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U.S. History Chapter 13: Industrial Growth in the North Section 3: The Transportation Revolution

U.S. History Chapter 13: Industrial Growth in the North Section 3: The Transportation Revolution. Entry Task. Think of something that has been invented in your lifetime, that has made life easier. What is it and how did it make life easier. 1999-2013

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U.S. History Chapter 13: Industrial Growth in the North Section 3: The Transportation Revolution

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  1. U.S. HistoryChapter 13: Industrial Growth in the NorthSection 3: The Transportation Revolution

  2. Entry Task • Think of something that has been invented in your lifetime, that has made life easier. What is it and how did it make life easier. • 1999-2013 • Quick share (I’m looking at you Wilson brothers!)

  3. New Ways to Travel • Transportation Revolution • Period of rapid growth in the speed & convenience in travel • Created a boom in business

  4. New Ways to Travel • Roads, canals built • New inventions • Steamboat • Railroad

  5. New Ways to Travel • Shipping times reduced • 1817: shipping cargo from Cincinnati, OH to New York, NY took two months • 1850s: One week

  6. New Ways to Travel • Shipping costs reduced • Overland: $100 to ship a load of goods by land across NY state • Canal: $5

  7. The Steamboat • Steamboat: one of the first breakthroughs of the transportation revolution • Robert Fulton: inventor who developed a steam-powered boat

  8. The Steamboat • 1803: tested a steamboat in France • Clermont: full-sized commercial steamboat Fulton demonstrating his steamboat to Napoleon Bonaparte

  9. The Steamboat • Advantages: • Move quickly against the current • Did not rely on wind power • Shorter travel time, reduced costs

  10. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) • Thomas Gibbons: operated a steamboat between NJ & Manhattan using a federal license • Did not have a state license from NY

  11. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) • Aaron Ogden: had been granted a monopoly on the steamboat business by NY state • Ogden sues Gibbons • Supreme Court rules in favor of Gibbons • Assertion of Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce • Federal law overruled state law Aaron Ogden

  12. American Railroads • 1800s: Steam-powered trains developed in Britain • 1830: Peter Cooper builds the Tom Thumb Peter Cooper

  13. American Railroads • Steam-powered trains became popular after Cooper raced the Tom Thumb against a horse-drawn railcar

  14. American Railroads • 1840: 2000 miles of track laid • Engineers built faster, more powerful locomotives • Accidents common because engineers would travel too fast

  15. American Railroads • 1860: 30,000 miles of track laid • Shipping goods to distant markets • Helped cities grow

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