Question

What was most significant about Robert Fulton’s steamboat?
It was the first to successfully travel long distances.
It was the first working steamboat to receive a patent.
It was the first to demonstrated the ability to travel to the Northwest Territory.
It was the first commercially used steamboat.

Answer 1

It was the first commercially used steamboat.

Fulton’s Clermont (1807) was the first steamboat to demonstrate reliable, profitable commercial service (regular passenger/cargo runs on the Hudson), which launched widespread commercial steamboat use.