| A | B |
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| New York | Became the leading commercial center of the country |
| Canals | DeWitt Clinton was determined to develop these. |
| 10 miles | How many miles did a Pony Express rider travel before changing horses? |
| Irish | What people suffered most from the potato famine? |
| Woman doctor | Elizabeth Blackwell was the first one. |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Books written by Samuel Clemens |
| Birds | John James Audubon was famous for his paintings of these. |
| central heating, gas lights, kerosene lamps | Modern improvements to homes |
| reaping machine | machine that helped get the wheat crop in. |
| Telegraph | uses dots and dashes to communicate |
| steel plow | invented by John Deere |
| power loom | Used to weave bolts of calico |
| entrepreneur | One who risks personal loss to develop new ideas |
| technology | the practical application of science |
| New Orleans | Steamboats caused this city to boom |
| patent | Legal protection of one's invention |
| anesthesia | Helped deaden the pain in surgery |
| clipper ships | Developed to speed transoceanic travel |
| William Morton | Introduced effective pain killer for surgery |
| Louis Agassiz | Famous science teacher |
| Isaac Singer | Invented the sewing machine |
| Cyrus Field | Laid the Transatlantic cable |
| Matthew Maury | "pathfinder of the Seas" |
| Erie Canal | linked the Hudson River with Lake Erie |
| "Clinton's Ditch" | What opponents of Clinton called the Erie Canal |
| Robert Fulton | Developed the first successful steamboat |
| Mark Twain | Samuel Clemens' pen name |
| Richard Henry Dana | Wrote "Two Years Before the Mast" |
| "crow's nest" | Name for the lookout positioned high atop the mast |
| Whale dragging the boat | What was "Nantucket sleigh ride?" |
| steam locomotive | What was the 'iron horse?" |
| steam locomotive | The most significant development of the transportation revolution |
| Cyrus McCormick | Invented the reaping machine |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | improved the power loom for rapid weaving of cloth |
| Elias Howe | improved the sewing machine to sew cloth and leather |
| miner's safety lamp | the most important invention for the safety of coal miners |
| Pennsylvanian, New York, Ohio | became the manufacturing centers for steel |
| Lowell system | System in which the employer brought the efficiency and virtue of the Protestant work ethic to the factory system. |
| Lowell system | In this type of system the workplace was not dangerous, and no one was allowed to drink alcohol, and workers attended church. |
| Lowell Offering | Monthly magazine published by women who worked in the mill |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | Invented the telegraph |
| electricity | the ability to send electrical impulses by wire |
| Pony Express | Mail delivery system by horse in St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Agassiz | America's greatest science teacher who argued against evolution in favor of creation |
| Crawford Long | Used ether to induce a "deep sleep" so his patients would not feel the knife but Morton got the credit for the pain killer. |
| Horace Wells | Used nitrous oxide to ease the pain of dental work |
| swill milk | a waste material from liquor production used to feed cows |
