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Moving West!
Chapter 12 / Section 2 / Page 392
LAND!
• People began moving west because they had dreams of new opportunities– Like owning inexpensive land with good soil
• Many people began moving west, including:– Cotton planters from the south– Cattle and sheep farmers from New England– Merchants and shopkeepers from the east
Conestoga Wagon: • Carried everything the families owned on their
journey west• When they arrived in the west two tools were most
important to their survival:– Long handled ax– Rifle
Pathways into the West:• Daniel Boone- lead a
group of 30 lumberers across the Cumberland Gap
• Boone’s party cleared the trail to central Kentucky
• This became known as the Wilderness Road
Transportation systems improve
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A Need:
• People wanted new speedy, cheap transportation systems to help move raw materials and factory goods to market
• In New York and Pennsylvania they began building a turnpike (a roadway which you must pay to travel on)
• To travel on these roads you had to pay a toll, or a small fee which was used to build new roads and help keep up existing ones
Demand for better roads:
• Settlers moving west demanded better roads because they:– Wanted the region to grow more rapidly– Wanted places in the west to gain statehood– Wanted to increase population– Wanted transportation to be quicker and less
costly
National Road:
• Government funded road that would aid in traveling west
• Construction was delayed because congress was not sure it was constitutional
• Once it was built is connected Cumberland MD to Wheeling WV
• This made it easier to travel in all kinds of weather
Depending on Waterways:• During the 1800’s waterways were still the main
form of transportation• Water transportation improved with the invention of
the Clermont- Robert Fulton’s steam boat
Canals• Canals were more
efficient then roads because it did not take as muck effort to transport goods
• A Canal is a channel dug out and filled with water to allow boats to cross a stretch of land
Erie Canal
• Designed by De Witt Clinton• Also called Clinton’s Ditch
