Innovations

The Erie Canal covers which state?

• Buffalo

• Albany

• Vermont

• New York

What is the name of the
man-made waterway that connects Lake Erie to the Hudson River
and then to the Atlantic Ocean

• Panama Canal
• Buffalo River
• Niagara Falls
• Erie Canal

What was the Erie Canal used for?

• Disney cruises
• Test battle ships
• Drinking water for the city of Buffalo
• Ship goods faster and cheaper to the Atlantic Ocean

Which of the following inventions from the early 1800s made the transportation of people and goods across rivers and canals much faster and easier?

• Steamboat
• Steam Locomotive
• Air Plane
• Telegraph

What made the cotton gin such a useful invention?

• It was invented by the great Eli Whitney.

• It removed seeds from cotton efficiently.

• It increased slave labor.

• It became the South's main source of income.

The man who invented the cotton gin was...

• Samuel Slater
• Michael Rodriguez
• Francis Weber
• Eli Whitney

Abolish means to....

• separate
• get rid of
• make more of
• bring together

This invention connected the east with California, encouraged the building of telegraph lines, and increased transportation and trade.

• steamboat

• National Road

• railroads (Transcontinental Railroad)

This invention helped to promote trade and made settlement easier to the West. In addition, this invention was the first improved highway built by the federal government. It connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers.

• Erie Canal

• National Road

• Transcontinental Road

Railroad owners wanted more people to settle on the Great Plains because...

• farmers would use the railroads to ship products to markets in the cities
• they needed more people to build railroad tracks
• they needed sharecroppers to farm the land owned by the railroads
• settlers would grow cotton and ship it to the south