Thursday January 24 Review Inauguration Speech and the Transportation Revolution

Good Morning,

Please share your Inauguration speech with someone near you. After I'll ask a few to share their speech and ask "Why are Inauguration speeches so important?"

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UCCP US History Course 24 -The Transportation Revolution
Make Cornell notes to be able to answer the following questions (you may have to watch sections a couple times to develop an answer).

Answer the following questions in your IN (this is separate from your notes):

1. Why did settlers move west? How did the new law in 1820 encourage settlers to move west?
2. What was Chicago like in 1830?
3. How were Westerner's lives different after Cyrus McCormick's Mechanical Reaper and John Deere's steel plow?
4. How did the increase in crops lead to the Transportation Revolution?
5. Which paved highway was completed in 1794?
6. What was the Cumberland road?
7. What impact did steamboats have on transportation?
8. What is a canal?
9. Why was Thomas Jefferson skeptical of the Erie canal?



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10. Why did railroads open up the prairie to more settlement?

HOMEWORK:
Address this prompt: "Why or why not would you move West if you lived in the Eastern states in the early 1800's?" Provide specific examples to strengthen your argument.