History Quiz: Week of April 17-21

A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production was called what?

• Travel Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Great Awakening

• Westward Expansion

An inventor with an idea for mass producing guns with interchangeable parts and also invented the cotton gin.

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Richard Arkwright

• Robert Fulton

This British mechanic memorized the plans of British textiles machines in order to recreate them and build mills America.

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Richard Arkwright

• Robert Fulton

Prior to the Travel Revolution, which of the following was NOT a method people would travel?

• Foot

• Horses

• Canal

• Boat

_______ used the technology of the steam engine to build the first commercial steamboat to be able to travel upstream.

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Richard Arkwright

• Robert Fulton

______ were ofter built to connect bodies of water to one another.

• Canals

• Aqueducts

• Causeways

• Pipeline

This canal was 363 miles long and connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean

• Superior

• Huron

• Erie

• Ontario

Which of the following was NOT needed to trail travel?

• Coal

• Steam Engine

• Tracks

• Horses

The government became involved in the creation and maintenance of _____ as a new process called the "macadam."

• Canals

• Railroads

• Roads

• Steam Boats

What is this machine called?

• Telegraph

• Cotton Gin

• Textile

• Steam Engine