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PA Early Industrial Growth and Development

PA Early Industrial Growth and Development. Chapter 4 Lesson 13 – Mountains of Pennsylvania Hinder Industrial Growth Lesson 14 – Canal Fever Lesson 15 – Steam Engine Fever, Railroads and Coal Lesson 16 – Iron and Oil Lesson 17 – Civil War Comes to PA. Vocabulary.

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PA Early Industrial Growth and Development

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  1. PA Early Industrial Growth and Development Chapter 4 Lesson 13 – Mountains of Pennsylvania Hinder Industrial Growth Lesson 14 – Canal Fever Lesson 15 – Steam Engine Fever, Railroads and Coal Lesson 16 – Iron and Oil Lesson 17 – Civil War Comes to PA

  2. Vocabulary • Canal System – transportation system people thought would be more effective than the Conestoga Wagon • Canal – a waterway dug through the earth to connect lakes and rivers • Portage – to carry or transport something over land for a distance • Aqueducts – special water bridges built to carry the canal across river • Locks – enclosure used in raising or lowering boats from level to level • Bankrupt – having little or no money

  3. Canal Fever • From 1828-1858, for a cost of more than $100,000,000, Pennsylvania built more canals than any other state • Building them nearly caused the state to go bankrupt Penn Main Line Canal • Philadelphia and Pittsburgh connection

  4. Canal Era

  5. Allegheny Portage Railroad • Between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown • Where canal boats were transferred from the canal to a railroad car where it was transported over the Allegheny Mountains • 36 miles long • Ran for 23 years Travel time: • Wagon – 6 weeks • Canal – 4 days

  6. Advantages of building canals: • Opened the western part of state to settlement • Promoted rapid growth of towns along their routes • Provided jobs • Encouraged economic growth

  7. Canals were faster and more profitable • Canal Fever cost state $100,000,000 • Nearly bankrupted the state building them • Railroads were used in places canals could not be built • ALLEGHENY PORTAGE – railroad over the Allegheny mountains • 2 sets of tracks – as one went up, the other went down • 37 miles long, taking 28 hours to go from Johnstown to Pittsburgh

  8. Problems with Building Canals • Tunnels had to be dug through hills • Aqueducts built to carry the canal across rivers • Dams built to supply canal with steady water • Locks built to raise or lower

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