The Yellow Stone Steamboat

1.In 1820, the first steamboat sailed on the Great Lakes, as well as on the Detroit River. What was this vessel called?

By the late 1830s, the Chattahoochee River was used as an industrial power source for textile

Have you ever needed easier access to the essential items to stay alive? This is specifically what the residents of the North-East thought around the year 1817. Carol Sheriff argues in her book, “The Artificial River” that the residents of the canal corridor actively sought after long-distance trade and therefore consumer goods that markets brought to their homes. The fact that people supported the Erie Canal at all "suggests that at least some aspired to engage in broader market exchange" (p. 11). The transformation of this region because of the Erie Canal is organized around six topics, each of which is covered by a chapter. They include the; Visions of Progress, the Triumph of Art over Nature, Reducing Distance and Time, the Politics of Land and Water, the Politics of Business, and the Perils of Progress.

Improvements in communication and transportation became apparent in the nineteenth century due to the expansion of the textile, mining and metallurgy industries. By the middle of the nineteenth century, communication was transformed by the invention of the electronic telegraph and the transatlantic cable, which “Established instant communication between the old and new worlds.” (p. 413) Transportation was also transformed by canal and road building, as well as the introduction of locomotives and steamboats.

When Davis’ company was travelling, they did most of their traveling to and from countries by using train box cars. These cars were often times only big enough for your pack and not much else. However, once they would arrive in the

The first steamboat, which came to be known as the Clermont, was constructed by Robert Fulton in 1807. This development in transportation was huge. People could now ride rivers upstream as well as downstream, regardless of winds, waves, or tides. Steamboats were an important invention because they played a vital role in the opening of the West and the South, both of which had many easily navigable rivers. Towns soon began to develop along the banks of often-traversed rivers. Now farmers could ship in and out their produce and any manufactured necessities at a much lower cost.

Before the Civil War there were things that the North and the South needed to use to move things around the place. There are two things that were most important. The train that was the most important was the R.R locomotive and the man that made that was Richard Trevithick. They moved the steal and other things on the rail and the R.R was used in the North more than the South. They also used boats. Since they did not have steam boats, they used row boats. The guy that made the steam boats was John Fitch. They used the steam boats to carry cotton up and down the rivers. They used trains and steam boats to move cotton and steal during the

Water travel was not the only way of travel revolutionized during the Market Revolution. Land travel was greatly improved by the first railroad being built in the late 1820’s. It was a quicker, cheaper, and much easier way of transporting goods. Railroads could get you from one place to another in a very short amount of time, therefore being “very pleasant to people in a hurry.” (280). In the 1840’s, there was the same length of railroads as there was canals, therefore

Internal improvements, or infrastructure building, such as roads, canals, and harbor facilities, were needed in the southern and western parts of the U.S, to get the goods to market. The east had already built those facilities at their own expense, and the states that needed large capital investment to improve transportation lacked the funds to support them and seeked for federal assistance. Even though some states had already invested in internal improvements, they didn’t want to spend money on those facilities again. During the early 19th century, the federal government avoided the construction of internal improvements. In 1817, President Madison believed that a Constitutional amendment was required for the U.S. to improve or build roads

At that time the Mississippi River had become an important transport route for agricultural products west of the Appalachian Mountains in the

Rayona and her mother Christine grew up in different worlds but they are very similar in many ways. Christine faced various problems as a young child that are now being passed down to Rayona and she is now seeing how they are being affected by them. The novel “A Yellow Raft in Blue Water” walks us through Rayona’s coming of age story and the three perspectives that it is being told in, Rayona’s, Christine’s, and Ida’s. Although Rayona and Christine are very different, they both seem to be facing similar problems; they end up helping one another find their self identity and both are finally able to appreciate and understand one another.

Towards the end of the 1930s, the United States government was preparing itself to progress from one despondency to another. Because the Great Depression was nearing its final months and the threat of becoming involved in the European war continuously intensified, it was decided that substantial amounts of energy, along with an ascending budget, was to be focused on developing military boats that could haul soldiers from ships to open beaches. In New Orleans, Andrew Jackson Higgins was known for manufacturing Eureka Boats, or shallow-watercrafts that assisted in the exploration of oil and gas throughout the Louisiana bayous. After many failed attempts Higgins was able to adapt his design

A few days ago I went on the fastest steamboat in America! It is known as the Natchez. We left the school to head to the Natchez at ten in the morning. We arrived around Ten Forty-Five, but we did not start boarding until eleven. We immediately where sent to the dinning room for lunch. The menu was all New Orleans food, which was expected since it is a New Orleans boat. The food that was available was catfish, mashed potatoes, jambalaya, red beans and rice, and pasta salad, which is cold noodles and olives. In my opinion the food wasn't all that great but some of classmates really enjoyed the food. The drinks where water and ta but there was also alcohol for the adults. When we finished lunch

There was a need for this invention because of communication, trade, and travel. Ever since the steamboat communication could be sent more than one way out. Most

Next introduced were steamboats. Shipping by steamboats was cheaper and faster. If one used a wagon, there was the cost of lifting the cargo off the ground and keeping it there as well as the cost of moving the vehicle forward. A water vessel had the advantage of only having the cost of moving forward because the water lifted the cargo. The shallow draft steamboat, however, could carry large amounts of cargo even against the flow of a river. Robert Fulton's Clermont proved the practicality of steamboats in 1807. The Enterprise was introduced by Henry Shreve in 1814 and proved to be the answer to transportation across shallow western waters. By 1820, there were 60 steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and countless others elsewhere.