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Ch 6 PA History WES
Ch 6 PA Wellsville
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is our country's plan of government? | constitution |
| Representatives sent to the convention | delegates |
| Name the Virginia delegate who took notes of what was said at the Constitutional Convention | James Madison |
| Washington stayed with this PA delegate | Robert Morris |
| Who was the wife of one of the delegates arranged parties but did not attend the convention | Eliza Powell |
| _________________ is the way to move goods and people from one place to another | transportation |
| A boat with a large paddle wheel that is powered by steam | steamboat |
| An inland waterway built for transportation | canal |
| The first major road in the US was the ___________ ________________ | Lancaster Turnpike |
| A canal that shipped goods cheaper and faster than overland was the _______ ________ __________ _______ | PA Main Line Canal |
| ______________ ______________ built a steamboat named the New Orleans | Robert Fulton |
| all the businesses that make one kind of goods | Industry |
| Soft coal found in western PA | bituminous |
| Hard coal found in eastern PA | anthracite |
| The place where oil was discovered in PA | Titusville |
| The person who found oil in PA | Edwin Drake |
| Crops grown and sold for money | cash crop |
| A method of farming in which a different crop is planted in the same soil each year | crop rotation |
| A person or machine that cuts and gathers grain | reaper |
| The number of people who live in a place or area | population |
| The man who invented the mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
| Diagrams that show a lot of information and or compare facts and figures. | graphs |
| A graph made out of a circle | circle or pie graph |
| A graph that show how a piece of information changes over time. | line graph |
| In 1790, our country's capital was moved to ______________ | Philadelphia |
| In 1800, the US built a new capital along the Potomac River in _____________________ | Washington, DC |
| Boats not powered by steam or said, but pulled by mules or oxen were ___________ ____________ | canal boats |
| The first steam train to run on rails in our country in 1829 was called the ___________ ________________ | Stourbridge Lion |
| Money paid to use the turnpike (we do this when we go see Uncle John) | toll |
| Yarn and thread making machines increased production in the ____________ industry | textile |
| A quickly growing town | boom town |
| _________ ___________ learned how to make oil usable in lamps | Samuel Kier |
| Many immigrants from ___________ and __________ increased PA population in the early 1800s | Germany and Ireland |
| Soft coal can be heated to make a solid fuel called ____________ | coke |
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