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Section 12-3 - 12-4
Term | Definition |
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Chicago | A ideal transport hub that lived on lake michigan, This city grew quite quickly! |
Coal | In high demand due to the rise of locomotives. |
Deforestation | As houses and press grew, More lumber was needed resulting in large amounts of deforestation. |
Gibbons v. Ogden | The court reinforced states power over trade and regulating it. |
Peter Cooper | Built the thumb and showed the power of locomotives by nearly beating a horse carriage before it broke down. |
Railroad Industry | A large industry that a lot of states used to make their cities larger. |
Robert fulton | created the Clermont in france and showed locomotive power. |
Steamboat | A steam engine built into a boat to make it faster. Was also popular along steam trains. |
Steel | Used for train tracks and for building factories. |
Cyrus McCormick | Developed the mechanical reaper. |
Isaac Singer | created sewing machines and allowed people to buy them on credit. |
Morse Code | Different combinations of dots and dashes to create a alphabet and talk to people over large distances. |
Telegraph | Using morse code, the telegraph was a machine that transported electricity over wire and made dots and dashes to talk to other users of the device. |