Communication
Transportation
Farming
Immigration
Inventors/inventions
100
Who invented the telegraph
Samuel F.B Mores
100
What were the clipper ships used for?
To move cargo and people over sea faster.
100
what was the type of plow that farmers used more when it was invented?
the lightweight plow
100
What are the people that came to the U.S. from a different country called?
immigrants
100
What invention did Elias Howe make?
The sewing machine
200
Did trains make a good uses for communication? Why?
Yes. Because they were fast and could get the message to the destination faster before the telegraph
200
how did clipper ships make transporting goods faster
they moved faster so the cargo got to its destination faster
200
what was the fastest way farmers transported there goods over sea?
using clipper ships
200
What did most immigrants do for a living?
Any sort of unskilled work
200
What was the name of the first Steam-Powered train?
the rocket
300
Why did newspapers use the telegraph?
to get the news back to there department faster.
300
What was the problem with steam-engines for passengers and farmers?
burned clothes and farm buildings.
300
What was the fastest way farmers transported goods on land?
Trains
300
what was the policy called that limited other races like African American or German?
discrimination
300
Who made the lightweight plow?
John Deere
400
why did the U.S. use the telegraph when going to fight?
to send what they know about the enemy to there friends in other areas
400
why did the clipper ships get replaced?
The British came out with faster ships that held more cargo
400
Why was is it not good to plant cotton in the same place over and over year after year?
the soil started to wear out
400
what was the saying of the know-nothing party when they were asked about there group?
"We know nothing"
400
who made the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
500
Did the telegraph help the world?
yes
500
What did they use to move railroad carts before trains?
horses
500
what was three other things farms in the south grew besides cotton
Sugar, rice, Tobacco
500
What did the disease cause in Europe in the late 1840's
Famine
500
who invented the reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
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