2.  Why were roads so common in early America when travel by boat was much cheaper?  Travel by roads was faster than travel by ship  travel by roads was safer than travel by ship  roads were the only way to reach landlocked areas  Americans had too few merchant ships

3.  roads were the only way to reach landlocked areas

4.  What was America's first economically successful railroad?  Baltimore & Ohio  Wabash & Erie  Lightning  Boston Post

5.  Baltimore & Ohio

6.  What event was heralded by the words “What hath God wrought”?  Opening of the Erie canal  first voyage of McKay's Lightning  the successful thirteen-mile trip of the tom Thumb  the first intercity telegraph message

7.  the first intercity telegraph message

8.  What was the fastest sailing ship ever built? ____________________

9.  The clipper ship

10.  A) DeWitt Clinton  B) Robert Fulton  C) F. B. Morse  ___ steamboat

11.  B) Robert Fulton

12.  A) DeWitt Clinton  B) Robert Fulton  C) F. B. Morse  ___ Erie Canal

13.  DeWitt Clinton

14.  A) DeWitt Clinton  B) Robert Fulton  C) F. B. Morse  ___ telegraph

15.  C) F. B. Morse

16.  T/F ___ New York's Erie Canal proved to be a great investment.

17.  True