Steamboat and Canal
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Caitlin Irwin
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Steamboat and Canal
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Before the Steamboat
Before steamboats, farmers built flatboats that floated downriver to carry their goods to sell.
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Once they reached their destination, farmers sold the wood from their boats and then walked back home—sometimes over hundreds of miles—because the flatboats could not travel back upstream.
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Multiple Choice
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Steamboat
By 1800, the steam engine had been invented. The steam engine burned wood or coal to heat water that then turned into steam.
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Multiple Choice
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A steam engine would turn large wheels and give the boat the power it needed to go upstream.
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It took sailing ships four days to make a 150 mile trip. A steamboat could complete the trip in only a day and a half.
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Multiple Choice
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The Erie Canal
A canal connects two bodies of water. The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes, to the Hudson River in New York State.
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Huge Job
Digging the Erie Canal was a big job. Thousands of people worked on
it for several years. The canal was more than three hundred miles long.
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The Erie Canal made it possible for more people to go west and for farmers out west to send their crops east, to New York City.
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Other goods could be sent by canal to New York City too. New York City grew quickly, thanks in part to the Erie Canal.
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Because of the Erie Canal
People and goods were able to travel faster.
Cities in New York grew because of the canal traffic.
Native Americans were forced to leave their lands so that the canal could be built.
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Open Ended
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Open Ended
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Steamboats
Steamboats traveled faster and could carry more than flatboats and rafts. They helped cities and
towns along the Mississippi grow and helped the United States become economically strong.
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Open Ended
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