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Virtual Online Steamboat Museum: Steamboat Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource was created to help save the Delta Queen, the magnificent steamboat that still makes her way up and down the rivers. There are hundreds of photos and stories, collections, and research links available to the steamboat...
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Digital History

Digital History: Accelerating Transportation

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough look at the transportation revolution that occured in the early 1800s. Read about the building of roads, canals, and the spread of railroads. Find out about the surprising opposition to improved transportation, and see how...
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Montana History and Prehistory: Steamboating on the Missouri River

For Students 9th - 10th
Traveling West was never easy! Here is a good description of the many ways people traveled. Of particular note is the paragraph on the steamboat crews.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Archiving Early America: Early Virginia River Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the waterways in Virginia that colonists used to expand their way of life, especially for tobacco sales.