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Chapter 10 Part 2 Review “Improved Transportation ”

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2 Chapter 10 Part 2 Review “Improved Transportation ”

3 the first public road in present day WV

4 Eastern Panhandle, from Winchester to Martinsburg Morgan Morgan’s home

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7 made it possible to carry large loads

8 Conestoga Wagon

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12 A form of transportation that was faster and more comfortable than the Conestoga wagon Stagecoach

13 Also called the Midland Trail

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15 Kanawha Turnpike ( U.S. 60)

16 Main route across western Virginia in the early 1800s James River and Kanawha Turnpike

17 connected Cumberland to Wheeling

18 National Road

19 Madonna of the Trail Statue on the National Road at the edge of Wheeling Park

20 Designed the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike Claudius Crozet

21 fee to use a road, to pay for the upkeep of the road

22 tolls

23 Swinging barrier on a toll road

24 pike

25 Rest stops for travelers and animals, became social centers

26 Old Stone House, Red Horse Tavern on the Northwest Turnpike Now U.S. 50

27 inns and taverns

28 In what ways was social class not observed in the early taverns in America? 1.Rooms were rented on a “first come, first served” basis 2.Rank was not observed 3.Accommodations were shared

29 social center at White Sulfur Springs

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33 Greenbrier Hotel

34 main means of crossing large rivers

35 ferries

36 Operated a ferry in the eastern panhandle Robert Harper

37 a shallow place to cross a stream or river ford

38 Raft with sides, could be covered, carried people or property, pushed by poles, traveled downstream

39 Flatboats

40 flatboat

41 Built because of problems with the ferry at the end of the National Road

42 Wheeling Bridge

43 Wheeling Suspension Bridge 1899

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49 Bow shaped to cut through water, keel made it possible to steer, powered by pushing poles, could go upstream

50 Keelboats

51 Keelboat

52 European development was being used by American Bridge designers and builders

53 Covered bridge Mud River- Milton Cabell County

54 Dents Run Monongalia County

55 Fish Creek Wetezel County

56 Indian Creek Monroe County

57 Locus Creek Pocahontas County

58 What two of Chenoweth’s bridges are still in use today?

59 Barrackville

60 Philippi

61 Barrackville - Philippi

62 WV’s premier bridge builder

63 Lemuel Chenoweth

64 Join one river with another

65 canal

66 James River and Kanawha Canal

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71 Could carry tons of goods, pulled by one mule, on the canal Barges

72 Large boats powered by steam engines, capable of going upstream and carrying large amounts of cargo and many passengers Steamboats

73 Developed his boat at Bath, Berkeley Springs Adapted the steam engine to water transportation

74 James Rumsey

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76 Shepherdstown

77 Rumsey Monument at Shepherdstown

78 Built the first steamboat with boilers on the first deck, creating a very shallow draft. He piloted the first steamboat upstream from New Orleans to Louisville Henry Shreve

79 In 1915 where could you walk across the Kanawha River?

80 Morgan’s Landing

81 his steamboat, The Clermont, was demonstrated from New York to Albany

82 Robert Fulton

83 one who provides the funds for an undertaking financier

84 Helped finance construction of steamboats to travel on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Financed Robert Fulton’s steamboat Nicholas J. Roosevelt

85 Was launched to ship goods on the Ohio and Miss. By Nicholas Roosevelt, The first steamboat to travel the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

86 “New Orleans”

87 Helped to keep cars on the tracks

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89 Steamboat built from timber of old Fort Henry

90 “Washington”

91 Rev. War officer, built a steam locomotive in New Jersey

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93 John Stevens

94 Built the steam engine Tom Thumb that raced the stagecoach

95 Peter Cooper’s steam engine, Tom Thumb, lost a race with a stagecoach when a belt broke

96 Peter Cooper

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98 railroad that existed in western Virginia before the Civil War B&O

99 Most outstanding engineering marvel of the B&O

100 Tunnel at Tunnelton

101 First horizontal boiler

102 “Lafayette”

103 Who laid the last stone in the B&O

104 Charles Carroll

105 the last station at the end of a railroad line terminus

106 Where the B&O terminated

107 Wheeling

108 B&O Railroad Building

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110 Three problems with ferries

111 Fees, interruptions, high water, dusk to dawn

112 Three problems with river travel

113 Falls, rapids, low water level

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117 suitable for a boat to sail on navigable

118 Advantages of RR over canals

119 Weather, froze in winter, limited to connecting rivers

120 Did not freeze, did not require close care like horses, could go anywhere

121 List the different roles that the B&O played in the development of WV

122 Economic development Helped North in Civil War Helped create towns


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