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100
Three major roads which provided transportation routes for thousands of courageous early Americans and their livestock and supplies.
What are Great Wagon Road, Wilderness Road, and National Road.
100
A shallow, man made water highway that connects two bodies of water.
What is a canal?
100
In 1639, the Massachusetts Bay Colony gave this man permission to use his home as a post office.
Who is Richard Fairbanks?
100
The biggest factor in the South’s lack of industrialization was its reliance on this.
What is agriculture?
100
Number of people entering the country between 1820 and 1860.
What is more than six million?
200
Germans and Scots-Irish farmers from Pennsylvania followed the road southward to settle less crowded lands. They went from Philadelphia to Lancaster and York. Then they crossed the Potomac to Virginia and eventually moved south across the Carolinas to Augusta, Georgia.
What is Great Wagon Road.
200
The most famous canal opened in 1825. It connected Lake Erie with Albany, New York, on the Hudson River.
What is the Erie Canal?
200
Became the first Postmaster General of the United States.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
Workers performed only one part of a multi step process. One person, a group of men, or numerous investors owned the building, the machinery, and the tools. The workers received a fixed wage, and the owners received the profits. But the owners also paid all the costs and took all the risks.
What is the factory system?
200
A persuasive preacher and writer in Boston, was the most famous Unitarian.
Who is William Channing?
300
This road would be an extension of the Great Wagon Road.
What is the Wilderness Road.
300
Built the first American locomotive on a railroad track in 1825.
Who is John Stevens of Hoboken, New Jersey?
300
Beginning on April 3, 1860, riders carried mail on horseback from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California.
What is the Pony Express?
300
Forbade the export of machinery and the emigration of men who could build and operate it.
What is Britain?
300
Combined romantic ideals with rationalism, saying that people can find truth instinctively, without the authority of Scripture. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were the best known of these.
What is transcendentalism?
400
Private companies these hoping to make a profit by charging a toll, or fee, for use of these roads.
What are turnpikes.
400
The first regularly scheduled raid service began in the United States in this year.
What is 1831?
400
This advancement brought about the end of the Pony Express.
What is the telegraph?
400
An English mechanic who, knowing the risks of leaving the country illegally, came to American and built a whole series of machines from memory.
Who is Samuel Slater?
400
The most famous camp meeting took place in 1801 in Kentucky, not far from the city of Lexington. The crowd numbered at least ten thousand people.
What is Cane Ridge?
500
He convinced Matthew Boulton and James Watt, the inventors of the engine, to sell him one for $2,600.
Who is Robert Fulton?
500
More than two-thirds of the total track in the United States were in these two regions.
What is the North and West?
500
Morse's first message by telegraph.
What hath God wrought?
500
A New England cloth maker, organized a mill town for girls in Waltham, Massachusetts. The town’s factory provided their room and board and strict supervision.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
500
The reformers believed that the best way for children to learn was to be together at a public school with the same textbooks. Massachusetts led this reform. This man developed the first public high schools there in the 1820s.
Who is Horace Mann?
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