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How did Cyrus McCormick grow rich?
MECHANICAL REAPER
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What did Robert Fulton invent?
STEAMBOAT
100
What is a telegraph?
ELECTRIC SIGNALS TO TRANSMIT MESSAGES
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How did most Midwest agricultural products get shipped East before 1825?
MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO NEW ORLEANS
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What happened in the third stage of industrialization?
POWERED-MACHINERY TO DO WORK
200
Who built Tom Thumb and what was it?
1ST US LOCOMOTIVE; PETER COOPER
200
How far could a clipper ship sail in a day?
300 MILES
200
What is an “innovation”?
NEW IDEA OR METHOD
200
What did trains and canals do to the price of manufactured goods?
LOWERED PRICES
200
How did clipper ships get their names?
CLIPPED TIME FROM LONG JOURNEYS
300
What happened in the first stage of industrialization?
DIVISION OF LABOR; SPECIALIZATION
300
What powered the first railroad trains?
HORSES
300
What sections of the country were connected by a railroad network in 1860?
NORTH AND MIDWEST
300
What were built to connect rivers and lakes?
CANALS
300
SPECIALIZED LABORERS IN FACTORY UNDER ONE ROOF; CENTRALIZATION
SPECIALIZED LABORERS IN FACTORY UNDER ONE ROOF; CENTRALIZATION
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How much of the nation’s manufactured goods were produced in Northeastern factories in 1860?
2/3
400
When was the Erie Canal opened?
1825
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Where did the first telegraph line run to and from?
WASHINGTON, D.C., TO BALTIMORE
400
What was the Rocket?
1ST STEAM POWERED LOCOMOTIVE
400
What did Elias Howe invent in 1846?
SEWING MACHINE
500
Why was the Associated Press formed in 1848?
TO SPEED TRANSMISSION OF THE NEWS VIA TELEGRAPH
500
What powered the new machines?
WATER AND STEAM
500
What is the Morse code made up of?
DOT-AND-DASH ALPHABET
500
How many of our steamboats did the country have by 1860?
3,000
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Who invented the steel-tipped plow?
JOHN DEERE