inventions

Inventions

Read each slide carefully; then answer the questions.

Multiple Choice

The first person to think of or create something is ___.

• an inventor

• an entrepreneur

• an abolitionist

• a suffragist

Multiple Choice

A person who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to market in hopes of earning a profit is ___.

• an inventor

• an entrepreneur

• an abolitionist

• a suffragist

Multiple Select

Select ALL that apply: The steam locomotive ___.

• provided faster land transportation

• increased trade

• made transportation cheaper

• increased farming productivity

Multiple Choice

What invention made possible the growth of railroads?

• the spinning jenny

• the factory

• macadamized roads

• the steam locomotive

Before the Steamboat

Before steamboats, farmers built flatboats that floated downriver to carry their goods to sell.

Before the Steamboat

Before steamboats, farmers built flatboats that floated downriver to carry their goods to sell.

^{Disadvantage of Flatboat}

Once they reached their destination, farmers sold the wood from their boats and then walked back home—sometimes over hundreds of miles—because the flatboats could not travel back upstream.

Multiple Choice

How did the steamboat change river travel and river trade?

• people were able to ride on boats

• steamboats allowed for travel upstream as well as downstream in a river

• steamboats made river travel more dangerous

• steamboats made goods more expensive

Multiple Choice

Who improved the steamboat?

• Jo Anderson
• Robert Fulton
• Cyrus McCormick
• Eli Whitney

Multiple Choice

What was the name of Fulton's steamboat?

• Tom Thumb

• Clermont

• Singer

• McCorminck

Multiple Choice

Jo Anderson was a slave who helped Cyrus McCormick invent the reaper.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

What important invention is shown above?

• steamboat

• mechanical reaper

• cotton gin

• steam locomotive

Multiple Select

These two men created the reaper.

• Jo Anderson

• Cyrus McCormick

• Peter Cooper

• Thomas Edison

• Robert Fulton

Multiple Choice

The invention of the reaper increased the productivity of the American farmer.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Using ______labor, the South raised millions of bales of cotton each year.

• slave

• child

• foreign

• women's

• all the answers are correct

Multiple Choice

What is meant by cleaning cotton?

• Washing it in soapy water

• Boiling the fibers until the seeds melt

• Picking the tiny seeds from the bolls of cotton

• Hanging cotton in dry spaces until the cotton is clean

Multiple Choice

How did the Cotton Gin affect slavery?

• Plantation owners needed less slaves.

• It didn't affect it.

• Plantation owners needed more slaves.

• Plantation owners no longer needed slaves.

Multiple Choice

Which states benefited the most from the Cotton Gin?

• The northern states.

• The southern states.

• The states that had the most factories.

• The states along the western coast.

Multiple Choice

What did the Cotton Gin do?

• It picked cotton a lot faster than a person could.

• It sowed cotton seeds a lot faster than a person could.

• It spun cotton into thread a lot faster than a person could.

• It removed the seeds from cotton a lot faster than a person could