| A | B |
| John Fitch built a steam powered boat | this first steam-powered boat didn't work well |
| Robert Fulton built a steam-powered boat that worked | The Clermont |
| Chinese goods that Americans wanted | silk, chinnamon, firecrackers, tea |
| Packets | swift boats that made the trip from China to the U.S. quickly (six months) |
| John Griffiths designed a new, faster ship | Clipper Ships |
| A canal that connected the Mediterranean and Red Sea | Suez Canal |
| Faster trains replaced | slower ships |
| Tom Thumb | a train that lost a race with a horse |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | invented Morse code to communicate over the wires |
| Morse code allowed information | to quickly be sent through the country |
| Steam power caused | Northern industry to grow rapidly |
| John Deere | fashioned a light weight plow in 1837 |
| Cycus McCorkmick | created a reaper that harvested faster |
| Walter Hunt | inventor of the safety pin |
| Elias Howe and Isaac Singer | worked together to combine their sewing machine idea |
| Walter Hunt did not get a patent on the sewing machine | He didn'twant to put seamstresses out of work |
| Alexander Cartwright | drew up a set of rules for baseball |
| European scientists proved that wires could transmit | electricity |