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Steamboats on the Red

Steamboats on the Red. Invented in 1700s Travel was dangerous James Watt-engine 1 st steamboat-John Fitch 1 st working steamboat-Robert Fulton Carried mostly freight in ND. Steamboat Facts:. Paddlewheel-bicycle wheel 40 feet long 5-8 mph Ruled trade in 1800s and early 1900s

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Steamboats on the Red

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  1. Steamboats on the Red

  2. Invented in 1700s • Travel was dangerous • James Watt-engine • 1st steamboat-John Fitch • 1st working steamboat-Robert Fulton • Carried mostly freight in ND Steamboat Facts:

  3. Paddlewheel-bicycle wheel • 40 feet long • 5-8 mph • Ruled trade in 1800s and early 1900s • Demise-railroad

  4. freight - supplies and equipment Vocabulary

  5. Rival-someone you are against

  6. Barge-flat boat

  7. Frontier-land that is unexplored

  8. Cheapest-lowest cost

  9. Dismantle-take it apart

  10. Shallow-not very deep

  11. Monopoly-no other one like it Oil monopoly-one owner

  12. Fireboat-Native American term for steam-boat.

  13. Merchant-store owner

  14. Meandering-goes where it wants

  15. Mackinaw-early boat

  16. Metis-French man marries a Native American

  17. Chapters 1-2 Steamboats on the Red > > > Video

  18. Discuss worksheet: • Northrup 1909 $1000 • Freight money water • $26,000 cheapest • Hudson Bay Company 1859

  19. Engineers • Buoyance Density • 6” by 8” aluminum foil • 5 minutes • Test run

  20. Writing-You are the captain of the steamboat going up the Red River. • Inquiry- You must turn the steamboat around: 40 feet in a 25 foot space use blocks and practice. Draw a diagram. • You are a passenger on the steamboat-Write about your trip up the Red River.

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