Transportation
Economy
Population
Vocabulary
Potluck
100
Nickname for the railroad.
What is the Iron Horse?
100
These two cities became Ohio's largest industrial centers during the 1800's.
What are Cincinnati and Cleveland?
100
These laws were passed to prohibit Africans from holding certain jobs.
What are Black Laws?
100
Unfair treatment
What is discrimination?
100
This city was also known as "Porkopolis," because of its meat-packing plants.
What is Cincinnati?
200
The two main canals in Ohio connected the _____________ with ___________________.
What is the Ohio River and Lake Erie?
200
This business benefited the most from the canals.
What is farming?
200
Three reasons that many immigrants came to Ohio.
What are poor harvests, religious freedom, jobs, and/or land?
200
A trail or a path.
What is a trace?
200
The invention of this allowed farmers to break up the ground quicker and easier.
What is the steel plow?
300
Ohio's two main canal's.
What are the Ohio-Erie Canal and the Miami-Erie Canal?
300
People who can manage, organize, and take risks to start and run businesses.
What are entrepreneurs?
300
This religious group strongly opposed slavery and helped many slaves escape from the south.
What are Quakers?
300
Home-based businesses
What are cottage industries?
300
This was the first college in the U.S. to allow women and African Americans to attend.
What is Oberlin College?
400
Two advantages that the railroads had over roads, rivers, and canals.
What are the tracks do not freeze, trains are faster, trains can haul heavier loads?
400
Ohio was rich in these resources, which helped the economy to grow rapidly.
What are natural resources?
400
Ohio has the largest community of this religious group. They immigrated to Ohio in 1809.
What are the Amish?
400
The human resource needed to produce goods and services.
What is labor?
400
The four major transportation changes of the 1800's.
What are the railroads, canals, steamboats, and a national road?
500
Because this form of transportation was cheap and dependable, railroads grew slowly at the beginning.
What are canals?
500
This industry became Ohio's first industry outside of the home.
What are gristmills?
500
This group of people had such a influence on early Ohio that the constitution, many newspapers (including the Lancaster Eagle Gazette), and store signs were written in their language along with English.
What are the Germans?
500
The money and equipment used to produce goods, such as buildings and tools.
What is capital?
500
The canal that traveled through Lancaster.
What is the Lancaster Lateral Canal?
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