Steamboats are now casinos and used for tours up the Mississippi River. I was on one a few years ago that was used for banquets and parties.
It affects bcuz there are steamboats and cruise ships today
No steamboats
use your book
a revolution in transportation on western rivers
The steamboats were invented to traveling on water much faster and much more efficientally. Before the steamboats, the people had to use clipper ships which were very fast but it depended on wind so it was hard to control the direction. The invention of the steamboats also went upstream so the boat traveled both upstream and downstream.
There are no perfect rhymes for the word steamboats.
The use of steamboats on major US rivers soon followed Fulton's success. In 1811 the first in a continuous line of river steamboats left the dock at Pittsburgh to steam down the Ohio River to the Mississippi and on to New Orleans
Wind powered (i.e., sailing) vessels.
Steamboats cost a lot of money to maintain
Steamboats were faster than sail boats.
Steamboats are used to carry good and large products
because it was time before they didn't know NORMAL steamboats but......a normal steamboat is still a steamboat