
Objective: SWBAT analyze advances in transportation from

4. The Market Revolution
Comprised of a series of innovations in technology and transportation
Two revolutions:
Industrial
Transportation

5. The National Road, The Erie Canal, and the Birth of the Railroad Railroad
National Road: connected West to the Rest; connected Illinois/Indiana with Mid-Atlantic.

6. The Erie Canal
Erie Canal: connected New York to Great Lakes region; connected commerce for farmers.
--initially criticized
-massive financial success
1) What were some of the effects of the Erie Canal’s success?
Some people didn’t think it was worth it…and called it “Clinton’s Ditch”…

7. The Erie Canal .

8. The National Road, The Erie Canal, and the Birth of the Railroad Railroad
Steamboat and Railroad: revolutionized trade and travel from ; increases in interstate commerce.
Robert Fulton invented the steamboat in 1807
Connected river towns; stimulated trade
Flourishing of midwest cities

9. Spread of Railroads…

10. The National Road, The Erie Canal, and the Birth of the Railroad Railroad
Effects of Railroad: interstate commerce; industrial investment; increased migration.
A) Huge boom in interstate commerce
B) Large investments from Industrialists
C) Increased Migration
D) Increased focus of America in Westward Direction
1) Most important effect?

11. Activity Students will:
Independently analyze a set of documents on the transportation revolution.
Complete a graphic organizer deciding if the document shows a positive or negative effect.
Use evidence from the documents to support their claims.
Vote on the impact

12. Was the transportation revolution positive or negative?
Why….