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I'm a Big Deal
Footprints and Paths
Bread-and-Butter
Gold and Glory
All Over the Place
100
1837, this blacksmith improved the plow.
Who is John Deere
100
Travelers took this trail to find gold.
What is the California Trail
100
This invention cleaned cotton faster.
What is the Cotton Gin
100
This was a pathway travelers took to find gold.
What was the California Trail
100
This is a president known as “Old Hickory.”
Who was Andrew Jackson
200
By 1790, this man build the first American cotton-spinning machine.
Who is Samuel Slater
200
This trail was taken to go West, in order to find cheap land.
What is the Oregon trail
200
This machine has sharp blades to cut grain.
What is the reaper
200
These people searched for gold in California.
Who are forty-niners
200
A dramatic period that changed goods by hand at home to making them with machine in factories.
What was the Industrial Revolution
300
In 1793, this man invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney
300
Native Americans were forcefully removed from their homelands and marched on this trail.
What is the Trail of Tears
300
This invention improved farming because it could cut through the thick prairie grass.
What is the plow
300
This is when large of numbers of people went to California seeking gold.
What is the Gold Rush
300
These are fur trappers that lived in the western mountains.
Who were Mountain Men
400
In 1813, this man and his partners build a textile factory in Massachusetts.
Who is Francis Lowell
400
This path was a human built waterway that connected the Midwest with the harbor of New York City.
What is the Erie Canal
400
This invention could produce more power than a team of horses, so it can pull heavier loads.
What is the steam engine
400
This is the name of the mill where gold was first discovered in California.
What is Sutter’s Mill
400
This is a large group of wagons that carried settlers west.
What were the wagon trains
500
In 1832, this man built an improved reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick
500
This trail was taken to Utah, in order to find religious freedom.
What is the Mormon Trail
500
These tools made each part of every musket the same, or standard.
What are Interchangeable Parts
500
This Mountain Man established a fort in Wyoming for travelers to use as a rest stop.
Who is Jim Bridger
500
This is a person who runs and organizes a business.
What is an entrepreneur