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These are things people buy and sell.
What are goods?
100
The work that one person does for another.
What is a service?
100
In the 1800s, this is what people used to travel long distances.
What is rivers?
100
Entrepreneurs who ran their businesses well made this.
What is a profit?
100
This is the transportation settlers used moving west in the early 1800s.
What are covered wagons?
200
This is a person who takes a risk, or a chance, and starts a business.
What is an entrepreneur?
200
This is the track with two steel rails on which trains move.
What is a railroad?
200
Boats moved these up and down the rivers.
What is people and goods?
200
This is a kind of graph that uses lines and dots to show how something changes over time.
What is a line graph?
200
This invention made transportation faster in the early 1800s.
What is the steam engine?
300
This is a machine that turns steam into power.
What is a steam engine?
300
This is a machine that sends signals by electricity.
What is a telegraph?
300
Pioneers bought these goods in St. Louis.
What is saddles, plows, wagons, or supplies?
300
By the 1830s, these were built in the East and made travel faster.
What is a railroad?
400
The way people and things are carried from one place to another.
What is transportation?
400
Business owners in St. Louis sold goods to make a ______.
What is a profit?
400
Newcomers to St. Louis did this when they settled in St. Louis.
What is found work, farmed, or set up new businesses?
400
This helps you measure distance on a map.
What is a map scale?
400
This ended because a telegraph line crossed our country and sent messages more quickly.
What is the Pony Express?
500
This is the money a business earns after paying all its costs.
What is profit?
500
When the _____ linked the East and West coasts, travel across the country became easier.
What is the railroad?
500
This is a business that entrepreneurs set up in St. Louis. (3)
What is boat captains setting up passenger boats, newspapers, mills, or raising mules?
500
This helped St. Louis grow in the 1800s.
What is the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers?
500
This united the country.
What is the telegraph and the railroad?