Roads
A road you must pay money to travel on.
Turnpike
What were the only ways to travel in the 1700s and early 1800s?
By foot, boat, or cart.
Building large amounts of goods in a factory is...
Manufacturing
Inventor of the modern lightbulb & 1000 other inventions.
Thomas Edison
Name of the location where most immigrants entered the country in the late 1800s.
Ellis Island
Legal permission to build a road or bridge and charge a toll on it.
Charter
What invention allowed transportation to become faster and easier?
Steam engines
The first factory town in NJ was...
Paterson, NJ
Creator of the first train in NJ.
John Stevens
An immigrant is...
someone who moves to a new country.
Why were roads to poor in early NJ?
Dirt construction and/or the government did not spend money on them.
An artificial (man-made) river or body of water that boats can travel on.
Canal
A form of protest where the workers at a business refuse to work.
A strike
Alexander Hamilton
Where did most immigrants in the 1800s come from?
Europe
What did the early government of NJ do instead of building roads themselves?
Allowed private citizens to make build roads & bridges.
Name two vehicles that were powered by steam engines.
Trains & steamboats
A group that works together to improve conditions for employees of a business.
A union
Town built by Thomas Edison.
Menlo Park
What did America do about immigration in the early 1920s?
Reduced it.
Why were so many people crossing northern NJ after the Revolutionary War?
It was the route between NYC and Philadelphia.
What did Paterson originally manufacture?
Cloth