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for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of 4 -17.)
The Pictures:
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Tips
for completing the map:
Students should work from the finished map shown on the Internet support site or from our overhead transparency map collection. Emphasize neatness from the beginning! This map shows some of the most famous roads that took Americans westward during the first half of the 19th century. It also shows the Erie Canal. Remind students that it does not show all the roads or canals of the period. Students should draw each route very lightly at first,
and check carefully to be sure they have it in the right position.
Then they can go over the route again to darken the color and make it more
visible.
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A carriage on a road of the early 1800s. When it rained, carriages
sometimes got stuck in the mud, and passengers might be asked to get out
and help push.
A steamboat like those that traveled the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. 