| Question |
Answer |
| progress | to move ahead |
| grind | to crush |
| services | transporting, moving, and selling items |
| transport | to move goods or people |
| portage | to carry something |
| gristmill | a large building located on a stream to grind grains into flour |
| sawmills | buildings where lumber is cut into boards |
| ferryboat | large raft used to float wagons across rivers |
| turnpike | a road in which travelers paid a toll to turn the gate or pike |
| canal | a waterway dug across land for small boats to go through |
| industry | making, selling, moving of goods, products and services. |
| steamboats | boats with a steam engine that are moved by a paddle wheel |
| railroads | long cars that are connected and moved over iron tracks |
| locomotives | the engine that pushes or pulls a train |
| iron ore | metal ore used to make steel |
| coke | a product make from soft coal |
| kerosene | a refined product of oil |
| oil | a product of a fossil fuel |
| textile | clothing and household materials |
| refined | made into a good |
| What are the 2 parts of industry? | 1. making goods2. servicing goods |
| what is the name of the sturdy wagon used to get goods over the Alleghany Mountains to Pittsburgh? | Conestoga Wagon |
| What's the name of the place where conestoga wagons were floated across the Susquehanna River? | Harris Ferry |
| What was the name of PA's most famous canal? | Main Line Canal |
| Were canals used for a long period of time in PA? | No, the Main Line Canal was the outdated |
| What invention replace Conestogas and canals as a better way to move people and goods? | Steam engines - locomotives and boats |
| What seperated PAs Western frontier from the Eastern cities? | The Alleghany Mountains |
| Which 2 men are most associated with the steamboat? | John Fitch and Robert Fulton |
| Who ran a successful steamboat operation from Pittsburgh to New Orleans? | Robert Fulton |
| The discovery of what mneral created an industry in PA? | Iron ore. For most of the 1800s PA was the leader in iron production in the US |
| Why was charcoal used in the production of iron? | it produced a hotter fire |
| What was better than charcoal to make a fire which burn hotter in the production of iron? | coke |
| What are the 2 types of coal? | Hard Coal and Soft Coal |
| What type of coal is found in our area? | Hard Coal |
| What type of coal was found in WEstern PA? | Soft Coal |
| What industry did Williamsport become famous for? | Lumber |
| How did Samuel Keir contribute to PA's industrial revolution? | He built the first oil refinery in Pittsburgh to produce kerosene |
| Who began our nation's oil industry | Edwin Drake |
| What did Edwin Drake build in Titusville, PA? | the very first oil well |
| What is the difference between and agricultural society and an industrial society | An agricultural society provides for itself an industrial society makes goods in large factories. |
| What was the Industrial Revolution in PA | People moved from an agricultural society to an industrial society. |
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