Time Travel: Transportation & Communication Then and Now

Time Travel:  Transportation & Communication Then and Now

 

Level:  Advanced: Day 5 – Follow-up activity

Time:  45 – 50 minutes (1 class)

Materials:
          Turnpikes of Massachusetts (map)
 
Vocabulary:

          leisureliness, transmission, public-spirited, turbulent, cumbrous

Objectives:
          Students will:
1)     understand the consequences wrought by slowed transportation and its effects upon communication during the late 18th – early 19th century; and
2)     understand the difference between travel then and travel today.
 
Activities:
1)     Have students research the difficulties of transportation during late 18th century America, and its effects on communication.
2)     As a class, have students compare and contrast these difficulties to those they would encounter today and tomorrow.