Westward trails. (Geoskills).Want to trace some of America's earliest routes west? This map of the U.S. in the early 1800s shows the first major roads to be hacked out of the wilderness. What were these "roads" like? Most were dirt paths just wide enough for a horse and buggy The horse and buggy (in American English) or horse and carriage (in British English) refers to a light, simple two-person carriage drawn by one or two horses. It was made with two wheels in England and with four wheels in the United States. . The Mohawk Turnpike, for example, was an old Indian path that white settlers made into a wagon road. After the Revolutionary War, Americans loyal to the British cause used the Turnpike to cross into Canada. If you look at a road atlas A road atlas is a map or set of maps that primarily display roads and transport links rather than geographical information. Types Road Atlases come in many shapes, sizes and scales. , you will see that New York's Route 90 now extends across the old Mohawk Turnpike. Kentucky's Routes 11 and 25 cover much of Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road Wilderness Road, principal avenue of westward migration for U.S. pioneers from c.1790 to 1840, blazed in 1775 by the American frontiersman Daniel Boone and an advance party of the Transylvania Company. Feeders from the east (Richmond, Va. . Drive into history and learn more about these early roads by answering the following questions. QUESTIONS 1. Through which city on the map did the Coastal Post Road pass between Boston and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ? _____ 2. Through which states did the Seneca Road pass? _____ 3. Which two roads met in Richmond, Virginia Richmond IPA: [ɹɯʒmɐnɖ] is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. ? _____ 4. Which is the longest road on the map? _____ 5. Which roads would a settler take to travel from Raleigh to Boonesborough? 6. Which road crossed the Ohio River Ohio River Major river, eastern central U.S. Formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, it flows northwest out of Pennsylvania, and west and southwest to form the state boundaries of Ohio–West Virginia, Ohio-Kentucky, Indiana-Kentucky, and ? _____ 7. Which road closely followed 40[degrees]N latitude? _____ 8. Which two roads began at the Hudson River? _____ 9. Which road crossed the Cumberland Gap? _____ 10. If settlers took the Wilderness Road from Richmond to Boonesborough, about how many miles would they cover? _____ ANSWERS 1. Providence 2. New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio 3. The Wilderness Road and Coastal Post Road 4. The Coastal Post Road 5. The Coastal Post Road and the Wilderness Road 6. The National Road 7. The National Road 8. The Catskill Turnpike and Mohawk Turnpike 9. The Wilderness Road 10. About 400 miles |
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