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Telegraph 1
Telegraph 2
Immigration 1
Immigration 2
mixed bag
100
Samuel . B. Morse
Who invented the telegraph?
100
by gaining information about supply, demand and prices
How did the telegraph help business
100
people who are not born in the United States that moved in from another country
What is an immigrant?
100
relies on the weather and you are your own boss
What were the working conditions of the farmer?
100
John Griffiths
Who invented the clipper ships?
200
Washington D.C. to Baltimore
What are the cities that were first connected by the telegraph?
200
A series of dots, dashes, and spaces that stand for letters sent by the telegraph.
What is Morse Code?
200
worked for companies and farmers
What did immigrants do?
200
worked on the machinery
What did the immigrants do in the factories?
200
By transporting goods cheaper and easier
How did the railroad help factories?
300
1844
What year was the telegraph set up in the Supreme Court Chamber?
300
Congress
Who funded Morse's idea of the telegraph?
300
harsh and if you are hurt you still have to work
What were the working conditions in a factory?
300
light weigh plow, mechanical reaper
What inventions revolutionized farming?
300
Factories
How did the north make their money?
400
"What hath God wrought?'
What was the first message sent over the telegraph?
400
Farmers, businessmen and newspaper reporters
Who was most helped by the telegraph.
400
illegal aliens
What is another name for illegal immigrants?
400
railroads, clipper ships and steam engines
What inventions helped ship goods to stores?
400
Farming?
How did the south make their money
500
by the operator sending back the same message
How did they know that the telegraph worked?
500
Talking wire
What is another name for the telegraph?
500
for better jobs and pay also to flee from Germany
What are two reasons immigrants came to the US?
500
They lost a days pay
What happened if the farmers couldn't work a day?
500
A person who did not like immigrants
Who are nativists.