It took this long to travel from Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
What is 23 days or 3 weeks?
100
This innovator built steam powered ships that traveled on the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and New Jersey.
Who is John Fitch?
100
This city was known as the Gateway to the West.
What is Pittsburg?
100
This boat was used to move people, goods and animals, downstream. When the travels reached their destination the boats were taken apart and used for building and firewood.
What is a flatboat?
100
This waterway flows all the way down to New Orleans.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
This is the first long distance paved road in the United States.
What is the Philadelphia-Lancaster Turnpike?
200
This Pittsburg native was known as King of the Keelboat Men. He passed the time by boasting about his greatness.
Who is Mike Fink?
200
This town was the sight where ships were built during the War of 1812.
What is Erie Pennsylvania?
200
This boat could be steered and pushed upstream. The bottom was rounded.
What is a keelboat?
200
This Pennsylvania canal followed rivers through the mountains and hills.
What is the Pennsylvania Mainline Canal?
300
These were built along the National Road.
What is an Inn, Trading Post, and Town?
300
He was born in Reading, but is know best for blazing a trail through The Cumberland Gap.
Who is Daniel Boone?
300
This town was created at the base of the mountains and had shops there to repair trains.
What is Altoona?
300
These large wind powered boats carried cargo across oceans and lakes.
What is a sailboat?
300
These bridges carried canals over valleys and rivers.
What is an aqueduct?
400
These manmade waterways shortened the trip from Philadelphia to Pittsburg to 4 days.
What is a canal?
400
This former jeweler built the first steamboat that went down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans.
Who is Robert Fulton?
400
Poor immigrants from this European country came to the United States and helped build the canals and railroads.
What is Ireland?
400
This boat used steam to push its way up and down rivers.
What is a steamboat?
400
This large body of fresh water was the site of a battle that gave control of it to the United States.
What is Lake Erie?
500
This powerful "machine" shortened the journey to Pittsburg from Philadelphia to only 12 hours!
What is the steam engine?
500
This Commander led his crew to victory against the British and won control of the Great Lakes.
Who is Oliver Perry?
500
Immigrants from this country had easier lives than the Irish, since they were either educated or had a skilled trade they could perform.
What is Germany?
500
These craftsmen were the ones who built the boats.
What is a shipwright?
500
This river was used by John Fitch to carry people from Philadelphia to New Jersey on his steam ship.