In 1793, ___________ invented the cotton gin it quickly removed the seeds from picked cotton allowing a huge increase in production.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Langhorne Clemens

• Robert Frost

Eli Whitney received a contract with the U.S. government to produce 10,000 rifles. He invented a manufacturing method known as ____________ to produce weapons that could use the same components.

• interchangeable parts

• gins

• patents

• mixable components

In 1790, Congress passed a law to protect the rights of inventors. They could file a ________ with the government to protect their creation.

• copyright

• patent

• technology writ

• engineers schemata

__________ is an economic system that allows individuals and businesses to own property and decide how they will use it to make money.

• Communism

• Socialism

• Capitalism

• Fundamentalism

In a ____________ system, people are free to work wherever they wish, and to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want.

• communistic

• mercantile

• Free Enterprise

• socialistic

The southern states depended on agriculture. The most important crop in the South was ___________.

• Tobacco

• Cotton

• Beans

• Rice

Northeastern states relied on manufacturing and the production of cloth in the _________ industry.

• iron

• textile

• paper

• indigo

Private companies built ________, or private toll roads, for Americans to use to travel and ships goods.

• canals

• turnpikes

• interstate highways

• trails

Robert Fulton was hired to design and build the first __________ to be used to transport people up the Hudson River from New York to Albany.

• steamboat

• Sail boat

• Row boat

• Ironclad ship

A ____________ is an artificial, manmade waterway used to transport people and goods from one place to another.

• ship

• tunnel

• bridge

• canal