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Ch 6 PA Wellsville

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What is our country's plan of government?   constitution  
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Representatives sent to the convention   delegates  
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Name the Virginia delegate who took notes of what was said at the Constitutional Convention   James Madison  
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Washington stayed with this PA delegate   Robert Morris  
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Who was the wife of one of the delegates arranged parties but did not attend the convention   Eliza Powell  
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_________________ is the way to move goods and people from one place to another   transportation  
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A boat with a large paddle wheel that is powered by steam   steamboat  
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An inland waterway built for transportation   canal  
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The first major road in the US was the ___________ ________________   Lancaster Turnpike  
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A canal that shipped goods cheaper and faster than overland was the _______ ________ __________ _______   PA Main Line Canal  
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______________ ______________ built a steamboat named the New Orleans   Robert Fulton  
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all the businesses that make one kind of goods   Industry  
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Soft coal found in western PA   bituminous  
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Hard coal found in eastern PA   anthracite  
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The place where oil was discovered in PA   Titusville  
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The person who found oil in PA   Edwin Drake  
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Crops grown and sold for money   cash crop  
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A method of farming in which a different crop is planted in the same soil each year   crop rotation  
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A person or machine that cuts and gathers grain   reaper  
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The number of people who live in a place or area   population  
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The man who invented the mechanical reaper   Cyrus McCormick  
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Diagrams that show a lot of information and or compare facts and figures.   graphs  
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A graph made out of a circle   circle or pie graph  
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A graph that show how a piece of information changes over time.   line graph  
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In 1790, our country's capital was moved to ______________   Philadelphia  
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In 1800, the US built a new capital along the Potomac River in _____________________   Washington, DC  
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Boats not powered by steam or said, but pulled by mules or oxen were ___________ ____________   canal boats  
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The first steam train to run on rails in our country in 1829 was called the ___________ ________________   Stourbridge Lion  
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Money paid to use the turnpike (we do this when we go see Uncle John)   toll  
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Yarn and thread making machines increased production in the ____________ industry   textile  
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A quickly growing town   boom town  
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_________ ___________ learned how to make oil usable in lamps   Samuel Kier  
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Many immigrants from ___________ and __________ increased PA population in the early 1800s   Germany and Ireland  
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Soft coal can be heated to make a solid fuel called ____________   coke  
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