Vocab
A new development or invention.
What is Innovation?
An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation.
What is Canals?
Democrat who became president in the 1840s
Who was James K. Polk?
A machine for separating cotton from its seeds.
What is Cotton Gin?
Group of workers with the same trade, or skill.
What is Trade Union?
A continuous line of bars laid on the ground as one of a pair forming a railroad track.
What is Rails?
Apart of the Democratic Party and was nominated for president, He was also a diplomat and a former member of Congress.
Who was James Buchanan?
It was used for farming to break up tough soil without soil getting stuck to it.
What is Steel-Tipped Plow?
A measure of how much a worker can produce with a given amount of time and effort.
What is Productivity?
A wide way leading from one place to another.
What is Roads?
Republican that was a farmed western explorer who ran for president in 1856.
Who was John C. Fremont?
A mechanical, semi-automated device that harvests crops.
What is The Mechanical Reaper?
Farmer who owns a small farm.
What is Yeoman?
Could haul bigger loads of freight and passengers,
What is Locomotive?
Southern Democrat candidate for president.
Who was John C. Breckenridge?
A powered rail vehicle used for pulling trains.
What is The Locomotive
Plantation manager.
What is an Overseer?
Pulled by mules.
What is Canal Boats?
Led his forces to attack Fort Sumter before the Union supplies arrived.
Who was T Jefferson Davis?
A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.
What is The Telegraph?