Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 9, Lesson 3: Moving by Rail (pp. 182-186)
I. Trains and Other Ways to Travel
B. Trains became popular in the late 1860s because they made traveling faster.
C. When cars, buses, and airplanes became faster than trains, people began using them for travel.
II. Railroads Today
B. Ships, trains, and trucks help trade.
C. People still use trains for traveling long and short distances.
D. Today people are inventing new kinds of trains that can travel very fast.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. Trains carry freight and people from place to place.
A. Trains move many goods people buy and sell between distant states at a reasonable cost.
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