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The nickname William Henry Harrison earned by being victorious over the Native Americans at the Battle of a Creek of the same name.
What is Old Tippecanoe?
The lake where the Mississippi River begins.
What is Lake Itasca?
An important route between the frontier of Tennessee and Kentucky and New Orleans.
What is the Natchez Trace Parkway?
In 1807 he piloted a steamboat up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany.
Who is Robert Fulton?
A system of dots and dashes that represents letters.
What is Morse Code?
The disease Harrison died from, after giving a speech in the cold rain.
What is pneumonia?
The Gulf where the Mississippi River ends.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This public service-related purpose is why the US negotiated a treaty with the Chickasaw, and Choctaw tribes regarding the use of the Natchez Trace.
What is a mail route?
The first steamboat to travel on the Mississippi.
What is The New Orleans?
A famous artist, inventor, photographer, and politician born in 1791.
Who is Samuel Morse?
The number of months that Harrison held the office of President before dying.
What is one month?
These are the animals that moved barges before steam boats moved them.
What are horses/mules/oxen?
This plant can be found in Natchez and has no roots to receive water.
What is Spanish Moss?
The person in charge of the entire steamboat crew.
Who is the Captain?
This is the number of wires that Morse wanted his telegraph to use, rather than the standard 26.
What is one?
The name John Tyler's political enemies called him.
What is "His Accidency"?
A large flat container that holds goods.
What is a barge?
A document that William Johnson kept over 16 years that was a source of information about the lifestyle of free blacks in the antebellum South.
What is William Johnson's diary?
These people loaded and unloaded cargo on a steamboat.
Who are deck hands?
The first formal message sent by Samuel Morse on the Baltimore to Washington telegraph line.
What is "What Hath God Wrought!"?