Our People, Places, and Past"
manufacture - correct answer to make something from a raw material into a
finished product
Samuel Kier - correct answer built the first oil refinery and made kerosene at it
portage - correct answer to carry something over land
John Fitch and Robert Fulton - correct answer invented steamboats
Mathias Baldwin - correct answer invented the first all-steam train in PA
transport - correct answer to move goods and people
turnpike - correct answer a road you pay money to travel on
Allegheny Portage - correct answer was really a railroad
Edwin Drake - correct answer known for drilling first oil well
industry - correct answer making, selling, and moving of goods and services
canal - correct answer a waterform dug across land for small boats to travel on
gristmill - correct answer important industry that became center of small towns;
used to grind corn, wheat, or other grains into flour. Sometimes used a sawmill