1. CHAPTER 12:
The North
Section 3:
The Transportation Revolution

2. THE OLD WAYS
 People moved by foot , horse, or sail
 Transportation Revolution – Time
of rapid growth in speed and
convenience of travel because of new
inventions

3. THE STEAMBOAT
 Robert Fulton designed the first
working steamboat
 Named the Clermont
 Many called it “Fulton’s Folly”

4. THE STEAMBOAT
 Used steam power to travel up the
Hudson River

5. River Steamboats

6. THE RAILROAD
 Peter Cooper built a locomotive
called the Tom Thumb

7. THE RAILROAD
 Raced it against a horse

8. Early
Locomotives

9. THE RAILROAD
 1860 -
30,000 miles of
tracks
 All major
cities in the
east were
linked

10. THE RAILROAD
BRINGS CHANGES
 Freight could be hauled faster and
cheaper
 U.S. economy and industry grew

11. THE RAILROAD
BRINGS CHANGES
 People had access to goods from
all markets
 Towns grew along railroad
junctions

12. THE RAILROAD
BRINGS CHANGES
 Most track was
in the North

13. Train Wrecks

14. The Steam Engine

15. FUELING THE
CHANGES
 First wood was used to burn

16. FUELING THE
CHANGES
 Then coal
 4 times the energy