Vocabulary
Definition of "transform"
What is to change something?
He invented the telegraph and morse code in 1844.
Who is Samuel Morse?
The direction steamboats could travel.
What is upstream?
This powered factories.
What is water and steam power?
This allowed farmers to ship their goods further from home.
What are railroads?
Definition of "innovation"
What is a new idea and/or method?
He invented the sewing machine in 1846.
Who is Elias Howe?
The amount of miles a clipper ship can travel per day.
What are 300 miles?
What is machinery?
The tool that separated grain from the stalk.
What is the thresher?
The language consisted of dots and dashes.
What is morse code?
He invented the steamboat in 1807.
Who is Robert Fulton?
This animal pulled the earlier trains.
What are horses?
What is more?
People would use ___ before the mechanical reaper was invented.
What are hand tools?
The device that used electrical signals to transmit messages.
What is a telegraph?
He invented the steam locomotive in 1830.
Who is Peter Cooper?
The amount of miles track went on in 1860.
What are 31,000 miles?
The item that allowed workers to produce clothes on a large scale.
What is a sewing machine?
The speed that the mechanical reaper allowed farmers to harvest at.
What is quick?
A fast vessel ship that was used to transport goods.
What is a clipper ship?
He invented the mechanical reaper in 1834.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
The river where people and goods traveled down to get to New Orleans.
What is the Mississippi River?
The portion of produced goods that the Northeast manufactured.
What is two thirds?
Where cash crops are transported on.
What is canal barge?