| A | B |
| Great Wagon Road | Pioneer route used in Pennsylvania to get to the West |
| Cumberland Gap | Daniel Boone's trail into Kentucky |
| Ohio River | Route taken by many to get to Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois |
| 1792 through 1819 | time period where 8 new states joined the Union |
| Lancaster Turnpike | Road which linked Philadelphia and Lancaster Pennsylvania in the 1790s |
| turnpikes | toll roads |
| corduroy roads | made of logs set side by side |
| National Road | Government built road from Maryland to Virginia |
| 23 weeks | round trip time of a boat trip from Pittsburg to New Orleans |
| Robert Fulton | Built steam powered boat which traveled from NYC to Albany(300mi) in 62 hours |
| Clermont | Name of Fulton's steamboat |
| Henry Shreve | he designed the flat-bottomed steamboat |
| canal | channel dug by people and filled with water to allow ships to cross a stretch of land |
| Erie Canal | Man-made channel from Buffalo NY to Albany NY |
| De Witt Clinton | Promoter of the Erie Canal |