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Unit 4 Topic 2 Transportation and Movement

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the Cotton Gin do?

a)

It picked cotton a lot faster than a person could.

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

2.

How did the Cotton Gin affect slavery?

a)

Plantation owners needed less slaves.

b)

It didn't affect it.

c)

Plantation owners needed more slaves.

d)

Plantation owners no longer needed slaves.

3.

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

a)

Because plantation owners needed more slaves to grow more cotton.

b)

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

c)

Because plantation owners needed more slaves to make fabric.

d)

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

4.

A canal is a?

a)

man made channel

b)

ocean

c)

lake

d)

stream

5.

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

a)

Lake Erie

b)

Lake Michigan

c)

Lake Ontario

d)

Lake Huron

e)

Lake Superior

6.

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

a)

linked the industrial centers of the North and the South

b)

allowed the United States Navy to defend the Great Lakes

c)

forced the Spanish to sell Florida to the United States

d)

increased trade between the East Coast and the Midwest

7.

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

a)

To make China more powerful.

b)

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

c)

To make Native Americans move off their land.

d)

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

8.

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

a)

bison

b)

cattle

c)

horses

d)

birds

9.

How did people travel before the Transcontinental Railroad was built?

a)

bikes and scooters

b)

boats and planes

c)

horses and cars

d)

boats and wagons

10.

What does transcontinental mean?

a)

to travel across a continent

b)

to travel from one continent to another continent

c)

to travel north and south

d)

to travel to transport goods

11.

The Transcontinental Railroad connected the __________________________.

a)

north and south

b)

east and west

c)

north and west

d)

east and south

12.
The ____________________ made it easier to travel, communicate, and trade. 
a)
Comstock Lode
b)
Transcontinental Railroad
c)
Vigilantes
d)
Chinese Exclusion Act