Transportation in the mid 1800's
Students will investigate Transportation in the mid 1800's and decide based on analysis of primary sources the preferred method of travel; Canals, National Road, Railroad, Steamship
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1Account of the First trip on a Steamship
Read from the 4th paragraph down
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fulton.htm
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2Passenger accomadations on a Steamship and picture
Read the 2nd paragraph and look at the picture. What was travel by steamship like?
http://www.gjenvick.com/SteamshipArticles/TransatlanticShipsAndVoyages/OceanPassengerTravel/1891/02-RoomOnTheEarlySteamers.html#axzz2jn0Xi4zm
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3Steamship Explosions
Read the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs.
http://tripsintohistory.com/2012/01/21/the-explosion-of-the-steamboat-pennsylvania-and-the-missing-engineer/
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4Steamship purposes
Read the 3rd paragraph and look at the pictures
http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bradytrilogy/memories/creston.html
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5National Road Picture
Look at the picture
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Wagon-Train-on-the-National-Road-Early-1800s-Posters_i4232350_.htm
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6National Road Diary
Read the short selections from a trip on the National Road
http://hti.osu.edu/sites/default/files/Journal_of_Jane_Voorhees_Lewis.pdf
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7National Road Information
Read the paragraph under The Solution then scroll down and read the first hand account of traveling on the National Road.
http://www.history-magazine.com/natroad.html
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8National Road Map
Look at the map and read the information about the National Road
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~firebird/Maps/images1818%20-%201838%20The%20National%20Road%20%28Cumberland%20Road%29.jpg
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9Anti-Railroad Poster
http://www.archives.gov/education/history-day/migration-history/images/anti-railroad-poster.gif
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10Information on Early Railroads
Read the 4th and 5th paragraphs
http://www.american-rails.com/early-railroads.html
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11More Information on Early Railroads
Read all the information and look at the pictures
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/transport/railroad.html
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12Early Rail Travel
http://railroad.lindahall.org/essays/rail-cars.html
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13Travel on the Erie Canal
Read the account from the 7th of May
http://eriecanal.org/texts/Mirror.html
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14Pictures of the Erie Canal
Select some picture collections to look at.
http://eriecanal.org/images.html
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15Erie Canal Reflections
http://hti.osu.edu/sites/default/files/Erie_Canal_Recollections_and_Reflections.pdf
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16Map of canals
http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch2en/conc2en/map_american_canals_19th.html
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17Erie Canal Song
http://www.eriecanalvillage.net/pages/song.html