history

American museums were not entertaining...

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Peak of Canal Era

1817

In what year was the amount of mileage equal

1840

How many states did the national road travel through

6

First telegraph line

Baltimore to Washington DC

Mark Twain

Famous steamboat captain

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

First steam railroad commissioned in the US

The Erie Canal eventually connected

Great Lakes + Mississippi

Robert Fulton and Robert Livingstone

Invented the steamboat

What was a telegrapher

Person who sends and reads in morse code

steam powered paper production, steam driven presses, and the telegraph all helped create

The penny press

Francis Cabot Lowell

born around the time the US was

Francis Cabot Lowell brought innovation to

gun manufacturing

Canal Boats were operated by

steam power

canal lock

travel upstream