Chapter 11, Section 2 & 3 Flashcards
Urbanization
Increased city population due to movement of people from rural
areas to cities
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
What is a telegraph?
Device that used electrical signals to send messages
Who created the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
What is the mechanical reaper?
Cut stalks of wheat many times faster than humans
could
What does a thresher do?
Separate the grains from the rest of the plant
Who improved the current sewing machine?
Issac singer
who had made a machine that could sew seams in
cloth
Elias Howe
who built the first practical steam powered ship and what was its name
Robert fulton built the “clermont”
What is a clipper ship??
Long, thin, sleek vessels with very tall masts
who built a steam locomotive in 1830
Peter Cooper
what was the time period when Ireland lost its potato crops
Potato famine
who fled to the U.S after many failed rebellions?
German newcomers
Who wanted to preserve the country for white
American born protestants.
Nativists
What did eli whittey make
cotton gin
