Webquest Answers
1. Any of the following 4 names:
Alexander R. Brown
George Brown
Chaucey Brooks
Charles Carroll
Peter Cooper
Alex B. Fridge
John W. Garrett
William G. Harrison
Johns Hopkins
Benjamin C. Howard
2. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O)
3. D) 1827
4. Tom Thumb
5. C&O Canal and the Erie Canal
6. Baltimore needed to increase connectivity with the interior regions of the nation in order to support the trade of goods throughout Appalachia, American seaports, and international ports throughout Europe and the Americas.
7. Check all the locations out on our Baltimore google map.
8. Dessert Gelatin (a precursor to Jell-O)
9. The B&O railroad operated in the following locations:
Delaware
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Maryland
Massachusetts
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Washington, DC
West Virginia
10. B) 13
11. The CSX Corporation
12. Coal both fueled the steam locomotives and was also hauled as freight.
13. Sent from: US Capitol Building in Washington, DC
Received at: The B&O's Mount Clare Station in Baltimore, Maryland (now the B&O Railroad Museum)
Thomas C. Jenkins
Talbot Jones
Benjamin H. Latrobe
John H.B. Latrobe
Fielding Lucas
Charles F. Mayer, Sr.
Francis B. Mayer
Louis McLane
Isacc McKim
John V.L. McMahon
W.G. McNeil
John B. Morris
Samuel F.P. Morse
Robert Oliver
Joseph W. Patterson
William Patterson
Albert Schumacker
Thomas Swann
Philip E. Thomas