Transportation & Communication
What road went from Philadelphia, PA, to Augusta, GA that was primarily used by the Germans and the Scots-Irish
The Great Wagon Road
What began in England that revolutionized the world by allowing profit to be made and making advances in technology?
Industrial Revolution
What group of people opposed slavery and wanted it gone?
Abolitionists
What was invented for people to talk over great distances by stopping and and starting electrical impulses?
The telegraph
Invented by Samuel Morse
Canals were being built from 1817 to 1840. What caused canals to become obsolete in the U.S.?
Railroads
They were faster, can haul more, and cheaper
Eli Whitney was developing a rifle for the U.S. Military. What did he develop that would later inspire the idea of mass production?
Interchangeable parts
What caused the mass immigration of Irish people into the U.S.?
The Irish Potato Famine
(The Irish typically were poor and had to take low paying jobs and stayed in Northern cities)
Privately owned road ways that hoped to make a profit off of by charging tolls
Turnpikes
Who cut through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky
Daniel Boone
Who threatened the Japanese into opening up trade with the United states by showing up with several warships in 1853?
Commodore Matthew Perry
Who created blue jeans with his friend in the 1870's in San Fransisco to help miners have a more rugged clothing
Levi Strauss
Who smuggled himself out of England to start a textile business here in America and built all of the machines necessary from memory?
Samuel Slater
The first successful steam powered boat was built by Robert Fulton, and it was unveiled in 1807. What is the ships name?
Clermont
Who patented the sewing machine with a foot treadle in 1851?
Isaac Singer
What group of people combined romanticism and rationalism to form the following ideology: people can find truth instinctively without the authority of scripture?
Transcendentalism
Where did German immigrants decide to settle here in America?
The Midwest
The federal government helped the railroads grow by doing these four things:
1. gave companies land grants
2. surveyed land for railroads
3. lowered tariffs on iron
4. bought _______ to invest in them
Stocks/bonds
As Americans were sailing around the world, what did they discover in Brazil that became their favorite beverage?
Coffee
What was P.T. Barnum's nickname?
The Great Showman
He had a famous traveling circus that people called, "the Greatest Show on Earth."
Who was the first Post Master General in the U.S.?
Benjamin Franklin