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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 |