Used to pick the seeds out of cotton. Invented by Eli Whitney
What is the cotton gin
100
Killed nearly two million Irish by famine
What is the potato rot
200
A painter who painted landscapes of nature to show people how beautiful Americas landscapes actually were. Also the first hippie.
What is George Catlin
200
A center of culture or a melting pot
What is demographic center
200
Invented by Robert Fulton
What is steamboat
200
One of the largest and longest-lived communal societies whose 1840 membership of 6,000 dwindled to extinction because they opposed marriage and free love
Who are the Shakers
200
What does NINA stand for?
What is No Irish Need Apply
300
Traveled 60,000 miles in 8 years collecting research for the insane
What is Dorothea Dix
300
Independent and self-reliant
What is individualistic
300
Invented by Elias Howe but perfected by Isaac Singer
What is the sewing machine
300
The communal experiment in Massachusetts in 1841 which ended in fire and failure.
What is Brooke Farm
300
Nickname for Irish women and men
What is biddies and paddies
400
Made textbooks, created reading lessons, and created the Dictionary
What is Noah Webster
400
Policy of extending a country's power and the influence through diplomacy or military force
What is imperialism
400
Samuel F. B. Morse stretched a telephone line 30 miles from the U.S. Capitol to a railroad station in Baltimore
What is the telegraph
400
What did wealthy and idealistic textile manufacturer Robert Owen established in New Harmony, Indiana in 1825