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Vocabulary
Transportation
Technology
Agriculture
Farms and Plantations
100
Cotton Gin
Machine invented by Eli Whitney to separate seeds from cotton.
100
River
What is a natural waterway used for shipping.
100

sewing machine

What is an invention created by Elias Howe that allowed workers to produce clothing on a large scale.

100
Steel-tipped plow
What is an invention by John Deere in 1837 that made cutting through prairie sod easier
100
Yeomen
What is the largest group of white farmers who did not own enslaved people
200

Economy

What is another word for a system involving money

200
Canal
What is a manmade waterway that connects lakes and rivers
200

Steamboat

What is an invention that made traveling upstream easier

200
Mechanical Reaper
What is a machine designed by Cyrus McCormick that sped up the harvesting of wheat.
200
Overseer
What is the person who supervised the slaves work also known as a plantation manager
300
Industry
What is place or business that specializes in one particular area.
300

Name 2 of the major trails that took folks West

California Trail, Gila River Trail, Mormon Trail, Old Spanish Trail, Oregon Trail, and the Santa Fe Trail

300
Morse Code
What is a method of communication that was created by Samuel Morse and used a series of dots and dashes that could be translated into text.
300
Thresher
What is a machine used to quickly separate the grain from the stalk
300
Spiritual
What is an African American folk song
400
Agriculture
What is another word for farming.
400
Railroad
What is a series of tracks that are laid on the ground and made transporting goods and supplies by railroad car easier
400
telegraph
What is an instrument that made communication over long distances faster
400
Cotton
What is the main cash crop of the south
400

Literacy

What is the ability to read and write

500
Innovation
What is something new
500

Manifest Destiny

What is the the idea that Americans had a divine right to expand the country all the way to the Pacific Ocean?

500
Clipper ships
What is a ship with a sleek hull and tail sails. They could sail as fast as most steamships of the time
500
Cotton Gin
What is the machine invented by Eli Whitney to make the job of the slave easier
500
Slave Codes
What are laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people