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History quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What series of Indian paths became a wagon road through the Appalachians | Great warriors path |
| What pioneer road aided the settlement if Kentucky | Wilderness road |
| What federally founded road settlement of the northwest | The national road |
| How are turnpikes paid for | Toll |
| What was the purpose of the main road | To deliver mail |
| What natural pass did Daniel Boone use through the Appalachians | Cumberland gap |
| Name a city that was both a steamboat and a railroad center | New Orleans |
| From Maryland city did peter cooper take the Tom thumb on its first trip | Baltimore |
| What where the first two cities linked by telegraph | Baltimore and Washington dc |
| Why had there been little inland settlement up to this time | There where few good roads |
| Why cut a westward extension of the road that led into Kentucky | Daniel Boone |
| What we the first federally funded highway called | National road |
| How where river vessels propelled upstream b idea the invention of the steamboat | They used paddles sAils poles tow animals |
| Who built the first commercially successful steamboat | Robert Fulton |
| What canal became the most famous | Erie Canal which connected Albany and Lake Erie |
| When did regular rail service begin | 1831 |
| Who was the first postmaster general of the United states | Samuel osgood |
| What was the pony express | Was the activity for the national postal service |
| Who invented the telegraph | Samuel morse |
| What two cities was the first telegraph message senT through | Washington, D.C. and Baltimore |
| When did telegraph communication first stretch across. North America | 1861 |
| List two reasons for the slow development of the south textile industry | Because they owned and work their lands |
| What system brought workers together and one place to produce many like items | Factory system |
| What Englishman made significant to contributetian to the rise of the systtem through his knowledge of machinery | Samuel slater |
| Who receive the first patent for the sewing machine | Elias how singer |
| What was one negative effect of the rise of industry | Worked six days of the week |
| John Deere invented the | Iron plow |
| Cyrus McCormick invented the | Reaper |
| Eli Whitney invented the | Cotton gin |
| What are two major crops they had grown | Tobacco and cotton |
| What was the first American ship to make trading expedition to China | Empress of China |
| Who were the captains of the empress of China | Johns Deere, Samuel shaw |
| Who was the first American to circumnavigate the earth | Robert Gray. |
| What was the three corner trade route that helped to establish | East coast to west east to China |
| What military leader opened up American trade with Japan | Matthew Perry |
| What eventually made clipper ships abselete | Steamships and railroads |
| Is a carving long whale bone or whale ivory | Scrimshaw |
| What two groups made up the largest number of immigrants in the early 1800s | Ireland's and Germans |
| What you contrasting religious movements marked early 1800s | Unitarianism in the second grade awakening |
| Name three men influential in the revival of the early 19th century | Timothy Dwight Ahsley Nettleton in Charles finney |
| Name one famous Unitarian lieader | Ellery Channing |
| Why did American reformers want a public school system | They wanted them to grow up and be a good citizen |
| Name the two most famous female abolished of the day | Elizabeth Caddy Stanton Lucretia Mott |
| These groups conquer shorter workdays reeducation and the end of child labor mom | Labor union |
| These water compartments open and shut to raise and lower ships traveling by canal | Locks |
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