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Inventions USI.8d
Test Description: Important inventions and inventors
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is an inventor?
A
A person who creates something
B
A person who is the first to think of or make something
C
A scientist
D
An artisan
2) Who invented the cotton gin?
A
Eli Whitney
B
Benjamin Banneker
C
Abraham Lincoln
D
Cyrus McCormick
3) What resulted from the invention of the cotton gin?
A
An increase in cotton production and need for slaves.
B
A decrease in raw materials.
C
A decrease in cotton production.
D
An increase in arms production.
4) What invention helped to increase the production of the American farmer?
A
Mechanical reaper
B
Steam engine
C
Steamboat
D
Glass
5) Which entrepreneur worked to bring the reaper to market?
A
Clara Barton
B
Robert Fulton
C
Cyrus McCormick
D
Eli Whitney
6) Which African American worked to bring the reaper to market?
A
Harriet Tubman
B
Crispus Attucks
C
Jo Anderson
D
Benjamin Banneker
7) What invention did Robert Fulton help to improve?
A
Electric car
B
Cotton gin
C
Steamboat
D
Reaper
8) What invention helped to provide faster river transportation?
A
Sail boat
B
Kayak
C
Steam boat
D
Cotton gin
9) What did the steamboat help do?
A
Connect the Rocky Mountains to Canada.
B
Connect the Southern plantations to the Northern factories
C
Connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
D
Connect the Northern plantations to Europe
10) What invention helped provide faster land transportation?
A
Cotton gin
B
Steam boat
C
Mechanical reaper
D
Steam engine
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