PA History Chapter 4 Review

the making, moving, and selling of a good or service for profit.

• Company
• Industry

• Production
• Business

official name for oil towers built over the oil wells

• derricks
• platforms
• pumps
• rigs

a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts

• insolvency
• bankruptcy
• debt forgiveness
• financial ruin

town that was destroyed by Confederate troops because the Union refused to pay a ransom to keep the town safe

• Richmond

• Gettysburg

• Chambersburg

• Atlanta

location of the first successful oil well

• Houston

• Titusville

• Anchorage

the most important land trade vehicle of the early 1800s, developed near Lancaster, PA

• Covered wagon
• Stagecoach
• Prairie schooner
• Conestoga wagon

another name for supplies and trade goods

• products
• goods
• freight

• merchandise

money paid to use a service, particularly a road

• Toll
• Tax
• Charge
• Fee

the first person to drill a successful oil well in PA

• Thomas Edison
• Nikola Tesla
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Edwin Drake

elected as the 15th President of the U.S.; from Pennsylvania

• James Buchanan
• Andrew Johnson
• John Adams
• Abraham Lincoln