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How fast could a steamboat travel?
40mph
Riverboat with a stream powers engine that could travel up or downstream?
A steamboat is a riverboat with a steam powered engine that could travel up or down stream.
The steamboat was an improvement over barges because it could?
Travel upstream
Who revolutionized steamboat travel?
Robert Fulton revolutionized steamboat travel
Riverboat with a stream powers engine that could travel up-or downstream?
A riverboat with a steam powered engine that could travel either upstream or downstream was called a steam boat.
How was the steamboat important to the growth of America?
the steamboat allowed people to travel up rivers, so trade didnt have to go down the mississippi. you could head upstream, and bring goods to other states.
What limited the travel of steamboat on the red river?
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What was an effect of Robert Fulton's development of steamboat travel?
River transport before the steamboat was extremely slow. Often times on canals of in rivers, barges of goods were pulled by oxen on land. The steamboat increased water transportation immensely. Cargo and people could navigate waterways and sea coasts, where as in the past this was tedious compared to steamboat power.
What was an effect of robert fultons development of steamboat travel?
River transport before the steamboat was extremely slow. Often times on canals of in rivers, barges of goods were pulled by oxen on land. The steamboat increased water transportation immensely. Cargo and people could navigate waterways and sea coasts, where as in the past this was tedious compared to steamboat power.
What is the name of the man who revolutionized steamboat travel?
Robert Fulton
With the invention of the rivers were no longer just for travel downstream?
steamboat
With the invention of the rivers were no longer just for travel downstream.?
steamboat
