People
This explorer left Italy traveling to China and India helping to establish the Silk Road.
Who is Marco Polo?
Thomas Jefferson purchased this large area of land.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
Nawist
Who is a person that opposing immigration?
A device that transmitted messages through electric signals.
What is the Telegraph?
Products could be made faster by organized workers using machinery in this type of place.
What is a factory?
He was the Leader of Sons of Liberty.
Who was Sam Adams?
In 1860 nearly 31,000 miles of track linked cities between these two areas.
Money used to invest in business.
What is capital?
The largest susension bridge in the world opens in 1883.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
This first steam-powered locomotive began operating in Britain in 1829.
What is the Rocket?
This dictator of France sold the Lousiana Purchase to the United States for 13 million.
Who is Napolean Bonaparte
This provided a new transportation route for merchants and travelers when it was completed in what year?
What is the Erie Canal in 1825?
A farmer who did not own enslaved workers.
What is a Yeoman?
In 1893 Charles & Frank Duryea built this for speed in Springfield, Massachusetts.
What is the first American automobile?
Federal land sales, made possible by the 1862 Morrill Act, provided funds for these types of school.
He helped train the Continental Army at Valley Forge.
Who is Baron Von Steuben
In 1884 William LeBaron Penney constructed this 10-story marvel and in what city.
What is the first skyscraper in Chicago?
Settlers who arrived in 1849 in California searching for riches.
What is a fortyniner?
In 1846, mass production of textiles was made possible by what invention in New England?
What is the sewing machine?
He was a realist and a regionalist but is famous for his writings including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Who is Mark Twain?
His Steamboat, developed in 1807, enabled goods and passengers to move along the inland waterways more cheaply and quickly.
Who is Robert Fulton?
These two rivers were disputed as the rightful borders between America and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande River & the Nueces River?
The idea that America's borders should spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A series of transmitting messages using dots and dashes representing letters of the alphabet used on these types of electrical lines.
What is morse code and telegraph lines?
This song was played at Yorktown telling the story of a poorly dressed simple person.
What is Yankee doodle?