Agriculture
Technology and Industry
Key Terms
Mics review
VIP
100
Who invented the steel tipped plow?
John Deere
100
This replaced horses and helped move trains?
locomotives
100
True or False the sewing machine made making clothes faster and easier?
True
100
What canal opened in 1825 and helped the movement of goods?
Erie Canal
100
American inventor who invented sewing machine?
Elias Howe
200
Flat grassland in the central United States?
Great Plains
200
The US had aout 23,00 miles of these by 1852?
Telegraph lines
200
A ______ is an apparatus that used electrical signals to transmit messages?
telegraph
200
Railroads played an important role in establishing the ____?
Midwest
200
First locomotive designed by________?
Peter Coper
300
The__________ sped up the harvesting of wheat?
Mechanical reaper
300
Peter Cooper named his first locomotive what?
Tom Thumb
300
Ships with sleek hulls and tall sails?
Clipper ships
300
How many years after the fail of the first locomotive did the US having locomotives pulling trains.
10 years
300
In what year did Robert Fulton demonstrate a reliable steamboat?
1807
400
What did the thresher do?
Separated the grain from the stalk
400
In what year did the US have almost 3,000 miles of railroad tracks?
1840
400
Morse code?
A series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet
400
What did the North turn away from and turn to?
They turned away from farming and turned to industry
400
Designed Mechanical reaper?? (first and last name)
Cyrus McCorminck
500
What was the old way peopel harvested grain?
hand held sickles
500
What were the three phases of industrialization?
1. Manufactors made products by dividing the tasks invoved amoung the workers 2. Manufactors built factories to bring specialized workers together. 3. Factory workers used machinery to preform some of their work.
500
What two things did canals do?
They opened new shipping routes and sped up the flow of goods
500
The east and west canals did what for goods?
They made moving goods faster and cheaper
500
Who is Samuel Morse?
An american inventor, made the Morse Code?
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