Transportation and Communication Inventions

Which invention was a type of communications device?

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Mechanical Reaper

• Cotton Gin

• Telegraph

Which invention was *NOT* involved in the production of textiles (cloth)?

• Transcontinental railroad

• Cotton Gin

• Power loom

• Spinning Jenny

Which invention was a type of factory that ran on hydro power? 

• Combine Harvester

• Bessemer Process

• Telegraph

• Textile Mill

Which of the following inventions was *NOT* an invention that improved transportation?

• Clipper

• Canal

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Bessemer Process

Which invention led to an increase in both agriculture and slavery?

• Cotton Gin

• Bessemer Process

• Steamboat

• Transcontinental Railroad

This type of invention moves goods and people.

• Communication

• Transportation

• Agriculture

• Manufacturing

Another word for cloth.

• canal

• transcontinental

• textile

• interchangeable

Which of the following would *NOT* have interchangeable parts?

• A ballpoint pen

• A modern gun

• Cell phone chargers

• Hand-made shoes

Another word for a man-made waterway.

• Transcontinental

• Textile

• Canal

• Interchangeable

This invention moved production of manufactured goods out of the home.

• Bessemer Process

• Combine Harvester

• Cotton Gin

• Factory System