Worksheet # 68 Questions Home

Turnpike Gravel John Fitch Erie Boiler

Floating Palaces Explosions Macadam Toll Corduroy Roads

1) What the three-story steamboats were called, once they added restaurants,

gambling rooms and places to sleep:______________.

2) Road named for long wooden poles that were moved to let people through:_________.

3) What people had to pay in order to use these roads:______________.

4) A canal that stretched 350 miles to the Hudson River in northern New York:___________.

5) The small rocks that formed a bottom layer of a road in order to let rainwater

drain off:______________.

6) Inventor who displayed his steam-powered ferry at the Constitutional Convention

of 1787:_________________.

7) The name for roads in swampy areas, built from sawed logs:__________________.

8) A new type of material that made roads smoother and stronger:______________.

9) Piece of equipment that heats the water which powers a steamboat:____________.

10) Why steamboats were rather dangerous in the 1800s:_________________.

Thought Question: How did new roads and canals help America become wealthier

and more unified as a nation?