Roads
A road that is built over a river, lake, or other body of water.
What is a bridge?
The name of the famous stagecoach that was built in Concord, NH.
What is the Concord coach?
Canals are made from this natural body of water.
What are rivers?
One reason that railroads were preferable to boats, wagons, and stagecoaches.
What is they could carry more people and goods? OR What is they enabled people to travel greater distances in a shorter period of time?
The first large roads that linked communities together.
What are turnpikes?
One reason why stagecoaches made transportation easier.
What is because they allowed for people to travel larger distances in shorter amounts of time?
The name of the phenomenon that refers to people all over the country building canals.
Canal Fever
One reason that railroads were difficult to build.
What is they were expensive OR What is they took a long time to build OR What is because each town the railroad ran through needed to approve its construction ahead of time?
The people in charge of taking care of the town's roads.
Who are the residents of the town?
Why the stagecoaches built in Concord, NH became so popular.
What is because they could swing people gently back and forth instead of bouncing up and down?
How canals helped people travel.
What is by by helping boats go around waterfalls and linking rivers and lakes together?
The mode of transportation that came just before railroads.
What are canals?
The century (1600s, 1700s, 1800s, etc.) that turnpikes were invented.
What is the 1700s (or 18th century)?
The name of the company that built the famous stagecoaches in Concord, NH.
What is The Abbot-Downing Company?
The harbor that canals helped make navigable from Concord, NH.
What is Boston Harbor?
The country where railroads were invented.
What is Great Britain?
The turnpike built by the U.S. government to connect Virginia to Kentucky.
What is the National Road?
The largest stagecoaches could hold up to this many people.
What is 16?
The most famous canal in the United States.
What is the Erie Canal?
The name of the first railroad built in the United States.
What is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?