High Seas
This type of ship was the main vehicle for trade to and from Boston.
What is a clipper ship?
The Economic System in which private owners invest their money to make a profit.
What is Capitalism?
This place had a hugely important mill using the Merrimack river.
Where is Lowell?
This group of sisters contributed to Boston Culture Greatly.
Who are the peabody sisters?
These Mountains separate Europe and Asia through Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This frigate won many battles in the war of 1812.
What is the USS Constitution?
In addition to trade, Boston built wealth by this means.
What is manufacturing?
The country that Bostonians had to begin trading with because Europe was off limits.
Where is China?
Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophical creation.
What is Transcendentalism?
Mt. Everest resides in this mountain range North of India.
What are the Himalaya Mountains.
These pirates prompted Andrew Johnson to pass the Embargo Act of 1808.
What are Algiers?
This invention revolutionized the textile industry.
What are factories / Mills / Lowell Mills.
Once Bostonians made money, they began to settle in this part of Boston.
What is Beacon Hill?
Charles Bulfinch created this hugely important building in Beacon Hill.
What is the State House?
A group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
The fastest ship in the world in the 1800s.
What is the Flying Cloud?
This technology rendered Lowell Mills and Clippers obsolete.
What is steam power?
This captain created the Navy Motto: "Don't give up the ship"
Who is Captain James Lawrence?
This famous author was born in Boston, but didn't like it very much.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
This river flows into the Pacific Ocean through the middle of China.
What is the Yangtze River?
Name and define 1 part of a 19th Century ship.
Hold — Enclosed space within a ship designed for storing cargo
Hull — The main body of a ship or boat, most of which is under the water
Rigging — Ropes, cables and chains supporting a ship’s masts, spars and sails
Imports: Luxury Goods, Slaves, Sugar, Molasses, Tea, Manufactured goods
Exports: Fur, Whale Oil, Tools, Clothes, Rum, Ginseng
This Building was specifically created for the Massachusetts Historical Society.
What is the Boston Antheneum?
Name the 4 tenets of Transcendentalism.
1. Go against commonly held spiritual traditions.
2. Man and Nature are one
3. Nature is always changing
4. Self-Reliance: Man is inherently great, so we should trust our intuition.
This desert goes through the northern border of China.
What is the Gobi Desert?