before steamboats americans depended on flatboats to carry passengers and goods down streams. going upstream was extremely difficultonce most travelers reached their destination they tore their flatboats apart and used them as lumber for shelter or as fuel. new orleans was located at the mouth of the mississippi river. builders their were eager to buy the flatboats to use as lumber for houses and sidewalkskeelboats were pointed in the bow that in the stern. they could more easily be poled upstream

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