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Steamboats
Steam Trains
How Steam Engines Work
Effect of Transportation Revolution
100
Were steamboats faster or slower than regular boats?
Faster
100
What is the more advance name for a train?
Locomotive
100
What material is fed into a boiler that heats it up?
Water
100
What two inventions were the most responsible for the effects of the Transportation Revolution?
Steamboat and Steam Train (Locomotive)
200
What was the name of the first major successful steamboat invented?
The Clermont
200
What was an average steam train's top speed?
20 miles per hour
200
What does the steam push up to the top of its stroke?
Piston
200
What natural resource took the place of wood in the fueling business?
Coal
300
Tourism, travel, and business economies all boomed because of steamboats' ability to transport what two things quickly and cheaply?
People and goods
300
About how many miles of track had railroad companies laid by 1860?
About 30,000
300
After a given amount of cycles, does the cycle have to stop or can it just repeat over and over?
It repeats over and over.
300
The national economy gained more _________ because of the invention of steamboats and steam trains. Fill in the blank.
Stability
400
Conflicts over what arose because of the invention of steamboats?
Waterway rights
400
_________ built a train called the ________, which almost beat a _________. Fill in at least two of the blanks
Peter Cooper; Tom Thumb; Horse Drawn Rail Car
400
When the steam reaches the top, a ______ is opened in the side of the cylinder to vent out the steam. Fill in the blank.
Valve
400
The Transportation Revolution caused businesses to _____ and reduced shipping _____ and _____. Fill in every blank.
boom; time; costs