Industrial Inventions Quiz

This was the first fast and inexpensive way to make steel.

• Bessemer Process

• Cotton Gin

• Telegraph

• Railroad

This led to building bigger, stronger buildings

• Bessemer Process

• Steamboat

• Canals

• The Reaper

Eli Whitney is credited with creating which pair of inventions?

• The Cotton Gin and Interchangeable Parts

• The Reaper and the Cotton Gin

• The Steam Engine and Interchangeable Parts

• Hot Dogs and Nuclear Fisson

This water-based transportation connected the East and the Midwest

• The Erie Canal

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Clermont

• Skateboards

This is how the machine 'ginned' cotton

• Removed the seeds from cotton

• Washed and dried the cotton

• Picked the cotton from the field

• Wove the cotton into cloth

The Transcontinental Railroad was built by...

• Chinese and Irish Immigrants

• John Henry

• Steam Engines

• McCormack's Reaper

This, more than any other invention, helped Americans move west

• The Railroad

• The cotton gin

• the Bessemer Process

• The Telegraph

This was the first instant long-distance communication device, sending signals along a wire.

• The Telegraph

• The Cell Phone

• Letters

• The Bessemer Process

This invention led directly to an increase in the slave population of the United States

• the Cotton Gin

• the Telegraph

• the Steel Plow

• Canals

This invention allowed farmers to harvest more grain faster.

• The Mechanical Reaper

• the Cotton Gin

• The Plow

• the Bessemer Process