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| one of the first of a certain group to enter or settle a region |
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the edge of a country or a settled area |
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| This is land purchased from France because the French needed money for a war with Great Britain. Jefferson was president at the time. This doubled the size of our country. |
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| President Jefferson wanted to know about the land west of the Mississippi River. He sent a group of soldiers led by Meriwether Lewis and Willam Clark to explore. This exploration began in May of 1804. It was called the Corps of Discovery. |
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| Sacagawea was hired to join the team and became an interpreter. |
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| An interpreter explains what is said in one language to people who speak a different language. |
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What did Lewis and Clark learn about the West? |
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| They studied the land, animals and peoples, and found there was no all-water route to the Pacific. They crossed the Rockies. |
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| Why was Lewis and Clark's exploraton of the land west of the Mississippi River so important? |
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| They collected important information about the land and people beyond the Mississippi River and made maps of the area. |
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| an official statement or position |
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suffrage: What does it mean? What amendment allowed women to vote? |
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| Suffrage means the right to vote. It was the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote. |
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| Why were rivers important in the exploration of the West? |
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| People used rivers to travel and to transport goods. Water was essential. |
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| What is "mother necessity"? |
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| "Invention is the mother of necessity", meaning out of needs, comes new inventions. New inventions generally make our life better. |
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This was a period of our history when machines were used to make goods quickly and improve transportation. These changes in manufacturing and transportation are known as the Industrial Revolution. |
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| A person who takes risks to start new businesses. |
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| Division of labor is a method in which work is divided among several people. |
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| Interchangeable parts are parts made by a machine to be exactly the same so that any of them can fit into another product with the same design. |
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Mass Production What does it mean? Give an example of a mass produced product. |
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| Mass production means making many products at once. An example of a mass produced product would be cars. |
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| Productivity is the amount of goods produced in a certain amount of time by a person, machine, or group. |
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List and then describe some changes in transportation during the Industrial Revolution. |
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1. The National Road: orignally an Indian trail that connected Ohio with the East. 2. Steamboats: Robert Fulton built steam powered boats. This gave boats more speed. 3. Canals: These were built by people to link bodies of water. In 1825, the Erie Canal opened, connecting Ohio to the Hudson River. (New York) 4. Transcontinental Railroad: railroad crossing the continent of North America (USA) |
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| A wagon train was a line of covered wgons that moved together. |
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| A forty-niner was a miner who went to California around 1849 during the gold rush. |
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| In a gold rush, many people hurry to the same area to look for gold. |
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| A boomtown is a town whose population booms, or grows very quickly. |
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