1. What advantages did steamboat travel have over wagon and horse travel? 2. What two cities did the Erie Canal connect?
3. What states were formed between 1791 and 1803?
4. How did Steamboats improve river travel?
5. How did better transportation affect westward expansion?

legislative branch:

one of the three branches of government divided between the senate and the house of representatives.

- creates or makes laws

- power to override a veto

executive branch:

one of the three branches of government, headed by the president.

- enforces or carries out laws

- power to veto a bill sent to it by congress

judicial branch:

one of the three branches of government, headed by the chief justice of the supreme court.

- interprets laws

- power to declare laws or actions by the government unconstitutional