Class PPT

1. Bell Ringer
 What settled the border dispute between U.S. and British
Territory?
 Where was the border established?
 Which treaty established a clearly defined border between the
U.S. and New Spain?
 What did the Spanish agree to give the U.S. with this treaty?

2. Transportation and Trade in the Early
1800’s
Essential Question: What obstacles and political factors were involved in
the development of roads, canals, and railroads in America?
TN State Standard: 8.46

3. Building Roadways
 The U.S. needed an inland method of
transporting goods and travel.
 Private companies built “turnpikes” (toll
roads)
 After Ohio became a state in 1803, it asked
the federal government for a road to connect
it to the east
 In 1806, Congress approved the construction
of a national road to the West
 The national road followed a military route
developed by George Washington
 The national road went from Maryland to
Illinois and connected the Potomac and Ohio
Rivers

4. National Road Map

5. Traveling on Rivers
 Advantages- smoother ride, more
materials could be transported
 Disadvantages- traveling
downstream was easy, traveling
upstream was difficult
 The first steamboat was financed
by Robert Livingston and built by
Robert Fulton (The Clermont or
North River Steamboat)
 Steamboat travel made trade and
transportation much easier and
must faster

6. New Waterways
 Steamboat travel was limited
to major rivers and no river
linked the East to the West
 Business and government
officials planned to build a
canal (artificial waterway)
connecting the Hudson River
to the city of Buffalo on Lake
Erie
 This would be known as The
Erie Canal

7. The Erie Canal
 Many Irish immigrants were
used to build the 363 mile
canal
 A system of locks allowed the
water level to be raised or
lowered
 Many workers died of accidents
and disease
 The canal opened in 1825 and
allowed existing rivers and
lakes to be connected to a wide
area of the country

8. Canal Travel Expands
 At first the Erie Canal could not
support steamboats so horses
and mules bulled barges from
the bank
 By the 1840’s the canals were
strengthened to support
steamboats
 The U.S. had 3,600 miles of
canals by the 1840’s
 Canals lowered shipping costs
and brought successful
business to towns

9. Summarizer
 Twitter Post- In 140
characters or less,
summarize the main ideas of
the lesson

10. Extension Activity- Primary Source
Analysis
 Examine the primary source and answer the document based
questions based on the reading