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Setting the Scene

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Setting the Scene

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Setting the Scene

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Traveling West
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Western Routes

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The Great Wagon Road
The Wilderness Road
The Cumberland Gap

9. The Cumberland Gap

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Flatboats were used to move people and goods in the rivers instead of using the poorly made roads

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Flatboats were used to move people and goods in the rivers instead of using the poorly made roads

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Flatboats were used to move people and goods in the rivers instead of using the poorly made roads

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For years, Americans had been pushing farther and farther west in search of better farm land than could be found in New England.
Many settlers chose to settle in the Ohio River Valley. There were two main paths or trails that settlers used at first: The Great Wagon Road which connected to The Wilderness Road which led settlers through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky and Tennessee.
Settlers took other ways, including rivers or the Great
Lakes if they were going around the Appalachian Mountains instead of over them.

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So many people were moving west at one time that the population of the original 13 states actually declined or went down. This allowed for the addition of eight new states bringing the total up to 22.

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Improvements to Roads

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Some of the early roads (if you can call them that) were only wide enough for one wagon. They were often muddy and tree stumps were left behind which could damage a wheel or axle. As more people moved west, American needed to improve its roads.

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Improvements to Roads

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One improvement was the turnpike or toll road. Private companies (at first) and later the government made roads with gravel and flat, top stones to make travel smoother and faster, but you had to pay a fee to use them. Out in the wilderness, people built corduroy roads made of logs to get over swampy, muddy, sections of trails.

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Turnpikes and Corduroy Roads
A turnpike was a road built by a private company that charged a toll to travel on them. They used a gate or turnpike to stop the travelers at certain points to pay the toll.

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Turnpikes and Corduroy Roads
A turnpike was a road built by a private company that charged a toll to travel on them. They used a gate or turnpike to stop the travelers at certain points to pay the toll.

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Turnpikes and Corduroy Roads

25. Turnpike or Toll Road

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Turnpike or Toll Road

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Turnpike or Toll Road

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The Lancaster Turnpike

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The Lancaster Turnpike

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The Lancaster Turnpike that linked Philadelphia with the city of Lancaster was a smooth gravel road with flat stones on top.

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Corduroy Material Corduroy Road

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Corduroy Roads

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Corduroy roads were built from trees laid across the road. They were found mostly in rural areas and made to get across muddy areas. They were much easier and cheaper to make than a gravel road.

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The National Road

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The National Road
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The National Road was the first road in the United States paid for by tax money. This started the trend of government funded highways that we still use today.

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Americans Move Westward
Steam Transport

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Flatboats were great for hauling goods downstream, but it took a long time to paddle, push, or pull them back upstream.

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Steam Transport
Fitch and Fulton

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All the way back in 1787, John Fitch showed people a plan for how a steam engine could power a boat. He eventually built one, but his business was unsuccessful.

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Much later, Robert Fulton, probably inspired by Fitch’s ideas also built a steamboat named The Clermont. His steamboat business became a success.

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The Age of Steamboats

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Inspired by Fulton’s success, soon many other steamboats were built and were chugging up and down America’s rivers hauling passengers and cargo.

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The Age of Steamboats

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The Danger of Steamboats
Collisions
Explosions
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Newcomen Steam Engine

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Steam Engine

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Newcomen Steam Engine

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Steam Engine

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Watt Steam Engine

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Boiler for Steam Engine
This is NOT in the textbook, but without the steam engine, there would be no steamboat

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The Steam Engine
This is NOT in the textbook, but without the steam engine, there would be no steamboat

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Americans Move Westward
The Canal Boom

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Americans started building canals to connect rivers together and to connect rivers to lakes because you could carry more and heavier cargo quicker, cheaper, and easier than using wagons on roads.

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65. A Canal Boom

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The Canal Boom
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Canal = an artificial channel filled with water that connects two bodies of water.

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Thomas Jefferson

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New Yorkers wanted to connect their rivers, the Mohawk River and Hudson River with the Great Lakes. The only way to do that was to dig a series of canals about 350 miles long.

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New Yorkers wanted to connect their rivers, the Mohawk River and Hudson River with the Great Lakes. The only way to do that was to dig a series of canals about 350 miles long.

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Dewitt Clinton
Governor of New York

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Dewitt Clinton
Governor of New York

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Building the Erie Canal

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To make the job go quicker, a
stump-puller was developed.

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Building the Erie Canal
An Instant Success

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Even though some people though it couldn’t (or shouldn’t) be done, New York Governor, DeWitt Clinton convinced people to go ahead with the Erie Canal project. When it was finished, it was a great success.
Governor Dewitt Clinton
Celebrates the Opening of
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