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Misc Review
100
Clipper Ships
What are ships with sleek hulls and tall sails?
100
He invented the sewing machine.
Who is Elias Howe?
100
Locomotives
What replaced horses to move trains?
100
The area west of Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota.
What are the Great Plains?
100
People who took the law into their own hands.
What are vigilantes?
200
A series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet.
What is Morse code?
200
He invented a steamboat called the Clermont.
Who is Robert Fulton?
200
The Tom Thumb
What was the name of Peter Cooper's steam locomotive?
200
This could plow easily through hard-packed sod on prairies.
What is the steel-tipped plow?
200
Andrew Jackson's nickname
What is 'Old Hickory"?
300
An apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages.
What is the telegraph?
300
He designed and built the first American steam locomotive in 1830?
Who is Peter Cooper?
300
The words Samuel Morse tapped on May 14, 1844?
What is "What hath God wrought!"?
300
Cyrus McCormick
Who invented the mechanical reaper?
300
He was a great compromiser who ran for, but never won the presidency.
Who is Henry Clay?
400
With this invention, clothing could be produced at a faster rate.
What is the sewing machine?
400
He invented invented Morse code?
Who is Samuel Morse?
400
Telegraph Lines
What did the US have about 23,000 miles of by 1852?
400
This could quickly separate grain from the stalk?
What is the thresher?
400
Name of people who headed to California in search of gold in 1849.
What are forty-niners?
500
Artificial waterways that improved shipping time.
What are canals?
500
He invented the steel-tipped plow?
Who is John Deere?
500
In the first phase of industrialization, manufacturers made products by __________ the tasks involved among workers.
What is dividing?
500
Crops planted strictly for sale.
What are cash crops?
500
Davey Crocket
Who was the frontiersman that was killed at the Alamo?
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