Trade and Daily Life
What was the Transportation Revolution?
A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel due to new methods of transportation.
Who was the Illinois blacksmith that designed a steel plow that made it easier to plow the soil?
John Deere
Where was the wealth centered during the Transportation Revolution?
The North
What is morse code?
A combination of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet.
What was the name Peter Cooper gave to the locomotive he built?
Tom Thumb
What form of transportation replaced sailboats and other forms of river transportation?
Steamboats
Who tested his first steamboat design in France?
Robert Fulton
What was formed along railroad tracks, and what happened to these places that were not built near railroads?
Towns; Towns not built near railroads suffered.
What does a short click represent in morse code?
A dot.
Who was Isaac Singer and what did he do that helped his customers?
Perfected the sewing machine. Allowed people to buy on credit and a service department.
Which form of transportation replaced travel by horseback, horse-drawn carriages, and walking?
Trains
Who built a small and powerful locomotive?
Peter Cooper.
Which two natural resources use increased because of the Transportation Revolution?
Wood; Coal
Who developed morse code?
Alfred Lewis Vail
What was the fastest form of transportation during the Transportation Revolution?
The railroad
Name the two new forms of transportation that came out of the First Industrial Revolution?
Steamboat and Trains
Who perfected the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Besides providing steam, what other use did coal have?
Heating source
What does a long click represent?
The logging industry became important to the growth of industry. Positives of the logging industry was newspaper publishing increased. A negative of the logging industry was deforestation. What is deforestation?
The cutting down and removing of trees on a large scale.
Steamboats were well suited for river travel and did not rely on what?
Wind Power
Who developed the mechanical reaper, a device that cut wheat quickly and efficiently?
Cyrus McCormick
Name four things steel was used for during the Transportation Revolution.
What was the name of the convention held in Baltimore, MD that wired the presidential nomination to politicians in Washington, D.C., who then celebrated the success of the telegraph?
Democratic National Convention
What were five other advancements of the technological age of the First Industrial Revolution?
Iceboxes, iron cookstoves, clocks, matches, and safety pins