Lesson 5.
How did transportation impact America in the 18th-19th century?
(could include post roads, steamboats, sailing ships, canals, RR)
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Tasks:
1. Compare travel by time, speed, etc.
2. Compare advantages and disadvantages of each form
3. Assume the role of a mayor of a small 19th c town. Write a letter expressing
the reasons why you hope to have new transportation for your city.
4. Pretend you are taking an trip on post roads,
sailing ships, canals, or RR in the 1800's describe your experience
5. Document your world. Keep a journal on trip that you take
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Documents
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Format |
Subject |
General travel |
Doc 14 Mrs. Child Condemns
the rage for travelling, |
text |
Excerpt from The
American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Child |
Doc 28 The jolly flat
boat men |
print |
painted by G.C. Bingham, |
Canal boat |
Doc 29 Erie Illustration |
illustration |
busy canal locks |
Doc 30 Old Erie canal |
photo |
also showing RR tracks |
Doc 31 Early Erie at Lockport |
photo |
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Doc 32 New Stage Boat Line |
Poster |
(May1,1815) Operating Between
Schenectady and Utica |
Post roads / wagon train |
Doc 2
Mrs. Mary Dewees's journal 1775 |
text |
Mary
Coburn Dewees traveled with her family by wagon, boat and foot from Philadelphia
to relocate in Lexington, Kentucky |
Doc 3
Notice for Post road carriage line |
news ad |
from Philadelphia paper 1788 |
Doc 5
Catherine "Kate" Cruikshank |
text |
detailed handwritten diary
describes their overland journey by horse team |
Doc 7. Interior
of John Bemmerly wagon |
Photograph |
,n.d..
[National Archives] pdf format Westward Expansion 1842-1912 |
Doc 8 Description of
crossing the plains |
text |
needs
editing |
Doc 9
List of provisions to
bring to Montana |
text |
needs
editing |
Doc 10
Francis Parkman
describes the Oregon Trail |
text |
The struggle of the overland journey |
Doc 12 Line of post coaches
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broadside timetable |
side 2 |
Doc 17 Route of the Mormon
pioneers |
illustrated map |
from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake, Feb'y
1846-July 1847. |
Doc 21 Camp 100 - Humbolt
[sic] River |
Drawing series |
sketches from pioneer heading west on wagon
train |
Doc 22 North Platte- wagons
on barges |
Drawing series |
sketches of pioneer heading west |
Doc 23 Chavis Creek, camp
14th |
Drawing series |
sketches of rough winter |
Doc 24 Crossing Cache la
Poudre Creek |
Drawing series |
sketches of fording river |
Doc 25 The dessert [e.g.
desert] |
Drawing series |
sketches of crossing desert |
Doc 33 Philadelphia Stage
Coach |
Etching |
From "Harper's New Monthly Magazine"
1814 |
Clipper Ships |
Doc 4
Poem written by Abiah Marchant |
text |
describing her experiences on
board the Ship MAGNOLIA on a passage to California |
Doc 6
Advertising cards featuring
clipper ships from mid
1800s.
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images |
Hornet or
David Crockett many more at Sailing
card collection |
Steamships |
Doc 1
The Steamboat Creole catches fire |
text |
danger of steam travel |
Doc 11
Splendid steamer Baltimore |
broadside timetable |
the wonder of the age |
Doc 15 The Record Of Some Famous
Trips. |
timetable |
steamship travel improves on the Mississippi |
Doc 16 Mark Twain describes a close
call |
text |
dangers of steam ships |
Doc 26 Interior of a steamboat cabin at
dinner time |
photo |
large, posh dinner with waiters |
Doc 27 A Mississippi River landing,
Memphis, Tenn. |
photo |
busy wharf , men, and ships |
Railroad |
Doc 18 Vt. Central railroad line.
Excursion routes ... [Boston 1869]. |
broadside poster |
railroad tourism |
Doc 19 Railroad Directory. New York,
1854 |
schedule and map |
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Doc 20 Steamer and RR |
broadside ad |
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Early Airship |
Doc 13
Wonderful, unprecedented, flying ship |
broadside |
Primitive
airship |