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In early U.S. history, there were two choices for transportation - road or water. Traveling by road with horses was ________ than water travel.
What is slower?
The period of history known for new machines that allowed people to make more goods faster.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Jobs created by the Industrial Revolution brought millions of these people from Europe to the Northeast.
What are immigrants?
The capital of Maryland.
What is Annapolis?
The capital of Massachusetts.
What is Boston?
Bodies of water that boats can use for transportation.
What are waterways?
In the early 1800's factories that used machines powered by moving water often were opened along these.
What are rivers?
This was the place where the nation's largest immigration center was located.
What is Ellis Island?
The capital of New Jersey.
What is Trenton?
The capital of Connecticut.
What is Hartford?
These types of rivers were deep enough and wide enough for ships to use.
What are navigable rivers?
A factory that uses machines to weave cloth.
What is a textile mill?
A large city together with its suburbs.
What is a metropolitan area?
The capital of Maine.
What is Augusta?
The capital of Rhode Island.
What is Providence?
A waterway dug across land.
What is a canal?
In the mid-1800's, these began to power machines in factories and also provided power for boats and trains.
What are steam engines?
With many immigrants moving to the Northeast to work in factories, many cities experienced this, which means increasing population in cities.
What is urban growth?
The capital of New Hampshire.
What is Concord?
The capital of New York.
What is Albany?
The canal completed in 1825 that connected Buffalo, New York on Lake Erie to New York City on the Atlantic Coast.
What is the Erie Canal?
In 1882, he opened the world's first electric power plant in New York City.
What was Thomas Edison?
An urban region formed when two or more metropolitan areas grow together.
What is a megalopolis?
The capital of Vermont.
What is Montpelier?
The capital of Delaware.
What is Dover?