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13 Cards in this Set
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Industry |
Making, moving, and selling goods and services |
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Telecommunications |
Device that allows people to communicate and learn new things over distances |
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Why was a transportation system needed? |
It was needed for our states’ industrial development, because the only way to travel was by horse, which was very slow |
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Gristmill |
A place for grinding grain, such as corn and wheat. Flour was used by farmers to make many products |
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Sawmill |
A place where moving water turned a saw blade to cut logs into lumber for home and barns |
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Conestoga wagon |
Contributed to the states’ industrial development, because for 100 years, it was the only one strong enough to haul supplies and trade goods to pioneers who settled our state frontier |
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Ferry boat |
A boat that carries people and wagons and goods across a water form |
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Toll |
Travelers and traders paid money to travel a road |
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Pike |
A gate at the toll |
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Turnpike |
A gate or a Pike, at which Travelers and traders paid money to use a road. After the money was paid the pike was turned |
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Allegheny Mountains |
Separated the western frontier from the Eastern towns and cities |
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Pennsylvania turnpike |
Road that extends from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Ohio now, built over the Allegheny Mountains |
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Satellites |
A mechanical object which is launched into space to orbit the Earth |
