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Land I Love ch. 10
chapter 10 Land I Love
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8th Grade
01/10/2011

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What person invented the telegraph?
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Samuel Morse
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Who made further improvements on Elias Howe's sewing machine?
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Isaac Singer
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Who invented the reaping machine?
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Cyrus McCormick
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What entrepreneur helped make possible the first transatlantic cable?
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Cyrus Field
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Who invented the steel plow?
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John Deere
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Who was credited with introducing ether as an effective pain killer for surgery?
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William Morton
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Why did one and a half million Irish people immigrate to the US?
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to escape the potato famine, which had caused widespread starvation.
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What Canal Linked the Hudson River with Lake Erie?
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Erie Canal
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The major means of transportation for cotton crops from the plantations of the South to the port of New Orleans
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steamboats
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narrow-hulled vessels that dramatically cut travel time
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clipper ships
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Most significant development of the transportation revolution;brought speed, efficiency, and ease of transportation that waterways could not provide
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steam locomotives
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Made harvesting of grain easier
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reaping machine
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machine used to weave cloth
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power loom
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legal rights to inventions
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patents
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Blight of the Irish potato crop in the 1840s that caused widespread starvation in Ireland
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potato famine
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conducted electrical currents over wires in a series of coded messages
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telegraph
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Developed by Samuel Morse for the telegraph
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Morse code
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Underwater telegraph cable connecting Newfoundland to Ireland
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transatlantic cable
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One who risks personal loss to develop and market new products or ideas
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entrepreneur
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fastest mail service available before the telegraph
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Pony Express
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Applied science;the practical use of scientific knowledge
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technology
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