The Rambler’s Highway History IQ Test: The Seven Questions That Could Change Your Life – or Not! Can You Make the Grade?

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• Creators:
  The Rambler
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Contributors:
  Weingroff, Richard F.
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Ground Transportation Highways History Roads
• Series:
  FHWA Highway History Website Articles
• Resource Type:
  Web Document
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  Everyone knows the history of highways in the United States: from Indian trails to primitive roads chopped out of the woods followed by chartered turnpikes before the dark age of the railroad era in the last half of the 19th Century. Then came the dirt roads of the early automobile era so the Federal Government built the Lincoln Highway leading to America’s love affair with the automobile. Finally, the modern superhighway arrived in 1956 when the powerful highway lobby tricked President Dwight D. Eisenhower into conceiving the Interstate System to evacuate cities if atomic bombs were ever headed our way and paid off Congress with alleged campaign donations to pass the Interstate Highway Act. Seems simple and straightforward enough. But is it? Some of the details of that progress, unfortunately, have been lost along the way. The Rambler challenges readers’ Highway History IQ with this simple test. Don’t panic – these are not essay tests, or even multiple-choice questions. They are simple true-or-false questions.
• Content Notes:
  This PDF was downloaded from FHWA's Highway History website: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75903/dot_75903_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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