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Progress!
100
the inventor of the telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse?
100
to share information
What is communicate?
100
a farm tool used to cut and gather grain
What is a reaper?
100
the reform movement that tried to stop drunkenness
What is the temperance movement?
100
the first telegraph message
What is "What hath God wrought."
200
the inventor of the horse-drawn reaper
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
200
a right that allows only the inventor to make and sell his invention
What is a patent?
200
a large amount of land owned by a planter; large farms in the South
What is a plantation?
200
2 big problems faced by growing cities
What is crime and fire?
200
a way to show how many people live in a particular area
What is a population map?
300
a person who comes to live in a country from somewhere else.
What is an immigrant?
300
a new way to send messages over wires with a pulse of electricity
What is the telegraph?
300
a place near water where ships dock to load and unload goods
What is a port?
300
farms were more successful because of new
What is inventions?
300
the United States grew in what 3 areas during the early 1800s
What is canals, steamboats, and railroads?
400
Most of the immigrants of the early 1800s were from these countries.
What is Germany and Ireland?
400
a change to make something better or more just
What is reform?
400
how many people live in a particular area
What is population density?
400
Farms sold their extra food to people in
What is the city?
400
2 benefits of railroads
What is news traveled more quickly, more goods from the East could be sold in the West, and/or people could travel to other parts of the country.
500
Give the last name of someone in the riverboat (steamboat) business.
Who is Gibbons, Fulton, or Vanderbilt?
500
goods that are produced for sale by farms, factories, or businesses
What is supply?
500
amount of goods or services people want to buy
What is demand?
500
Factories could be built away from water once this was invented.
What is a steam engine?
500
inventions, immigrants, better transportation all made the early 1800s a time period of great _________ for America.
What is progress?
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