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New Americans
Communication
Factories
Transportation
Farming
100
a person who enters a settlement in order to stay there.
What is an immigrant
100
a device that sends an electrical signals along a wire
What is the telegraph
100
Where were factories located
What is the north
100
fast sailing ships of the 1800s
What is the clipper ship
100
Who invented the light weight plow made of steel
who is John Deere
200
Between 1845 and 1860, over 1.5 million of these fled to the United States.
Who are the irish
200
who invented the telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse
200
few factories had any of these so accidents were common
What are safety devices
200
In 1828, an English family created a steam powered engine called what?
What is the rocket
200
This machine made farming easier; it had two rollers with a thin wire.
What is the cotton gin
300
Person who wanted to limit immigrations and preserve the US for native-born white americans
What is a nativists
300
A Series of dots, dashes and spaces used as communication in 1844
What is Morse Code
300
People were sometimes cold because few factories had these
What is a heating system
300
Many people believed that _______ were safer and faster then trains pulled by steam engine.
What is Horse drawn rail cars
300
A horse drawn machine that mowed wheat and other grains.
What is the mechanical reaper
400
A disease that destroyed the potato crop across Europe, and forced 1.5 million irish to flee to the US, was called a
What is a famine
400
Another name for the telegraph
What is the talking wire
400
this made it possible for factories to be built anywhere instead of just by the water
What is steam power
400
this made it possible to get things from one town to another
What is the railroads
400
Who opened a factory in Chicago that manufactured mechanical reapers?
Who is Cyrus McCormick
500
A problem that Europeans brought with them to the united states
What is disease
500
law to keep slaves from either running away or rebelling
What are slave codes
500
the factories were in the north and slaves in the south because of this
What is the Missouri compromise
500
invention that burned holes in passengers clothing and made sparks fly
What is the iron horse
500
who invented the cotton gin in 1793
who is eli whitney