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By Road, By Rail, By River
Jayne Marley
OKAGE TC
Yukon, OK
[email protected]
Essential Question
What is the economic advantage of
efficient transportation?
Lesson Overview
• Economic decisions for four centuries have been
based on how quickly a product can get to
market. Transportation evolved to keep up with
market demands. Trails became national roads,
river and sea-going transportation increased in
size to take on larger and more specialized loads,
and rivers themselves underwent
transformation into canal systems connecting
larger bodies of water with inland ports. Finally,
long distance overland transportation became
possible with the production of iron and
development of the steam engine.
National Geography Standards from
Geography for Life
Geography Elements and
Standards: Places and Regions
Standard 4: The physical and human
characteristics of places
Oklahoma Academic Standards:
Grade 8: U.S. History
High School: Oklahoma History and
Government, U.S. History
Literacy Skills Standard 1: The student will
develop and demonstrate Common Core
Social Studies reading literacy skills.
A. Key Ideas and Details
1.Cite specific textual evidence to support
analysis of primary and secondary sources.
C. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in
charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or
maps) with other information in print and
digital texts.
9.Analyze the relationship between a
primary and secondary source on the same
topic.
Grade 8: U.S. History
• Content Standard 4: The student will examine
the political, economic, social, and geographic
transformation of the United States during the
early to mid-1800s.
– 3. Cite specific textual and visual evidence to
compare the sectional economic transformations
including the concentration of population,
manufacturing, shipping, and the development of the
railroad system in the North as contrasted to the
plantation system, the increased demand for cotton
brought about by the invention of the cotton gin, and
the reliance on a slave labor system in the South.
Oklahoma History and Government
• Content Standard 1: The student will describe
the state’s geography and the historic
foundations laid by Native American,
European, and American cultures.
– 1. Integrate visual information to identify and
describe the significant physical and human
features including major trails, railway lines,
waterways, cities, ecological regions, natural
resources, highways, and landforms.
High School U.S. History
• Content Standard 1: The student will analyze
the transformation of the United States
through its civil rights struggles, immigrant
experiences, settlement of the American
West, and the industrialization of American
society in the Post-Reconstruction through
the Progressive Eras, 1865 to 1900.
– 3. Evaluate the impact of industrialization on the
transformation of American society, economy, and
politics.
Geographic Themes: Region and Movement
Objectives:
The student will analyze primary and secondary
source material.
The student will argue a point of view.
Transportation Role Cards
8th grade U.S. History
Hemp bales from Virginia to Maine seaboard (1800)
Bagged rice from the Georgetown, SC to Richmond, VA (1860)
50-400 lb. cotton bales from Davis Bend, MI to Lowell, MA (1828)
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois sending grain to New York harbor (1845)
Cooper in Rochester, NY sending barrels to Yonkers, NJ (1837)
High School U.S. History
Wheat from Lincoln, Nebraska to Bangor, Maine (1867)
Broomcorn from Greenfield, Massachusetts to Council Bluffs,
Iowa (1880)
Steel wire nails from Covington, KY to San Francisco, CA (1877)
Kerosene from New York City, NY to Garden City, KS (1860)
Beef from Abilene, KS to Chicago, IL (1872)
Oklahoma History and Government
Weyerhaeuser – trees from forest to sawmill and paper mill in Valliant, OK , and pulp
mill in Pine Bluff Arkansas.
Seaboard-processed pork from Guymon, Oklahoma, to Japan and Mexico.
Aviation parts from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Lockheed-Martin in Greenville, SC
Coal from Farrell-Cooper Mining Company, Stigler, OK and South Central Coal Company,
Spiro, OK to 2 coal-fired electric plants near Muskogee, OK and Redbird, OK and excess
to the Port of Catoosa or Port of Muskogee.
Fertilizer sold for delivery in tonnage by Farmers’ Cooperatives to cooperatives in Iowa.
Unit Rig (1988) in Tulsa ships mining dump trucks to copper mines in Chile.
*Chesapeake, Devon, and Sandridge executives address the Federal Environmental
Protection Agency asking for considerations to begin on regulations on emissions of
LNG locomotives and separate refrigerated tender cars for the fuel.