Canals, Steamboats, and the Early Transportation Boom

Westward Expansion and the Early Industrial Revolution

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Analyze how Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Erie Canal, and early steam locomotives integrated regional markets and lowered the cost of shipping goods.

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Westward Expansion and the Early Industrial Revolution

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-UT-SS

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Analyze the territorial growth of the United States, conflicts over land and slavery, and the technological innovations that revolutionized American industry and transportation.

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U.S. I Standard 6.3Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Students will identify the economic and geographic impact of the early Industrial Revolution’s new inventions and transportation methods, such as the Erie Canal, the transcontinental railroad, steam engines, the telegraph, the cotton gin, and interchangeable parts.