- Collection:
- Alabama History Education Materials
- Title:
- Letting Off Some Steam
- Date of Original:
- 1990/2022
- Subject:
- Pioneers--United States--Alabama
Statehood (American politics)
Transportation - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
- Medium:
- lesson plans
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- In this lesson, students will explore the invention of the steamboat and the role it played in the economy, transportation, and culture of the lifestyles of plantation owners, yeoman farmers, slaves, and townspeople of early nineteenth-century Alabama. Students will compare and contrast steamboats, wagons, and stagecoaches as different modes of transportation for goods as well as people. Students will create a steamboat advertisement to illustrate the importance of the invention of the steamboat in Alabama.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/lessons/id/195
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/lessons:195/manifest.json
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
-
Letting Off Some Steam
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