1. U.S. History Chapter 13: Industrial Growth in the North Section 3: The Transportation Revolution

2. Quick share (I’m looking at you Wilson brothers!)
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Think of something that has been invented in your lifetime, that has made life easier. What is it and how did it make life easier.
Quick share (I’m looking at you Wilson brothers!)

3. Transportation Revolution
New Ways to Travel
Transportation Revolution
Period of rapid growth in the speed & convenience in travel
Created a boom in business

4. Roads, canals built New inventions Steamboat Railroad
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Roads, canals built
New inventions
Steamboat
Railroad

5. Shipping times reduced
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Shipping times reduced
1817: shipping cargo from Cincinnati, OH to New York, NY took two months
1850s: One week

6. Shipping costs reduced
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Shipping costs reduced
Overland: $100 to ship a load of goods by land across NY state
Canal: $5

7. The Steamboat
Steamboat: one of the first breakthroughs of the transportation revolution
Robert Fulton: inventor who developed a steam-powered boat

8. Fulton demonstrating his steamboat to Napoleon Bonaparte
The Steamboat
1803: tested a steamboat in France
Clermont: full-sized commercial steamboat
Fulton demonstrating his steamboat to Napoleon Bonaparte

9. Advantages: The Steamboat Move quickly against the current
Did not rely on wind power
Shorter travel time, reduced costs

10. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Thomas Gibbons: operated a steamboat between NJ & Manhattan using a federal license
Did not have a state license from NY

11. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) Aaron Ogden
Aaron Ogden: had been granted a monopoly on the steamboat business by NY state
Ogden sues Gibbons
Supreme Court rules in favor of Gibbons
Assertion of Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce
Federal law overruled state law
Aaron Ogden

12. 1800s: Steam- powered trains developed in Britain
American Railroads
1800s: Steam- powered trains developed in Britain
1830: Peter Cooper builds the Tom Thumb
Peter Cooper

13. American Railroads
Steam-powered trains became popular after Cooper raced the Tom Thumb against a horse-drawn railcar

14. American Railroads 1840: 2000 miles of track laid
Engineers built faster, more powerful locomotives
Accidents common because engineers would travel too fast

15. Shipping goods to distant markets
American Railroads
1860: 30,000 miles of track laid
Shipping goods to distant markets
Helped cities grow