4th Grade Social Studies
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| progress | to move ahead
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| grind | to crush
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| services | transporting, moving, and selling items
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| transport | to move goods or people
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| portage | to carry something
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| gristmill | a large building located on a stream to grind grains into flour
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| sawmills | buildings where lumber is cut into boards
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| ferryboat | large raft used to float wagons across rivers
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| turnpike | a road in which travelers paid a toll to turn the gate or pike
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| canal | a waterway dug across land for small boats to go through
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| industry | making, selling, moving of goods, products and services.
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| steamboats | boats with a steam engine that are moved by a paddle wheel
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| railroads | long cars that are connected and moved over iron tracks
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| locomotives | the engine that pushes or pulls a train
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| iron ore | metal ore used to make steel
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| coke | a product make from soft coal
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| kerosene | a refined product of oil
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| oil | a product of a fossil fuel
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| textile | clothing and household materials
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| refined | made into a good
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| What are the 2 parts of industry? | 1. making goods2. servicing goods
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| what is the name of the sturdy wagon used to get goods over the Alleghany Mountains to Pittsburgh? | Conestoga Wagon
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| What's the name of the place where conestoga wagons were floated across the Susquehanna River? | Harris Ferry
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| What was the name of PA's most famous canal? | Main Line Canal
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| Were canals used for a long period of time in PA? | No, the Main Line Canal was the outdated
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| What invention replace Conestogas and canals as a better way to move people and goods? | Steam engines - locomotives and boats
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| What seperated PAs Western frontier from the Eastern cities? | The Alleghany Mountains
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| Which 2 men are most associated with the steamboat? | John Fitch and Robert Fulton
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| Who ran a successful steamboat operation from Pittsburgh to New Orleans? | Robert Fulton
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| 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
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| Why was charcoal used in the production of iron? | it produced a hotter fire
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| What was better than charcoal to make a fire which burn hotter in the production of iron? | coke
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| What are the 2 types of coal? | Hard Coal and Soft Coal
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| What type of coal is found in our area? | Hard Coal
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| What type of coal was found in WEstern PA? | Soft Coal
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| What industry did Williamsport become famous for? | Lumber
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| How did Samuel Keir contribute to PA's industrial revolution? | He built the first oil refinery in Pittsburgh to produce kerosene
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| Who began our nation's oil industry | Edwin Drake
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| What did Edwin Drake build in Titusville, PA? | the very first oil well
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| 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.
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| What was the Industrial Revolution in PA | People moved from an agricultural society to an industrial society.
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