Unit #4 Topic #1: New Industries and Improved Transportation

What is the practice of owning people and forcing them to work?

• Equality

• Freedom

• Justice

• Slavery

Where was America's first cotton thread mill opened?

• Pawtucket, Rhode Island

• Waltham, Massachusetts

• Albany

• New York City

What invention by Eli Whitney in 1793 changed farming in the South?

• Cotton Gin

• Turnpike

• Steamboat

• Railroad

What was the name of the boat built by Robert Fulton with paddle wheels and a steam engine?

• Freedom

• Liberty

• Independence

• Clermont

Which waterway was built to connect Lake Erie with the Hudson River?

• Erie Canal

• Mississippi River

• Ohio River

• Hudson River

Who designed and built a steam engine to pull a train in 1830?

• Robert Fulton

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Peter Cooper

What was the main means of transportation for settlers farming the land along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers?

• Railroads

• Steamboats

• Stagecoaches

• Flatboats

What was the system that allowed Southern plantation owners to own property and make their own business decisions?

• Free enterprise

• Communism

• Socialism

• Capitalism

What was the main source of labor for most Southerners?

• Mining

• Trading

• Farming

• Manufacturing

What was the issue that almost broke up the United States?

• The invention of the cotton gin

• The development of factories in the North

• The construction of the Erie Canal

• The growth of slavery into new western territory