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What becomes leading commershal nation

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Nyc

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What does the Erie cannas connect

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Hudson River and Lake Erie

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What’s the nickname for the Erie Canal

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Chitons ditch

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Who made canal

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Dinwity Clinton

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How go west on the canals

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New englanders and immigrants

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How much fast was it to travel by water

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9x faster

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Who developed 1st successful steam boat

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Robert Fulton

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What’s a river race

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2 ppl race from 1 port to another in a steam boat

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Who is Samuel Clemons also know as

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Mark twain

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Who’s Samuel Clemons

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A famous steam boat captain

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Steam boat made ___________ a major port city

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New Orleans

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Who far Cana clipper ship go in 1 day

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460 nautical miles

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Who designs clipper ship

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Donald Micay

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Why did the clipper ship get its name

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Because it clipped throught the water (it was fast)

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Why did the clipper ship clip

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Because of the small front

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1840-1860

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The golden era of sail

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What did the clipper ship do

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Cut trip from nyc to San Fran in half from 6 to 3 mouths

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What did SC have

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A 136 pay to ride rail road

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By 1857 5 rail road lines went from ____________ ,__________,________

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Nyc Philly Baltimore

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Where did the coal and iron come from for the rail roads

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PA

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What was the benefit of railroads

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Fast and more efficient in all types of weather than water was

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What wails did they want durring whaling adventures

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Sperm Wales

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Why did they want sperm whales

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For the oil sack in them

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Where was the best place for whaling

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Pacific Ocean

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What's the crows nest
Party of a whaling ship where they yelled "there she blows from"
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How long was a whaleiing adventure
4 yrs
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What a Nantucket slay ride
When a whale pulls your boat
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What did whaling ships do
They brought missionary's to the Bahamas
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What's a family farm
Farm owned by a family and every family member worked on it
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What was the most read book on the farm
Bible
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In this part of history ____ precent of ppl live where
80 precent on farms
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Who much of the worlds cotton was grow in the south
7/8ths
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What did family farms instill
Pride profit discipline responsibility
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Name a famous poet
Lucy larcum
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Who invented the sowing machine
Elise Howe
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Who makes improvements to the home sowing machine
Issac singer
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Who made the power lome
Francis Cabit Lowell
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He many Irish came to the new world and why'd the come
1.5 million cam because of the potato famine in Ireland
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How many Germans game to the new world and why did the come
1 million and the came to for religious and social freedoms
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What are the two main groups that come to the new world and what were they all coming for
Germans and Irish | For freedoms and for work
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Who developed mores code
Samuel Mores
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What was the first message sent throught a telegraph and what was it from
What hath God wrought from numbers 23:3
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What is mores code
A code of dots a dashes used to send messages
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What did mores get precision to do
Make a line from wash. D.C. To Baltimore
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What is telegraph
Sending messages my using impulses in wire
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Who is the path finder of the sea
Matthew Murray
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Who found the pat between NY and Ireland to connect to England
Matter Murray
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What was the first message through the transatlantic cable to England
Glory to God in the highest
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Who's the ontriprinuer of the transatlantic cable
Cyrus feild
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What is an entrepreneur
A person who risks personal loss for development and market of a new product
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Pony express starts in _______and ends in_______
Starts in At Joseph Missouri ends in San Fran cally
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How long did the pony express last
About a year and a half
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What replaced the pony express
The telegraph
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What was the fastest mail see ace till the telegraph
Pony express
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Who developed the steel plow
John Deere
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Who developed the reaper machine
Cyrus McCormick
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What did Cyrus McCormick give money to
Dewite Clemons ministry
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Who's Americas greatest science teacher
Louis Agassie
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who's famous for painting atomically correct north american animals (lots of birds)
john james audobon
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famous natrualist and scientist
john james audobond
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who published the book origan of species and ehat type of book was it
darwin
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who oposed darwins theory
augisse
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whos the first person to succesfully remove a tumor and how much did it weigh
ephraim Mcdonald it was 22 and a half lbs
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who did digestive system tests
willliam beumont
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who invented the either but never got it patent
crowford long
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who patented crowford longs either and is given credit for inventing it
william martin
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what does anastesha mean
absence of pain
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who invented the miners safety lamp
sir Humphrey gilbert
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what do men mine at this time
coal and iron
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where are the main coal and steel mines at
PA Ohio and also in NY
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what called for more coal
steam engine
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what is mash
left over grain from making whiskey
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what ios swill milk
milf from cows that ate mash
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what stops swill milk
rail road
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what do cast-iron pipes do
bring clean drinking water to houses
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what do they use carosine for
lighting heating and lamps

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