People & Places
Where ships dock to load and unload goods
Ports
Cyrus McCormick invented the
Reaper
A person who comes to live in a country from somewhere else is called
Immigrant
One of the benefits the railroad brought to the growing nation was that goods manufactured in the East could be sold in the West.
True
A large amount of land owned by a planter is called
Plantation
What invention was a new way of sending messages
Telegraph
The amount of goods and services that people want to buy
Demand
One of the changes farms experienced during the growth of the nation was that extra crops could be sold in cities.
True
Population density measures the amount of _____ living in an area
People
What right says that only an inventor may make or sell his invention?
Patent
The goods that are produced by companies or businesses
Supply
Thomas Allen invented the telegraph
False, Samuel Morse
Who invented the reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
A reaper was a helpful tool for
Farmers
A new way to send messages by sending pulses of electricity over wires
Telegraph
A reaper was used to haul grain in from the fields
False, a reaper was used to cut and gather grain
What was Samuel Morse's first telegraph message?
What hath God wrought
What form of transportation allowed people and goods to travel across the country faster?
Trains
A change to make something better or more just
Reform
Wagon trains were the main kind of transportation that connected cities in the early 1800's
False, steamboats and railroads