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100

What is a new way to send messages by sending pulses of electricity over wires?

6. A telegraph

100

What is a change to make something better or bring more justice?

4. Reform

100

12. Who invented the telegraph?

Samuel Morse

100

13. Who invented the reaper?

Cyrus McCormick

200

What is a large amount of land owned by a planter?

2. A plantation

200

What is the amount of goods and services that people want to buy called?

1. Demand

200

11. What business helped letters and news travel faster?

United States Post Office

300

What is a person who comes to live in a country from somewhere else?

3. An immigrant

300

7. Where do ships dock to load and unload goods?

Port

300

10. Why didn’t Christians want mail delivery on Sundays?

Christians believed you shouldn’t work on Sundays

400

What are the goods that are produced called?

5. Supply

400

8. What right says that only an inventor can make or sell his invention?

Patent

400

9. Why did trains start becoming more popular than steamboats?

Trains were able to travel on land and they were a lot faster