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Economic change from farming to industry.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
What was the Battle that defeated Napolean?
What was Waterloo?
The type of natural energy that powered the early textile mills.
What is water?
A disease that people commonly died from in the 1800's in the U.S.
What is Yellow Fever, Cholera, (any reasonable answer)?
Economic system where people are free to buy, sell and produce whatever they want.
What is Free Enterprise?
Designed the first practical steamboat.
Robert Fulton
The area of the U.S. that started the Industrial Revolution?
What is New England?
Gives an inventor the sole legal right to his/her invention.
What is a Patent?
In the 1800's sailor's phrase, "Mind your P's and Q's," the things the P's and the Q's stood for.
What is a bartender's list of the sailor's Pints and Quarts that he drank. Basically a Bar Bill!
An official count of the population of the U.S.
What is the Census?
Famous legendary giant lumberjack.
Who is Paul Bunyon?
Spain gave this state to the U.S. in the Adams-Onis Treaty.
What is Florida?
The major crop in the South in the 1800's.
What is cotton?
The Clermont was this type of boat.
What is a steamboat?
An artificial waterway that connects two places.
What is a Canal?
The 4th President of the United States.
Who was James Madison?
Two large bodies of water that surround Florida.
What are the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean?
Lewis and Clark dug this up on their expedition West that was 45 feet long.
What is a dinosaur?
Missouri entered the U.S. Union of states as this type of state according to the Missouri Compromise.
What is a Slave State?
A military court trial.
What is a Court Martial?
The President (his first and last names) that the Monroe Doctrine was named for.
Who is James Monroe?
Canal that was completed in 1825 and connects Lake Erie and Albany, New York.
What is the Erie Canal?
A popular medicine in the 1800's that was a mix of wintergreen and white gasoline.
What was Snake Oil?
Economic change from farming to industry.
What is the Industrial Revolution?