-In the 1800's, people used rivers to travel long distances and St. Louis is where two large rivers meet.
-It served as a starting point for settlers moving farther west.
100
How did many people begin their trip West in the early 1800s?
By horse or boat
100
Things people buy or sell.
What is goods?
100
The way people and things are carried from place to place.
What is transportation?
200
What are the 2 rivers that meet at St. Louis?
Missouri River and Mississippi River
200
What were people able to do after Samuel Morse invented the telegraph?
Send signals by electricity
200
Work that one person does for another.
What is a service?
200
A machine that turns steam into power.
What is a steam engine?
300
Reasons that St. Louis grew rapidly.
Its location on the river made it easy to move people and goods.
300
How did the telegraph improve people’s lives across the country?
People could get information more quickly
300
A person who takes a risk, or chance, and starts a business.
What is an entrepreneur?
300
A track with two steel rails on which trains move
What is a railroad?
400
What did people who stayed in St. Louis do? What types of businesses where started there?
People who stayed were entrepreneurs, they started up new services and businesses.
They started newspapers, mills, raised cattle, or sold land.
400
What types of transportation were developed in the 1800s? How did they change transportation?
The steam engine and railroads. They made transportation much faster.
400
The money a business earns after paying all its costs.
What is profit?
400
A machine that sends signals by electricity.
What is a telegraph?
500
What might a visitor in St. Louis see and do in St. Louis in the year 1860?
Go to lectures, concerts, schools and universities, new businesses, and see a theater.
500
What was the pony express? Why did it end?
A group of horseback riders who carried the mail. The telegraph made communication much faster.
500
A graph that tells how something changes over time.