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Key Vocabulary Related to Historical Transportation and Infrastructure

This chapter presents essential vocabulary related to modes of transportation and infrastructure, including terms like "toll," "turnpike," "stagecoach," and "canal." It explains historical concepts such as the fee required to travel on certain roads, the use of large covered wagons for passengers and cargo, and different types of boats like flatboats, keelboats, and steamboats. Additionally, it covers the roles of financiers and the components of rail systems, such as the flange and terminus, enriching our understanding of historical travel.

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Key Vocabulary Related to Historical Transportation and Infrastructure

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  1. Chapter 9 Vocabulary

  2. a fee charged for the use of a road toll

  3. a road that travelers had to pay a fee (toll) to use; the swinging barrier called a pike was turned when the toll was paid to allow access turnpike

  4. a large covered wagon that carried passengers, luggage, and mail along the roads stagecoach

  5. suitable for a boat to sail on navigable

  6. a shallow place to cross a stream or river ford

  7. a large boat used to carry people and cargo across a river ferry

  8. a waterway that joins one river or body of water to another canal

  9. a raft guided with an oar used to transport people and goods downstream; the flatboat was moved by pushing poles into the river bottom flatboat

  10. a boat that had a bow and a keel and that was powered by pushing long poles into the water; could travel upstream keelboat

  11. a large boat carrying huge cargoes and many passengers that was powered by a steam engine steamboat

  12. one who provides the funds for an undertaking financier

  13. a rim on a rail that kept the wheels of locomotives and cars on the track flange

  14. the last station at the end of a railroad line terminus

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