Strikes
What did workers go on until employees met their demands?
Strikes
What was the Transportation Revolution.
a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
What was the Clermont?
It was the first full-size commercial steamboat.
True or False
A half ton of coal produces as much energy as two tons of wood but at half the cost.
True
What was the device that could send information over wires across great distances?
The telegraph
What is the definition of trade unions?
Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.
What reduced during The Transportation Revolution?
Shipping time and costs.
What did the Clermont and other steamboats do to trade?
Increased trade and profits because goods could be moved quickly and thus more cheaply.
What is made through a smelting process of heating iron ore to very high temperatures?
Steel
What is the definition of Morse code?
Different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet.
What did employers believe that prevented competition with other manufacturers?
The higher cost of union employees.
Where was the wealth centered?
The North
What did the Clermont do on August 9th?
The Clermont traveled against the current up the Hudson River.
True or False
New towns, such as Coal City and Carbondale in Missouri, sprang up in places where coal deposits existed.
False
In 1832 who perfected the telegraph?
Samuel F.B. Morse
Who usually supported not striking union members.
Courts and police.
What did people in all areas of the nation now have access to?
Products made and grown far away.
What did steamboats do in 1850?
They carried goods and people.
True or False
As faster locomotives were built, wood replaced coal as the main source of power.
False
How does the telegraph work?
sends pulses, or surges, of electric currents through a wire.
Who was Sarah G. Bagley?
She was a millworker who had a strong voice in the union movement.
What replaced wood as the main source of power?
Coal
True or False
Aaron Odgen tested his first steamboat design in France.
False, it was Robert Fulton
Later, in the 1870s, the demand for ____ increased as the demand for ____ grew.
coal, steel
What does the Morse code dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot, say?
It Is the distress signal of SOS