Roads & Canals
Post Industrial Revolution
Pre-Industrial Revolution
Steamboats
Railroads
100
Cumberland road spanned from which two states
Maryland to Illinois
100
what did trains and steamboats set up 
basic forms of transportation
100
What were one way that people transported things before the industrial revolution?
Horse Drawn wagons
100
Use of steam boats
Carry supplies or passengers across water.
100
when was the first railroad created
1828
200
where did canals begin and what did they do there  
Midlands and northwest, which opened up new markets for the growing industry
200
one bad effect of new transportation
climate change
200
years rapid increase occurred during
1700-1750
200
Demonstrated the first steam boat but was not successful 
John Fitch
200
In 1828 how many miles were of railroad tracks were put down
30,000 miles 
300
Some were linked to canals through tunnels
Coal Mines
300
what decreased as the usage of trains, canals, steamboats, etc, increased
cost of shipping raw materials
300

what were Britain's most valued transportation system 

rivers
300
Made the first successful Steamboat 
Robert Fulton
400
Year the Erie canal was finished
1825
400
what were factories able to produce more of and what did this result in 
raw goods/ raw goods became cheaper and quicker to make
400
Families were ________ due to not wanting to be far from their homes
selfsuffient
400
helped developed whose economies
western and southern
400
Why did the financiers fear railroads 
They feared they would loose their money from the erie canal traffic
500
What was the Erie canal between and what did it do 
Lake Erie and Hudson river// shortened the expense of time and time of transportation
500
one  thing that came out of the Industrial Revolution that benefited the society?

More job opportunities

500
what did the rapid in industrial production result in 
improved transport system
500
using the steamboat made concerns for ________ and ________ decrease

weather and water current

500
what often happened to railroads due to being poorly constructed
they would set fire
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