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Vocabulary
Inventions
Educ.+Lit.
Transportation
Mixture
100
To make great amounts of product very fast.
What is mass produce?
100
Cyrus McCormick invented this machine that could harvest grain.
What is the reaper?
100
Horace Mann reorganized the school system in this state.
What is Massachusetts?
100
First major canal built in the United States.
What is the Erie Canal?
100
The food that the Irish depended on.
What is the potato?
200
A device that uses coded signals to send communications over a wire.
What is a telegraph?
200
Samuel B. Morse developed this, the first of three important improvements in communication.
What is the telegraph?
200
Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson were American ______________.
What are writers/poets?
200
This used horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California.
What is The Pony Express?
200
The book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped people understand how bad this was.
What is slavery?
300
A nation where several groups of people belonging to different races or cultures live together.
What is a melting pot?
300
This person invented the cotton gin and helped develop the idea of using interchangeable parts in manufacturing.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
Self-taught, excellent speaker and writer, published antislavery newspaper called The North Star, ex-slave, and an abolitionist.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
The first railroad in America to carry passengers.
What is The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?
300
This President takes office in 1825.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
400
A person who wanted slavery stopped.
What is an abolitionist?
400
Cyrus Field laid a telegraph cable from Newfoundland to this country.
What is Ireland?
400
The person wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin", a book that added to the movement to abolish slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
Two names that Robert Fulton's steamboat was called.
What is the Clermont and "Fulton's Folly"?
400
Thomas Jefferson had said that a _____________________ (our type of government) calls for an educated people.
What is democracy?
500
Having to do with buying or selling goods.
What is commerce?
500
Samuel Slater memorized parts of a machine used in this type of factory.
What is a cotton factory?
500
He wrote a series of readers, speller, and grammar books which provided a standard of learning for American schoolchildren.
Who is Noah Webster?
500
These became far better than any other kind of transportation due to being so much faster.
What are railroads?
500
Vocab. - Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
What is transatlantic?