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| Moving West | show 🗑
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| show | 1) needed good inland roads 2) private companies built toll roads & turnpikes 3) travelers paid fees to help with construction 4) roads had a base of crushed stone 5) "corduroy roads" logs laid side by side 6) Ohio became a state 1803
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| show | 7) 1806 Congress financed a national road, but it took 5 yrs. to decide where it went 8) first section was from Maryland to Wheeling 1818 9) reached through Ohio to Vandalia, IL 10) national road viewed as a military necessity
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| show | 11) contributed to the growth of Cincinnati & Louisville 12) 1850 - 700 steamboats in the U>S>
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| show | 1) river routes - existing river systems 2) De Witt Clinton - wanted to link NYC to Great Lakes 30 Canal linked Albany (on the Hudson River) with Buffalo on lake Erie
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| show | 1)Erie Canal no steamboats at first 2)steamboats would damage the earthen banks 3) mules & horses pulled barges & boats 4) 2 horse teams pulled 100 ton barge 24 miles a day 5)1840's canal banks were reinforced for steam tugboats
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| show | 1) moved west in waves 2) began in 1790's 3)4 new states - 1791 - 1803 Ohio, Vermont, KY, Tennessee 4) 2nd wave 1816 - 1821 5 states IN, IL, MS, AL, MO 5) dramatic growth west of the Appalachian Mts. 6) OH population 1800 - 45,000 1820 - 581,000
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