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USI.8d Inventions And New Technology
Test Description: Inventions and New Technology
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) During the time of expansion industrialization was found primarily in the ___.
A
Mid-Atlantic
B
North
C
South
D
West
2) The ___ relied on the tools and and equipment produced in the industrial North.
A
Mid-Atlantic
B
North
C
Southwest
D
South
3) The first person to think of or create something is ___.
A
an entrepreneur
B
a suffragist
C
an inventor
D
an abolitionist
4) A person who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to market in hopes of earning a profit is ___.
A
a suffragist
B
an entrepreneur
C
an inventor
D
an abolitionist
5) ___ is the inventor of the cotton gin.
A
Eli Whitney
B
Jo Anderson
C
Robert Fulton
D
Cyrus McCormick
6) ___ is the inventor AND entrepreneur of the mechanical reaper.
A
Jo Anderson
B
Cyrus McCormick
C
Eli Whitney
D
Robert Fulton
7) ___ is the entrepreneur who improved the steamboat.
A
Richard Trevithick
B
Robert Fulton
C
Peter Cooper
D
Cyrus McCormick
8) ___ is the enslaved African American who helped invent the mechanical reaper.
A
Jo Anderson
B
Cyrus McCormick
C
Peter Cooper
D
Robert Fulton
9) ___ is the entrepreneur who made a steam locomotive pull a passenger car.
A
Jo Anderson
B
Robert Fulton
C
Richard Trevithick
D
Peter Cooper
10) ___ is the inventor who made a steam locomotive on railroad tracks.
A
Richard Trevithick
B
Robert Fulton
C
Peter Cooper
D
Jo Anderson
11) Which invention increased the productivity of the American farmer?
A
cotton gin
B
steamboat
C
steam locomotive
D
reaper
12) Which invention increased the need for slave labor?
A
cotton gin
B
steam engine
C
reaper
D
steel plow
13) Which invention connected Northern industry to Southern farms and plantations to Western territories?
A
canals
B
steam locomotive
C
overland trails
D
steamboat
14) Which invention provided faster land transportation during Westward Expansion?
A
canals
B
steam locomotive
C
overland trails
D
automobiles
15) Which invention increased the need for slave labor?
A
steamboat
B
steam locomotive
C
cotton gin
D
mechanical reaper
16) Which invention removed seeds from cotton?
A
steam gin
B
cotton gin
C
cotton reaper
D
thresher
17) The reaper ___.
A
removed seeds from cotton
B
cut/harvested grains
C
was faster land transportation
D
was less efficient than the scythe
18) Which invention allowed people and goods to travel upriver against the strong river currents?
A
the steam engine
B
the steamboat
C
the steam gin
D
the steam locomotive
19) Which invention provided faster land transportation?
A
the combine thersher and reaper
B
the steam locomotive
C
the Conestoga wagon
D
the steamboat
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