USI.8d Inventions And New Technology Question Preview (ID: 47058)


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Which invention allowed people and goods to travel upriver against the strong river currents?
a) the steam engine
b) the steam gin
c) the steam locomotive
d) the steamboat

Which invention provided faster land transportation?
a) the steam locomotive
b) the Conestoga wagon
c) the steamboat
d) the combine thersher and reaper

Which invention increased the need for slave labor?
a) cotton gin
b) mechanical reaper
c) steamboat
d) steam locomotive

Which invention removed seeds from cotton?
a) cotton gin
b) cotton reaper
c) steam gin
d) thresher

The reaper ___.
a) removed seeds from cotton
b) was faster land transportation
c) cut/harvested grains
d) was less efficient than the scythe

Which invention connected Northern industry to Southern farms and plantations to Western territories?
a) steamboat
b) steam locomotive
c) canals
d) overland trails

Which invention provided faster land transportation during Westward Expansion?
a) steam locomotive
b) overland trails
c) automobiles
d) canals

Which invention increased the need for slave labor?
a) cotton gin
b) reaper
c) steel plow
d) steam engine

Which invention increased the productivity of the American farmer?
a) reaper
b) cotton gin
c) steam locomotive
d) steamboat

___ is the inventor who made a steam locomotive on railroad tracks.
a) Richard Trevithick
b) Peter Cooper
c) Jo Anderson
d) Robert Fulton

___ is the entrepreneur who improved the steamboat.
a) Robert Fulton
b) Peter Cooper
c) Richard Trevithick
d) Cyrus McCormick

___ is the enslaved African American who helped invent the mechanical reaper.
a) Jo Anderson
b) Cyrus McCormick
c) Peter Cooper
d) Robert Fulton

___ is the entrepreneur who made a steam locomotive pull a passenger car.
a) Peter Cooper
b) Richard Trevithick
c) Robert Fulton
d) Jo Anderson

___ is the inventor AND entrepreneur of the mechanical reaper.
a) Cyrus McCormick
b) Jo Anderson
c) Robert Fulton
d) Eli Whitney

___ is the inventor of the cotton gin.
a) Eli Whitney
b) Cyrus McCormick
c) Jo Anderson
d) Robert Fulton

A person who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to market in hopes of earning a profit is ___.
a) an entrepreneur
b) an inventor
c) a suffragist
d) an abolitionist

The ___ relied on the tools and and equipment produced in the industrial North.
a) South
b) Southwest
c) North
d) Mid-Atlantic

The first person to think of or create something is ___.
a) an inventor
b) an entrepreneur
c) an abolitionist
d) a suffragist

During the time of expansion industrialization was found primarily in the ___.
a) North
b) South
c) West
d) Mid-Atlantic

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