Question 1

What period of time is best described as a rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel?

Accepted Answer

transportation revolution

Answer

industrial revolution

Answer

linear time travel

Answer

American Revolution

Question 2

Steamboats immediately doubled the amount of trade that was possible on water. How?

Accepted Answer

goods could be moved up stream and downstream

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England would only trade for items shipped by steam

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people were willing to pay more for products on the water

Answer

they carried twice as much money

Question 3

Who built the steamboat in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Robert Fulton

Answer

Gibbons Ogden

Answer

Eli Whitney

Answer

Peter Cooper

Question 4

Using all of what you have learned, which list of inventions did the most to pull different regions of the nation together?

Accepted Answer

steam-powered locomotive, telegraph, steamboat

Answer

mechanical reaper, steel plow, coal powered locomotive

Answer

threshing machine, steamboat, coal powered textile mill

Answer

water-powered textile mill, telegraph, mechanical reaper

Question 5

How did the railroad system affect farmers?

Accepted Answer

They began plowing up prairies to create more farmland in the Midwest

Answer

Farmers were upset because railroad tracks were damaged crop land

Answer

Railroad locomotives were killing cattle and other livestock.

Answer

People stopped buying crops and instead went on vacations

Question 6

"dot-dot-dot---dash-dash-dash---dot-dot-dot" means S.O.S. in what type of communication?

Accepted Answer

Morse code

Answer

Bar code

Answer

Code of Ethics

Answer

Telephone code

Question 7

What is this a picture of?

Accepted Answer

telegraph

Answer

stapler

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telephone

Answer

catapult

Question 8

John Deere invented the steel version of this implement in 1837.

Accepted Answer

plow

Answer

telegraph

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sewing machine

Answer

reaper

Question 9

How did mass production affect many families in the 1830's?

Accepted Answer

they could now afford to buy household items

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families were dying of starvation because prices went up

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immigrant families began leaving the U.S.

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it had no affect at all on American families

Question 10

What was the main advantage steam-powered factories had over water-powered factories?

Accepted Answer

Steam-powered did not need to built next to moving water

Answer

water-powered factories electrocuted more workers

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water-powered factories used slaves

Answer

Steam-powered factories paid more

Question 11

This picture could represent Peter Cooper's small but powerful locomotive named?

Accepted Answer

Tom Thumb

Answer

Knuckle Ball

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Rollie Finger

Answer

Tim "The Train" Thomas

Question 12

The growth of the railroad system affected which of the following other industries?

Accepted Answer

all answers are correct

Answer

logging

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steel

Answer

newspaper

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