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St. Louis
Moving West
Communication and Transportation
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
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True or False? As more people came to St. Louis, its economy grew.
True
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Where did people hope to make new lives?
California and Oregon
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What are things that people buy or sell?
goods
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What is work that one person does for another?
service
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What is the way people and things are carried from one place to another?
transportation
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What rivers met in St. Louis?
The Mississippi River and the Missouri River
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What two things made life easier in the East?
trains and telegraphs
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In what way did the railroad change transportation?
The railroad made travel faster and easier.
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What is a track with two steel rails on which trains move?
railroad
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How does a steam engine work?
It turns steam into power.
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What businesses did settlers start in St. Louis?
They set up mills and ran passenger boats.
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Before the telegraph, how did people send messages?
The Pony Express
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What invention let people send signals by electricity so that people could get information more quickly?
telegraph
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What is a kind of graph that uses lines and dots to show how something changes over time?
line graph
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What does a map scale show?
The length that equals a given number of miles on a map.
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Why was St. Louis a busy place?
The town served as a starting point for settlers moving farther west. People also found work, farmed, or set up new businesses.
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What did the telegraph and railroad make it possible for Americans to do?
It made it possible to cross the country and send news more quickly than ever.
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In what ways did the telegraph improve people's lives across the country?
The telegraph let people send messages quicly over long distances. It replaced slower types of communication like the Pony Express.
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Define goods.
Things people buy or sell
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Why is the distance people have to travel to get somewhere often longer than the actual distance between two places?
Roads and rivers do not always go in a straight line between two places. When they curve, it adds more distance to a trip.
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Give one example of how St. Louise changed over the years.
People now live in tall buildings instead of cabins. Today many companies make trucks with motoers instead of having wagons pulled by mules. It once was just a trading post, but now it is a city with over 300,000 people.
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Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
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What invention made transportation faster?
steam engine
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Who is a person that takes a risk, or a chance, and starts a business?
entrepreneur
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What is the money a business earns after paying all its costs?
profit