Who am I?
I invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
I am used to raise and lower the water level in a canal.
locks
Who was made to work in factories to help families survive.
children
What was the biggest problem with river transportation before the invention of the steamboat?
sailing upstream
This term describes the system whereby goods were manufactured by people working to gether in one place.
factory system
I patented the first sewing machine.
Elias Howe
I am the type of roads that were built by private companies and people were charged to use them.
turnpikes
I was hugely important for teh economy of the South.
cotton
What invention brought an end to the pony express?
telegraph
Who was the leading figure in the revival at Yale?
Timothy Dwight
I invented the telegraph.
Samuel Morse
I was invented by John Deere to make farming easier
iron plow
I was owned by only a few people in the South, but it made a big impact on our society.
slaves
What transportaion route allowed boats to travell from Lake Erie to Albany, New York?
Erie Canal
What invention did Elias Howe patent?
sewing machine
I didn't actually make the first one, but I was credited with building the first commercially used steamboat?
Robert Fulton
I was the road most associated with Daniel Boone
Wilderness Road
I Which one of these places did not expand sea trade to America?
China, Japan, India, Sumatra
India
Who was the first American postmaster general that organized a working postal system?
Benjamin Franklin
Who was the most famous Unitarian minister in the 1800s?
William Ellery Channing
I developed the first public high school.
Horace Mann
I made steamboat travel popular
Clermont
I set up the first textile factory in America.
Samuel Slater
A major function of the early telegraph was...
used to coordinated railroad traffic
Who were the two women who organized the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights?
Lucretia Motts, Elizabeth Cady Stanton