History Of Steamboats
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Activity Workbook - Student Edition - Your History Site
www.yourhistorysite.com★ ★★American History in Your Community★★★ DIRECTIONS: In the early 1800s people began moving across the coun-try in covered wagons and on steamboats. Research an early method of transportation used in your state. Draw a labeled diagram of the vehicle on a separate sheet of paper. Then answer the questions about it that follow. ★
Willamette River - Oregon
www.oregon.govhiStory For Oregonians, the “Beautiful Willamette” is more than just a lovely river. It is a key part of our col-orful history, a vital economic resource, and a place to recreate or relax – to enjoy the many virtues Oregon has to offer. The Willamette is one of the few major rivers in the U.S. that flows primarily north. So narrow and
LAKE LOUISA HISTORY AND NATURE STATE PARK
www.floridastateparks.orgHistory still resurfaces today. During the 2001 drought, when the lake level dropped, two prehistoric dugout canoes were found in Lake Louisa. Later that year, remnants of a crashed P-51 Mustang were also found. Flown by First Lieutenant Dean R. Gilmore of Pennsylvania, the plane was lost on a training flight on November 14, 1944.
Westward Expansion (after the Civil War)
resources.saylor.organd steamboats, and the opening by railroads of the interior east of the Mississippi River encouraged people to move. The federally financed National Road began in Baltimore in the 1810s, crossed the Appalachian Mountains, and reached Vandalia, Illinois, by 1850. States financed improvements such as New York’s famous