The document discusses the Transportation Revolution in the North. It describes how Robert Fulton designed the first successful steamboat, the Clermont, changing transportation from foot and horse to steam power on rivers. Peter Cooper then built the first locomotive, the Tom Thumb, beating a horse in a race and launching the railroad era. By 1860 there were over 30,000 miles of railroad tracks linking all major eastern cities and fueling economic and industrial growth across the North.

1. CHAPTER 12:
The North
Section 3:
The Transportation Revolution

2. THE OLD WAYS
 People moved by foot , horse, or sail
 Transportation Revolution – Time
of rapid growth in speed and
convenience of travel because of new
inventions

3. THE STEAMBOAT
 Robert Fulton designed the first
working steamboat
 Named the Clermont
 Many called it “Fulton’s Folly”

4. THE STEAMBOAT
 Used steam power to travel up the
Hudson River

5. River Steamboats

6. THE RAILROAD
 Peter Cooper built a locomotive
called the Tom Thumb

7. THE RAILROAD
 Raced it against a horse

8. Early
Locomotives

9. THE RAILROAD
 1860 -
30,000 miles of
tracks
 All major
cities in the
east were
linked

10. THE RAILROAD
BRINGS CHANGES
 Freight could be hauled faster and
cheaper
 U.S. economy and industry grew

11. THE RAILROAD
BRINGS CHANGES
 People had access to goods from
all markets
 Towns grew along railroad
junctions

12. THE RAILROAD
BRINGS CHANGES
 Most track was
in the North

13. Train Wrecks

14. The Steam Engine

15. FUELING THE
CHANGES
 First wood was used to burn

16. FUELING THE
CHANGES
 Then coal
 4 times the energy