Vocab
A person who starts a business
What is entrepreneur?
Something produced in the making of something else
What is by-product?
*100 bonus pts. if you can say the exact date*
What is 1820?
*March 15, 1820*
After a few years of statehood, _______________ became Maine's permanent state capital.
What is Augusta?
Building large wooden ships for trade and travel.
What is shipbuilding?
The act of doing away with something
What is abolish?
A mapmaker
What is a cartographer?
________________ was the first capital of Maine.
What is Portland?
After the United States became its own country, Maine was still part of _________________ and not its own state yet.
What is Massachusetts?
What is lumbering?
The act of producing goods from raw materials, using machines
What is manufacturing?
What is circumnavigate?
Maine entered the Union as the _________ state.
What is 23rd?
The ________________ made many Mainers realize Massachusetts could not protect them well.
What is the War of 1812?
What is manufacturing?
A time when a civilization reaches its highest point in development
What is Golden Age?
Cash, land, livestock, or furniture a woman had to bring into a marriage
What is dowry?
Due to the __________________, Maine was able to enter the United States as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
When Maine became its own state, the Wabanaki worried they would lose their ______________.
What are customs/traditions?
After becoming a state, Maine's economy grew because of its many _______________.
What are natural resources?
A person who believed only white Protestants of English descent were Americans
What is nativist?
a disease that turns potatoes black
What is blight?
The first governor of Maine who had a big influence on Maine becoming its own state.
Who is William King?
Many settlers wanted a __________ set between their land and the Native Americans' land.
What is boundary?
*Must give the official name of this industry*
What is Agriculture (farming)?