The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . our people made greatimprovements. The Baltimoreclipper, a schooner with rakingmasts—that is, masts that slantedbackward—was famous for its frigates gained advantages inthe War of 1812 by being better sailers than the Englishmen-of-war. At a later period the American clipper-built ships were the swiftest sailing-vessels in the the invention of the steam-engine in England,attempts were made in France, Scotland, and Americato build boats that would go by steam. But Robert Fulton, an American, b
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . our people made greatimprovements. The Baltimoreclipper, a schooner with rakingmasts—that is, masts that slantedbackward—was famous for its frigates gained advantages inthe War of 1812 by being better sailers than the Englishmen-of-war. At a later period the American clipper-built ships were the swiftest sailing-vessels in the the invention of the steam-engine in England,attempts were made in France, Scotland, and Americato build boats that would go by steam. But Robert Fulton, an American, built the first reallysuccessful steamboat. This boat,the Clermont, was launched in1807, and ran between NewYork and Albany, to the greatwonder of all who saw soon after took theplace of keel-boats on the West-ern rivers, and they greatly aided in the rapid develop-ment of settlements in the new country. Steamboats served for commerce and travel wherethere were rivers and lakes. But how should the trafficon the Western rivers and the Great Lakes be connected. / STEAMBOAT, RAILROAD, AND TELEGRAPH. 279 with the rivers east of the Alleghany Mountains and thesea? Canals, long used in Europe, were thought of forthis purpose, and Washington was much interested in aproposed canal from the Potomac to the Ohio the first great canal in this countr} was that fromthe Hudson River to Lake Erie. The chief promoter ofthis work was De Witt Clinton, Governor of New was eight years in construction. It was begun on the4th of July, 1817, and in 1825 its completion was cele-brated by a procession of boats from Lake Erie to theocean, where Governor De Witt Clinton poured a kegof Lake Erie water into the sea, as a sign of their canal, by opening a trade with the West, madeNew York the greatest city of the United States. But, for the more mountainous countrv of the Middle The Road. States, a great National Road for wagons was plannedand built from western
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