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Land that belongs to a country but has no representation in that country.
What is a territory?
100
Bought a large area of land from the country of France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
This connected rivers and waterways to each other
What are canals?
100
Conflict between the US and Great Britian.
What is The War of 1812?
100
Where most of the fighting of the War of 1812 took place.
What are the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes?
200
Money people pay to use something like a road.
What is a toll?
200
These two men explored the Louisana Territory for President Jefferson.
Who are Merriweather Lewis and William Clark?
200
This form of transportation carried passengers on land from city to city.
What is Trains/railroads?
200
In 1811, the state capital was moved to this city for the last time.
What is Harrisburg?
200
The three Pennsylvania capitals.
What are Philadelphia, Lancaster, and Harrisburg?
300
Workers using machines to make many goods in a short period of time.
What is mass production?
300
The Secretary of the Treasury and negotiater of the Treaty of Ghent
Who is Albert Gallatin?
300
A boat that made water travel much easier.
What is a steamboat?
300
This law was passed in 1834 and created public schools for all children in the state.
What is The Free School Act?
300
He drilled the first oil well in Titusvliie, PA.
Who is Edwin Drake?
400
To work together to come to an agreement
What is negotiate?
400
Navy captain who forced the British to surrender in a battle on Lake Erie.
Who is Oliver Hazard Perry?
400
New kind of road lined with crushed stone. Travelers on the road paid a toll to help pay for it.
What is The Lancaster Turnpike?
400
The name of the deal in which Thomas Jefferson bought land from Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803.
What is The Louisana Purchase?
400
The time in our history when changes in industry made cities larger, machines were used for mass production, and many factories were built.
What is The Industrial Revolution?
500
The buying and selling of a large amount of goods
What is commerce?
500
This Pennsylvanian improved the steamboat that had been invented by John Fitch.
Who is Robert Fulton?
500
These changed transportation and the economy by linking cities and allowing people to travel and transport large amounts of goods quickly.
What is railroads/trains?
500
In 1814 this agreement was signed to end the War of 1812.
What is The Treaty of Ghent?
500
A Philadelphis Quaker who was a leader of the women's rights movement.
Who is Lucretia Mott?