Vocabulary
Transportation
Telegraph
St. Louis
Extras
100
Things people buy or sell.
What are goods?
100
A machine that uses steam for power.
What is a steam engine?
100
A telegraph sends signals using this.
What is electricity?
100
Name 2 things people would have seen when they traveled to St. Louis?
What is wagons, mules, telegraph lines, railroads, a trading post, taller buildings, etc.
100
The way people and things are carried from one place to another.
What is transportation?
200
Work that is done by one person for another.
What is service?
200
Why was the railroad useful?
What is it made travel quicker and easier?
200
The telegraph was invented in the 1800s, true or false?
What is true?
200
Tell two reasons why you might stay in St. Louis?
What is the population is growing, new job opportunities, starting a new business, etc.
200
Name three types of bodies of water.
What is ocean, sea, lake, river, etc.
300
The money a business makes after paying all of its costs.
What is profit?
300
Name 2 types of transportation that used steam?
What is a steam engine and a steamboat?
300
How did people relay messages to each other using the telegraph?
What is Morse code?
300
What two bodies of water were near St. Louis?
What is the Mississippi and the Missouri River?
300
A map scale helps do what?
What is measure distance on a map?
400
A person who takes a risk or chance and starts a new business.
What is an entrepreneur?
400
Why were the railroads important to the settlers?
What is they connected the East and the West?
400
In what was was the telegraph so important to settlers?
What is it connected the East and the West?
400
St. Louis is which direction from Wisconsin?
What is south?
400
Tell 2 businesses an entrepreneur might start out West?
What is wagon shop, clothing store, etc.
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