It made it harder
It made it harder
It made it harder
It made it harder
They used it to go to the Appalachian Mountains
the cumberland gap was the name of the trail that the settlers used to travel west
Daniel Boone lead settlers through the 'Cumberland Gap' to forge the 'Wilderness Trail' to open up travel to the west.
The wilderness road :)
Steamboats couldn't travel the Appalachian mountains because steamboats rely on waterways for propulsion, and the Appalachian mountains are a land barrier without navigable rivers or bodies of water suitable for steamboat travel. Steamboats require a continuous water route with minimal elevation changes to operate efficiently, and the rugged terrain of the Appalachian mountains presented insurmountable obstacles for steamboat navigation. As a result, alternative modes of transportation such as trains and wagons were used to transport goods across the Appalachian mountains.
if you were in the great plains and wanted to travel to the Appalachian mountains,you would go mostly-
Yes it is true that the Cumberland Road and the Erie Canal improved early American travel.
true
Stuart C. Cumberland has written: 'The Queen's highway from ocean to ocean' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Description and travel