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Westward Expansion: Inventors Quiz

Authored by Alex Greenman

Social Studies

5th Grade

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Westward Expansion: Inventors Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

Eli Whitney

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Robert Fulton

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the cotton gin do?

Made the cotton into clothes

Cut down the cotton plants in the field

It took out the hard, sharp seeds from the cotton plant

It took off the leaves from the cotton plant

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which is the BEST definition for entrepreneur?

A person that takes a risk in a new product for business to make a profit

Someone that invents something

Someone that is very good at something

A person that turns raw materials into finished goods

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The BEST definition of an inventor is:

A person that makes a new product or develops a new way of making something

A person that gets rich from discovering something

A person that travels around the country, selling a product

A person that makes money from the sale of goods

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why was the Reaper invented?

To save time and manpower harvesting the fields

To give protection from the weather to farmers

To help pay for the cost of seeds

To make it easier to transport food to market

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Farmers were quick to start using the time-saving reaper, because it did the work of 10 men in a fraction of the time.

True

False

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The reaper was invented by a man from Virginia.

True

False

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