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Industrialization & Immigration Vocab

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

inventor of a steel plow that could turn the hard soil of the Great Plains

a)

Jacob Marley

b)

John Deere

c)

Eli Whitney

d)

Finnius Drake

2.

inventor of a reaper that made it easier to harvest crops

a)

Thomas McGlamry

b)

Hudson McDonald

c)

John Deere

d)

Cyrus McCormick

3.

war that caused America to develop many of its own industrial centers

a)

War of 1812

b)

War of 1710

c)

War of 1911

d)

War of 1942

4.

hand-powered machine that could spin cotton into thread

a)

cotton gin

b)

mower reaper

c)

rotating plow

d)

spinning jenny

5.

name for the system that brought workers and machines into one building to make the production of goods more efficient

a)

industrial revolution

b)

urbanization

c)

factory system

d)

economic convention

6.

word that describes the growth of cities

a)

urban sprawl

b)

economic boost

c)

unification planning

d)

urbanization

7.

person who invented the cotton gin, was one of the first to use interchangeable parts

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Jonathan Groff

d)

Benjamin Moore

8.

railroad that connected the United States and opened the West to settlers

a)

Kansas Pacific Railroad

b)

Transcontinental Railroad

c)

Silverton Railroad

d)

Southern Pacific Railroad

9.

inventor of the telegraph and a communication code

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Samuel Morse

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

10.

canal that connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River

a)

Erie Canal

b)

Sacramento Canal

c)

Chicago Canal

d)

Augusta Canal