Transportation in the North and South

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Across
  1. 3. This Congressman supported internal improvements to help factory owners ship their goods to faraway customers.
  2. 4. This route connected new western states with the East.
  3. 6. Monroe believed that spending money on internal improvements was ______________.
  4. 7. The ____________ was the first waterway to connect Central Plains farmland with East Coast cities.
  5. 9. Many plantations had _______, where slaves loaded cotton bales onto steam-powered riverboats.
  6. 12. These ships cut ocean travel time in half and increased Northern trade with foreign ports.
  7. 14. This president vetoed a bill that would allow states to build more roads.
  8. 15. The most important Southern product shipped by water
  9. 18. This Southern port became one of the South's biggest cities due to the cotton boom.
  10. 19. __________ are man-made waterways that connect existing bodies of water
Down
  1. 1. This man demonstrated the practicality of steamboats by racing the Clermont on the Hudson River.
  2. 2. The South had only ___ thousand miles of rail lines by 1860.
  3. 4. Most of the rail lines were in the _________________.
  4. 5. True or false: Southerners needed roads and canals to connect settlements and shipping ports.
  5. 8. Steam-powered _______________ traveled faster than steamboats and could go anywhere tracks could be laid.
  6. 10. Southerners __________ bills in Congress that would use federal funds for internal improvements.
  7. 11. Southerners traveled and shipped goods on ____________ due to their slow current and broad channels.
  8. 13. The North's biggest business by the 1840s.
  9. 16. Roads and canals are ___________ improvements.
  10. 17. Riverboats in the South traveled ______________ to port cities like Savannah, GA and Mobile, AL.