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