Ch. 8 Westward Expansion

In 1831, Cyrus McCormick invented this machine that was pulled by horses and made cutting grain faster and easier.

• Sewing Machine

• Mechanical Reaper

• Spinning Machine

• Electric Telegraph

A system of dots and dashes used to send messages over wires; first invented in 1844

• Telegraph Code

• Sign Language

• Morse Communication System

• Morse Code

Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, also invented this process that used interchangeable parts to speed up production of an item. The process is called:

• Mass Production

• Cotton Gin

• Spinning Jenny

• Electric Telegraph

True or False: The first national road was finished in 1837, going from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois.

• True

• False

True or False: Robert Fulton invented the first steam boat engine called the Clermont.

• True

• False

A period in history when goods began being made in factories:

• Manifest Destiny

• Industrial Revolution

• Mill Girls

• Westward Expansion

Young women who worked long hours in New England factories:

• Servants

• Slaves

• Mill Girls

• Vaqueros

Who designed water powered machines that produced spun yarn?

• Tom Thumb

• Samuel Slater

• John C. Fremont

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

A man made waterway:

• Canal

• River

• Ocean

• Lake

The name of the first small steam rail engine:

• Spinning Jenny

• Cotton Gin

• Tom Thumb

• Wagon Train