Road to the Civil War/Civil War
Across
- 4. American industrialist; he developed a steel plow to ease difficulty of turning thick soil on the Great Plains.
- 5. American engineer and inventor, he built the first commercially successful full-sized steamboat, the Clermont, which led to the development of commercial steamboat ferry services for goods and services.
Down
- 1. the rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation.
- 2. a machine perfected by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1832 that uses pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through wires.
- 3. American artist and inventor, he applied scientists' discoveries of electricity and magnetism to develop the telegraph, which soon sent messages all across the country.