Chapter 10.4 Questions
IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVEL
DIRECTIONS:
Answer the following questions on a blank piece of note book paper.
Each question is worth 1 point. Write
your name, date and class period on each page.
When you are done, work on your vocab list, workbook or map .
New Roads and Turnpikes
____________1. By 1833, what was the number one means of
transportation in the big cities?
____________2. Traveling overland would be most efficient
if what conditions were good?
____________3. Were most roads at this time paved or not?
____________4. Who where the ones who would build most of
the road networks?
____________5. What are tolls?
____________6. Where do we get the term, turnpike?
____________7. What was more expensive to ship, a commodity
overland or across the Atlantic?
____________8. How long did a 4 horse drawn wagon take from
Massachusetts to South Carolina?
____________9. Did the road system at this time help unite
the nation?
____________10. Who authorized the construction of the
Cumberland Road?
____________11. What was another
name for the Cumberland Road?
____________12. What were the final destinations that make
up the National Road?
____________13. The National Road was constructed of what
type of material?
____________14. Is the National Road still in use today?
Canals
____________15. Moving goods by water was less expensive
& easier but how were they similar to roads?
____________16. The main purpose of building canals was to
do what?
____________17. What did people use to tow barges up and
down the canals?
____________18. A mule pulling goods along the canals could
pull how much weight?
____________19. De Witt Clinton persuaded whom to build a
canal from the Hudson River to Lake Erie?
____________20. What canal became the most attractive
passage from Atlantic Coast to the Great Lakes?
____________21. Much of the Erie Canal was dug up by what
type of immigrants?
____________22. How long is the Erie Canal?
____________23. The canal’s toll charges dropped due to
what factor?
____________24. What encouraged other states to start
building similar canals?
____________25. Unlike roads, what did the canals
accomplish for the U.S. at this time?
____________26. What was one advantage of canal in light of
transportation?
Steamboats
____________27. What was two major disadvantage of the
canal system?
____________28. Who invented the steam engine?
____________29. Steam engines replaced what 3 major sources
of power used prior?
____________30. The first steamboat in the U.S. was first
used in what river?
____________31. Were the first attempts to commercialize
steamboats successful?
____________32. Who were most fascinated with the
steamboats?
Railroads
____________33. Who won the race between the horse and the
steam driven locomotive?
____________34. What was the major advantage of railroads
vs. roads or canals?
____________35. Give 2 results of the Transportation
Revolution.