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Potpurri
100
The president during the civil war.

                    

Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
An escape route that slaves used to get to the north.
What was the Underground Railroad?
100
The first true railroad in the U.S.
What was the Baltimore & Ohio or B&O railroad?
100
Was a machine that helped women sew.
What was the sewing machine?
100
This law told people that if a slave was to escape to a free state then the slave must be returned to the slaves owner.
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
200
The person who invented the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney? 
200
The state that the U.S. annexed that made Mexico mad.
What is Texas?
200
It was used for traveling downstream before steamboats were invented.
What were flatboats?
200

Communication with dashes and dots. 

What was Morse Code?

200
This agreement stated that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
300
These people were missionaries in the west.
Who were Marcus and Narcissa Whitman?
300
The cause of about 40,000 people rushing to California.
What was the California Gold Rush?
300
Was dug by workers so that you could travel from east to west on only water.   
What was the Erie Canal?
300
Revolutionized the production of cotton. 
What was the cotton gin?
300
Someone who takes risks to start a business.
What is an entrepreneur? 
400
He helped build a factory in Rhode Island.
Who was Samuel Slater? 
400
The war that ended with the treaty of Guadalupe.
What was the Mexican-American War?
400
The federal government started to build this to help settlers move west.
What was the National Road?
400
A machine that helped to cut grains. 
What was the mechanical reaper?
400
A covered wagon with large wheels used for transportation.
What is a prairie schooner?
500
The president that announced that there was gold in California.
Who was James K. Polk?
500
Something that was like a mini Civil War. 
What was bleeding Kansas?
500
It was the first steam engine to run on the B&O railroad.
What was Tom Thumb?
500
A medicine that helps with anesthetic.
What is Ether?
500
A belief in the late 19th century that the U.S. had to expand its territory.
What was the Manifest Destiny?
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