Social Studies Chapter 7
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Robert Fulton | developed the first steamboat |
| Nathaniel Rochester | mapped out the town of Rochester |
| Gloversville | the center of the New York leather industry |
| Wedding of the Waters | when DeWitt Clinton poured water from the Lake Erie into the Atlantic Ocean |
| famine | time when there is shortage of food |
| Red Jacket | Seneca leader who did not want to sell land to the Holland Land Company |
| Rochester | the first "boomtown" |
| frontier | the edge of a settled area |
| Big Tree Treaty | an agreement in which the Senecas sold nearly all their land to the Holland Land Company |
| War of 1812 | A war between the U. S. and Great Britain |
| Treaty of Ghent | The treaty signed in 1814 by the U.S. and Great Britain the ended the War of 1812 |
| canal | a waterway built for transportation or irrigation |
| lock | a kind of water elevator that moves boats within a canal to higher or lower levels |
| toll | a small fee people pay to use a canal, bridge or road |
| DeWitt Clinton | mayor of NYC, created the Erie Canal |
| industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or service |
| tanning | a way of scraping or soaking the skins in a mixture of water and tree bark |
| Industrial Revolution | A sudden major change in 1850's when power-driven tools replaced hand tools |
| factory | a place where goods are made in large numbers |
| Hudson River School | a group of artists that painted in a similar style and made NY an important center for art |
| immigrant | people who come to a new country to live |
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