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| Answer |
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| 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No, the Main Line Canal was the outdated |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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