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Name: ____________________  Chapter 8 - Moving West 

Lesson 1 - Inventions, Roads and Railroads Objective 1:

Objective 2: 

What did inventions help people make? ● 

Cotton Gin ●  Invented by:

●  Increased _______________ production Mechanical Reaper  

●  Invented by : ●  Made cutting ____________________ easier  

Sewing Machine ●  Invented by: ●  Reduced the _________________ it took to sew a piece of clothing 

Telegraph/Morse Code ●  Invented by: ●  Allowed ____________________ to be sent over wires 

Interchangeable parts ●  Invented by: ●  The idea of interchangeable parts was to make many goods at the same time which is

known as _________________________  

Industrial Revolution ●  A period when there was a shift from making goods by hand in a ____________ to

making them in a _______________. ●  Workers went from making their own ___________________ in a house to

 _____________ in a factory. 

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●  Most factories were located in __________________ and __________________. ●  The Industrial Revolution started in ________________ by a man named

 _____________________________. 

Objective 3: 

TRANSPORTATION (p.270-273) ●  Many people in the East moved West because ______________ was scarce. ●  The National Railroad was built by ________________________________.  ●  It ran from ___________________ to ____________________. ●  It became a main route for settlers heading across

 ___________________________________to _____________________. ●  Robert Fulton invented the _________________. ●  What problem did the steam boat solve? 

Erie Canal ●  What is a canal? 

●  What was the benefit of the Erie Canal? ●  It ran from ________________ to _____________________. ●  It carried settlers ______________. ●  It also carried freight _______________ and ________________.

●  The success of the Erie Canal led to _______________. 

The First Railroad ●  Railroads were _____________ to build and run. ●  What was the name of the first Railroad? 

Settling Along Routes ●  Railroads could be laid nearly ________________. ●  ___________________sprung up along the tracks. 

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 Trails to the Southwest 

●  This Santa Fe trail was followed mostly by ______________. Later is was also used to move

 ____________ to and from Santa Fe. ●  Fur traders headed for Santa Fe and sold ___________, ____________, ___________,

 ____________, and _____________

●  The traders took ____________, ___________, __________, and _____________ back toMisouri

●  The early traders on this trail could make great ___________. 

Reaching California ●  A Mexican trader forged a new trail from ____________________ to _____________________

to earn money by selling _________________from New Mexico.  ●  This trail was known as the _____________________. ●  This trail was too rough for ____________ so traders headed to California and along the way

often traded with _______________________. 

Lesson 4: The California Gold Rush (p.292-297) Objective 1: 

Objective 2: 

Objective 3: 

Gold Fever  ●  A _____________________ is a rapid flood of people into an area where gold has been

discovered. ●  It all started in ____________________when a carpenter found gold. ●  In ____________ more than 80,000 people traveled to California. They were known as

 ___________________________. 

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 Searching for Gold What were three reasons mining was dangerous? 

1.

2.

3.

 After 1850 ____________gold was found. 

The Profit Motive ●  The largest gold rush fortunes were made by _________________selling materials needed to

find gold. ●  Supplies were ________________ in mining country and therefore the prices were

 _______________. ●  An __________________is a person who takes risks to start a new business. ●  _________________ produced a new pair of pants made of blue denim that miners wore. 

California Becomes a State ●  Why did California’s population soar? 

●  Both groups of Mexican and Chinese miners faced ____________________________ or unfair

treatment after the gold rush. ●  California passed a law taxing ______________________________. As a result many Mexicans

were forced out. ●  In 1860 the country needed a way to get mail to California. Therefore, the

 _____________________ began which was a system for carrying mail by horse. ●  What were three impacts the gold rush had on California? 1.

2.

3.