19th Century Innovations: Paving the Way Vocabulary

large, flat bottomed boats that carry goods and people on waterways

• barges

• canal

• factory

• immigrants

a waterway dug across land used for the passage of goods and people

• barges

• factory

• canal

• telegraph

the system of buying and selling goods and services

• economy

• innovations

• steamboat

• patents

a building where products are made

• innovations

• telegraph

• factory

• immigrants

an area where few people live

• factory

• frontier

• innovations

• locomotive

people who come to a country to live there

• immigrants

• locomotive

people who come to a country to live there

• immigrants

• locomotive

new ideas, inventions, discoveries, or processes

• factory

• innovations

• immigrants

a train powered by a steam engine

• locomotive

• transcontinental

• manifest dynasty

the idea that the United States had a right to extend its borders to the Pacific Ocean

• surveryor

• Manifest Dynasty

• patents