Chapter 8 - The Emergence of a Market Economy (1815-1850)

Who invented the steamboat 1804?

• Cyrus Mc Cormick
• Elias Howe
• Samuel F.B. Morse
• Robert Fulton

Who invented the cotton gin 1793?

• Robert Fulton
• John Deer
• Cyrus Mc Cormick
• Eli Whitney

Who invented the telegraph in 1840?

• James Hargreaves
• John Deer
• Samuel Morse
• John Montressor

Who invented the cast steel plow?

• Eli Whitney
• John Deere
• Samuel Morse
• Wright Brothers

Who invented the Mechanical Reaper?

• Cyrus McCormick
• Eli Whitney
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell

Because they too had suffered discrimination, Irish immigrants tended to be sympathetic to blacks

• True

• False

Which immigrant group came to America because of a famine in their country?

• Germans
• Irish
• Italians
• French

Women in the early 19th century were allowed to work in any profession they wished.

• True

• False

The question in the early 19th century about spending government funds on infrastructure was, was it constitutional.

• True

• False

John Deere's plow is credited with transforming the American west.

• True

• False