CHAPTER 10 TEST

Match the following names of inventors to their inventions.

• mechanical reaper

• Eli Whitney

• telegraph/Morse Code

• Cyrus McCormick

• Improved steam boat

• Samuel Morse

• cotton gin

• John Fitch

• steam boat

• Robert Fulton

The time of change in manufacturing and transportation is called the...

• Industrial Revolution

• American Revolution

• Industrial Renewal

• Age of Technology

An ​ ​ (a)   ​ is the first person to think of or make something new. An​ ​ ​ (b)   ​ is a person who organizes resources to bring a new and better good or service to the market.​

• inventor
• entrepreneur
• creator
• builder

What was built so that settlers could travel and for farmers to sell goods to cities in the west by land?

• Interstate 75

• The Old Town Road

• The National Road

• Steamboat Willy

What was built to connect the Hudson River to the Great Lakes?

• Hudson Bridge

• Erie Canal

• Great Lakes Canal

• The Railroad

The Erie Canal made travel on water between the East and Midwest _______ and ________.

• bigger and better

• smaller and harder

• harder and more expensive

• easier and cheaper

Do you think that the technological advances during the 1800's were a good thing or a bad thing? Justify your answers with at least 3 reasons and explain your thinking.