Telegraph 1
Telegraph 2
Immigration 1
Immigration 2
mixed bag
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Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel . B. Morse
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How did the telegraph help business
by gaining information about supply, demand and prices
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What is an immigrant?
people who are not born in the United States that moved in from another country
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What were the working conditions of the farmer?
relies on the weather and you are your own boss
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Who invented the clipper ships?
John Griffiths
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What are the cities that were first connected by the telegraph?
Washington D.C. to Baltimore
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What is Morse Code?
A series of dots, dashes, and spaces that stand for letters sent by the telegraph.
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What did immigrants do?
worked for companies and farmers
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What did the immigrants do in the factories?
worked on the machinery
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How did the railroad help factories
By transporting goods cheaper and easier
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What year was the telegraph set up in the Supreme Court Chamber?
1844
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Who funded Morse's idea of the telegraph?
Congress
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What were the working conditions in a factory?harsh and if you are hurt you still have to work
harsh and if you are hurt you still have to work
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What inventions revolutionized farming?
light weigh plow, mechanical reaper
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How did the north make their money?
Factories
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What was the first message sent over the telegraph?
"What hath God wrought?'
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Who was most helped by the telegraph.
Farmers, businessmen and newspaper reporters
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What is another name for illegal immigrants?
illegal aliens
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What inventions helped ship goods to stores?
railroads, clipper ships and steam engines
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How did the south make their money
farming
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How did they know that the telegraph worked?
by the operator sending back the same message
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What is another name for the telegraph?
Talking wire
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What are two reasons immigrants came to the US?
for better jobs and pay also to flee from Germany
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What happened if the farmers couldn't work a day?
They lost a days pay
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Who are nativists.
A person who did not like immigrants
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