National Road - Nat Geo article (38 pts)

National Road was also called (1 pt)

• National Passage

• National Turnpike

• Cumberland Pass

• Cumberland Turnpike

President ​ (a)   promoted the road to ​ (b)   and ​ (c)   . (3 pts)

• Jefferson
• Adams
• support expanding west
• unify the United States
• working with Natives

Popularity of the National Road ​ (a)   in the ​ (b)   ; a popular route for ​ (c)   wagons that ​ (d)   a thriving ​ (e)   trade. (5 pts)

• soared
• 1840s
• Conestoga
• encouraged
• commercial

The ​ (a)   , with the rise in ​ (b)   , the National Road lost its ​ (c)   , (3 pts)

• 1870s
• railroads
• appeal

The ​ (a)   revived interest in the road, and ​ (b)   funds increased to develop the federal roadway. The ​ (c)   highway system grew. (3 pts)

• automobile
• federal
• interstate

Reorder the following about the Cumberland Road (5 pts)

• “the road that built a nation.”

• became known as

• in 1926, the Cumberland Road was incorporated

• into Interstate 40, which runs coast to coast.

• “the Main Street of America,”

Read the following statement, afterwards tell me what year you think they are talking about?

By the middle of the century, the United States' first national highway ran from Cumberland, Maryland,

to St. Louis, Missouri.

Construction of a ​ (a)   road sparked ​ (b)   but ​ (c)   approved it, however. Many statesmen could not justify the expense, ​canals and rivers had proven to be efficient for transport. (3pts)

• federal
• controversy
• Congress

Construction of a federal road sparked ​controversey but ​Congress approved it, however. Many ​ (a)   could not justify the ​ (b)   , ​canals and rivers were​ (c)   for transport. (3pts)

• statesmen
• expense
• efficient

The ​Erie Canal was an early exception; it was ​ (a)   by the state of ​ (b)   even though other ​ (c)   benefited.​ (3 pts)

• funded
• New York
• states