Unit 4 Topic 2 Transportation and Movement

What did the Cotton Gin do?

• It picked cotton a lot faster than a person could.

• It sowed cotton seeds a lot faster than a person could.

• It spun cotton into thread a lot faster than a person could.

• It removed the seeds from cotton a lot faster than a person could

How did the Cotton Gin affect slavery?

• Plantation owners needed less slaves.

• It didn't affect it.

• Plantation owners needed more slaves.

• Plantation owners no longer needed slaves.

Why did the invention of the Cotton Gin increase the need for more workers?

• Because plantation owners needed more slaves to grow more cotton.

• Because plantation owners need more slaves to pick seeds out of cotton.

• Because plantation owners needed more slaves to make fabric.

• Because they bought a lot of Cotton Gins and needed more slaves.

A canal is a?

• man made channel

• ocean

• lake

• stream

What Great Lake did the Erie Canal connect to the Hudson River?

• Lake Erie

• Lake Michigan

• Lake Ontario

• Lake Huron

• Lake Superior

The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important to the development of the nation because it

• linked the industrial centers of the North and the South

• allowed the United States Navy to defend the Great Lakes

• forced the Spanish to sell Florida to the United States

• increased trade between the East Coast and the Midwest

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• To make China more powerful.

• To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.

• To make Native Americans move off their land.

• To give immigrants a job, to feel important, and needed in America.

Which animals were greatly affected by the Transcontinental Railroad being built?

• bison

• cattle

• horses

• birds

How did people travel before the Transcontinental Railroad was built?

• bikes and scooters

• boats and planes

• horses and cars

• boats and wagons

What does transcontinental mean?

• to travel across a continent

• to travel from one continent to another continent

• to travel north and south

• to travel to transport goods