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Chapter 10 Part 2 Review “Improved Transportation ”
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the first public road in present day WV
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Eastern Panhandle, from Winchester to Martinsburg Morgan Morgan’s home
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made it possible to carry large loads
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Conestoga Wagon
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A form of transportation that was faster and more comfortable than the Conestoga wagon Stagecoach
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Also called the Midland Trail
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Kanawha Turnpike ( U.S. 60)
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Main route across western Virginia in the early 1800s James River and Kanawha Turnpike
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connected Cumberland to Wheeling
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National Road
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Madonna of the Trail Statue on the National Road at the edge of Wheeling Park
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Designed the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike Claudius Crozet
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fee to use a road, to pay for the upkeep of the road
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tolls
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Swinging barrier on a toll road
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pike
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Rest stops for travelers and animals, became social centers
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Old Stone House, Red Horse Tavern on the Northwest Turnpike Now U.S. 50
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inns and taverns
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In what ways was social class not observed in the early taverns in America? 1.Rooms were rented on a “first come, first served” basis 2.Rank was not observed 3.Accommodations were shared
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social center at White Sulfur Springs
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Greenbrier Hotel
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main means of crossing large rivers
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ferries
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Operated a ferry in the eastern panhandle Robert Harper
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a shallow place to cross a stream or river ford
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Raft with sides, could be covered, carried people or property, pushed by poles, traveled downstream
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Flatboats
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flatboat
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Built because of problems with the ferry at the end of the National Road
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Wheeling Bridge
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Wheeling Suspension Bridge 1899
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Bow shaped to cut through water, keel made it possible to steer, powered by pushing poles, could go upstream
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Keelboats
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Keelboat
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European development was being used by American Bridge designers and builders
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Covered bridge Mud River- Milton Cabell County
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Dents Run Monongalia County
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Fish Creek Wetezel County
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Indian Creek Monroe County
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Locus Creek Pocahontas County
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What two of Chenoweth’s bridges are still in use today?
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Barrackville
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Philippi
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Barrackville - Philippi
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WV’s premier bridge builder
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Lemuel Chenoweth
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Join one river with another
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canal
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James River and Kanawha Canal
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Could carry tons of goods, pulled by one mule, on the canal Barges
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Large boats powered by steam engines, capable of going upstream and carrying large amounts of cargo and many passengers Steamboats
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Developed his boat at Bath, Berkeley Springs Adapted the steam engine to water transportation
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James Rumsey
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Shepherdstown
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Rumsey Monument at Shepherdstown
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Built the first steamboat with boilers on the first deck, creating a very shallow draft. He piloted the first steamboat upstream from New Orleans to Louisville Henry Shreve
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In 1915 where could you walk across the Kanawha River?
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Morgan’s Landing
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his steamboat, The Clermont, was demonstrated from New York to Albany
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Robert Fulton
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one who provides the funds for an undertaking financier
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Helped finance construction of steamboats to travel on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Financed Robert Fulton’s steamboat Nicholas J. Roosevelt
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Was launched to ship goods on the Ohio and Miss. By Nicholas Roosevelt, The first steamboat to travel the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
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“New Orleans”
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Helped to keep cars on the tracks
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flanged
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Steamboat built from timber of old Fort Henry
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“Washington”
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Rev. War officer, built a steam locomotive in New Jersey
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John Stevens
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Built the steam engine Tom Thumb that raced the stagecoach
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Peter Cooper’s steam engine, Tom Thumb, lost a race with a stagecoach when a belt broke
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Peter Cooper
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railroad that existed in western Virginia before the Civil War B&O
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Most outstanding engineering marvel of the B&O
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Tunnel at Tunnelton
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First horizontal boiler
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“Lafayette”
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Who laid the last stone in the B&O
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Charles Carroll
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the last station at the end of a railroad line terminus
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Where the B&O terminated
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Wheeling
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B&O Railroad Building
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Three problems with ferries
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Fees, interruptions, high water, dusk to dawn
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Three problems with river travel
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Falls, rapids, low water level
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suitable for a boat to sail on navigable
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Advantages of RR over canals
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Weather, froze in winter, limited to connecting rivers
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Did not freeze, did not require close care like horses, could go anywhere
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List the different roles that the B&O played in the development of WV
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Economic development Helped North in Civil War Helped create towns
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