Chapter 12 and 13
Celebration of
Knowledge Review
2014
#1 Why were changes to
manufacturing needed in the
mid-1700s?
a. Factory owners were not satisfied with the size of their
profits.
b. Demand was greater than the available supply of goods.
c. Workers were not satisfied with the level of their daily
wages.
d. Traders faced higher shipping prices for smaller amounts of
goods.
b. Demand was greater than the
available supply of goods.
2. How is the Industrial
Revolution BEST defined?
a. a period of rapid growth during which machines
became essential to industry
b. a series of explosive encounters between workers
and wealthy factory owners
c. a time of great excitement about mechanical
approaches to controlling Nature
d. an age of invention and creativity unique in the
history of Western civilization
A. A PERIOD OF RAPID GROWTH
DURING WHICH MACHINES BECAME
ESSENTIAL TO INDUSTRY
3. Which of the following
industries was the FIRST one
impacted by the Industrial
Revolution?
a. the assembly of
guns
c. the sawmill or
lumber industry
b. the making of
clothing items
d. the fast food
industry
B. THE MAKING OF CLOTHING ITEMS
4. Which of the following
describes what Richard Arkwright
did?
a. Inventor of the water frame, he lowered the cost of cotton
thread and increased the speed of production.
b. British mechanic and entrepreneur, he brought his skills to
New England and the Industrial Revolution to the U.S.
c. Inventor of the spinning jenny, he introduced the ability to
produce numerous threads to homes across England.
d. American manufacturer, he would come to own all or part of
13 textile mills between 1790 and his death in 1835.
A. INVENTOR OF THE WATER FRAME,
HE LOWERED THE COST OF COTTON
THREAD AND INCREASED THE SPEED OF
PRODUCTION.
5. Who was the skilled British
mechanic that was responsible for
bringing new textile plans and ideas
to the United States?
a. Samuel Slater
b. Moses Brown
c. Richard Arkwright
d. James Hargreaves
A. SAMUEL SLATER
6. Why were more American textile mills
built in the North than in the South?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The South charged higher taxes on industry.
The North had more rivers to provide power.
The North attracted skilled English immigrants.
The South was devoted to the farming of cotton.
b. The North had more rivers to provide power.
7. What was Eli Whitney’s
greatest contribution to American
manufacturing?
a. He designed a way to produce inexpensive clocks.
b. He developed a new type of water-frame which
improved the textile industry.
c. He came up with the idea of interchangeable parts.
d. He argued that factories deserved better technology.
c. He came up with the idea of interchangeable parts.
8. What does the sale of
thousands of inexpensive clocks to
American families throughout the
1800s suggest
a. Working families came to have the same goods as wealthy
families except that the goods were less expensive.
b. Keeping time became more important as people planned their
routines around factory hours and railroad schedules.
c. Heads of growing households spent carefully and refused to
waste hard-earned money on high-priced goods.
d. Industry became like a new religion so churches stopped ringing
their bells to provide townships with the time.
a. Working families came to have the same goods as wealthy
families except that the goods were less expensive.
9. How did America’s involvement
in the War of 1812 help American
manufacturing grow?
a. The British blockade of the American coast kept foreign
manufactured goods out
b. Tariffs on foreign goods encouraged Americans to buy
domestic goods.
c. Foreign goods became too expensive so politicians placed
tariffs on them.
d. The government boycotted British products that
Americans also produced.
a. The British blockade of the American coast kept foreign
manufactured goods out
10. During the War of 1812, which
American patriot said “to be
independent for the comforts of life
we must fabricate [make] them
ourselves”?
a. Eli Whitney
b. Albert Gallatin
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. Samuel Slater
C. THOMAS JEFFERSON
11. How did textile manufacturers
successfully keep the costs of
running a mill low?
a. They bought cheap cotton and cut back on
maintenance of machinery.
b. They hired entire families to perform simple tasks and
paid them very little.
c. They trained apprentices in exchange for many years
of their labor.
d. They fed workers three meals a day rather than paying
them wages in cash.
b. They hired entire families to perform simple tasks and
paid them very little.
12. The “Rhode Island System”
was Samuel Slater’s strategy of
a. hiring families of workers and dividing factory
work into simple tasks.
b. paying workers in company-store credit and
reinvesting cash in the business.
c.
building houses for workers in exchange for the
promise of company loyalty.
d. hiring unmarried women and designing dualpurpose factory equipment.
a. hiring families of workers and dividing factory work
into simple tasks.
13. Where did the Industrial
Revolution begin during the mid1700s?
a. Asia
b. Europe
c. America
d. Australia
b. Europe
14. For how long would a typical
“Lowell girl” stay at the mills?
a. a decade
b. four years
c. one year
d. nine months
b. four years
15. What is the efficient production
of large numbers of identical goods
in manufacturing known as?
a. Interchangeable
parts
b. Eminent domain
c. Mass production
d. Impressment
inflation
c. Mass production
16. Which of the following BEST
describes a trade union?
a. an organization of workers with a specific skill who worked to
try and improve pay and working conditions for members
b. a combination of skilled and unskilled workers who appealed
to the courts and police for assistance against employers
c. a group of angry workers who staged protests and shouted at
their employers until their demands were met
d. an alliance of workers who wanted to prevent their employers
from competing with other manufacturers
a. an organization of workers with a specific skill who worked to
try and improve pay and working conditions for members
17. Why were MOST early strikes by
union members UNSUCCESSFUL?
a. They did not make clear demands to
managers.
b. Workplace conditions were not that bad yet.
c. The courts and the police did not side with the
union.
d. They had not formed an alliance with
craftspeople.
c. The courts and the police did not side with the
union.
18. Who was Sarah G. Bagley?
a. She set the record for time spent by a Lowell girl in the
original Waltham textile mill.
b. She fought to bring the 10-hour working day of public
employees to private business employees.
c. She banned from the labor movement any worker who
contracted to work longer hours.
d. She presented a case against child labor to textile mill
owners throughout New England.
b. She fought to bring the 10-hour working day of public
employees to private business employees.
19. Around what year did Robert
Fulton test his first steamboat
design?
a. 1750
b. 1775
c. 1800
d.1825
c. 1800
20. Why was the steamboat well
suited to river travel?
a. It traveled well
c. It relied on wind
upstream.
power.
b. It was helped by d. It was meant to
the current.
serve as a ferry.
a. It traveled well
upstream.
21. In the Lowell System, created by
Francis Cabot Lowell, who stayed in
boardinghouses and did all the work
in the factory?
a. Teenage, male
apprentices
b. Young, unmarried
women
c. Whole families
d. A mixture of grown
adults
b. Young, unmarried
women
22. What did the Supreme Court
decide in the case of Gibbons v.
Ogden?
a. Aaron Ogden could monopolize the steamboat business
in New York.
b. Thomas Gibbons’ federal license had priority over Aaron
Ogden’s state license.
c. Travel licenses had to be granted by the federal
government to be legitimate.
d. Thomas Gibbons had to share use of the New York
waterway with Aaron Ogden.
b. Thomas Gibbons’ federal license had priority over Aaron
Ogden’s state license.
23. What was the Tom Thumb
and why was it significant?
a. A sewing machine, it prevented housewives from pricking
their fingers.
b. A steamboat, it brought thousands of settlers upriver to
the Ohio Valley.
c. A ferry, it was the first to transport commuters across the
Hudson River.
d. A locomotive, it was credited with bringing “railroad fever”
to the United States.
d. A locomotive, it was credited with bringing “railroad fever”
to the United States.
24. What first drove the pace of
railroad construction in the United
States?
a. government funding for industry efforts to aid western
expansion
b. growing demand for faster travel and a quicker way to get
goods to market
c. the steel industry’s desire for railroad companies to lay
more track
d. the public’s awe at the sight of the fastest machines in the
world
b. growing demand for faster travel and a quicker way to get
goods to market
25. Which of the following would
be the BEST definition for the term
Technology?
a. the system of mass producing goods by using the system of
interchangeable parts
b. the specific tools used to produce items or to do certain types
of work
c. the development of heavy-duty equipment strong enough to
make large items
d. taking the best from each manufacturing country and
developing a system that combined some of each
b. the specific tools used to produce items or to do certain types
of work
26. Railroad companies changed
the environment in all of the
following ways, EXCEPT which?
a. They blasted through rock to level the land and lay
tracks.
b. They caused towns to spring up around train stops.
c. They began using wood rather than coal for fuel.
d. They helped the logging industry perform
deforestation.
c. They began using wood rather than coal for fuel.
27. All of the following industry’s
expansions were a direct result of
the Transportation Revolution
EXCEPT
a. steel
b. coal
c. logging
d. textiles
d. textiles
28. How did the Transportation
Revolution affect America’s farmers?
a. It caused them to plow up prairie land and cut down trees to
make farmland out in the Midwest.
b. It forced them to sell their New England farms to logging
companies that needed to plant trees.
c. It required them to give up portions of their fields out West to
make way for new railroad lines.
d. It brought them new steel equipment and machinery that put
many family farmers out of work.
a. It caused them to plow up prairie land and cut down trees to
make farmland out in the Midwest.
29. Why was coal a more appealing
fuel source than wood?
a. It burned more c. It was easier to
cleanly.
obtain.
b. It produced more d. It was lighter to
energy.
carry.
b. It produced more
energy.
30. The telegraph was significant
because it
a. enabled people to send news quickly from coast
to coast.
b. helped the railroads to expand more quickly to
the West.
c. benefited from the work of international
scientists.
d. made its inventor a very wealthy and famous
man.
a. enabled people to send news quickly from coast to
coast.
31. How did technological
developments during the Industrial
Revolution enable people to build
factories almost anywhere?
a. Trains could bring raw materials to and ship finished goods
from virtually any area worth living in.
b. The shift to steam power meant factories no longer had to
be built near streams, rivers, or waterfalls.
c. Trains and steamboats spread the population out so that
any factory had a ready supply of workers.
d. The invention of the telegraph put factory managers and
their city-based investors within easy reach.
b. The shift to steam power meant factories no longer had to
be built near streams, rivers, or waterfalls.
32. What was the system of
Morse Code?
a. It was a combination of drums and bongos played in a
certain order to resemble the alphabet
b. It was different combinations of dots and dashes the
each represented a letter of the alphabet
c. It was a series of shrieks in patterns that stood for letters
of the alphabet
d. It was communication method used by the blind and
deaf so that they could read and write
b. It was different combinations of dots and dashes the
each represented a letter of the alphabet
33. To promote their products,
inventors of labor-saving devices did
all of the following EXCEPT
a. hold free
giveaways.
b. let customers buy
on credit.
c. provide free repairs.
d. give public
demonstrations.
a. hold free giveaways.
34. Which of the following
inventors invented the mechanical
reaper which made it easier to
harvest wheat?
a. Eli Whitney
b. John Deere
c. Elias Howe
d. Cyrus McCormick
d. Cyrus McCormick
35. Why did the value of slaves
drop in the South before the
invention of the cotton gin?
a. Prices for crops were low, so some farmers decreased
production and demand for slaves declined.
b. When the North abolished slavery, many Southern slaves
became disruptive and all slaves lost value.
c. As economic conditions in the South worsened, slaves were
more likely to run away to the booming North.
d. The popularity of slavery was low, so farmers grew ashamed of
the practice and auctioneers reduced starting bids.
a. Prices for crops were low, so some farmers decreased
production and demand for slaves declined.
36. How did Eli Whitney’s
original cotton gin work?
a. Horses drew the machine through green-seed cotton
fields to harvest seedless fibers.
b. Cotton was put into the machine, which seeded,
baled, and tied the fibers with hemp.
c. A worker cranked the machine and “teeth” separated
green seeds from cotton fibers.
d. A steam engine powered the machine, which
removed seeds from long-staple cotton.
c. A worker cranked the machine and “teeth” separated
green seeds from cotton fibers.
37. What was the GREATEST benefit
of the invention of the cotton gin?
a. It processed raw cotton more quickly than it could be
processed by hand.
b. It enabled more planters to grow short-staple, greenseed cotton.
c. It saved planters money on manual labor and almost
guaranteed financial success.
d. It revolutionized the cotton industry and gave a
boost to southern farming.
d. It revolutionized the cotton industry and gave a
boost to southern farming.
38. What was the “COTTON
BELT”?
a. An area stretching from South Carolina to Texas that grew most of
the country’s cotton crop.
b. The southern region east of the Mississippi that produced twothirds of the cotton grown in the United States.
c. Fields in Mexico where agricultural scientists worked to
crossbreed short-staple cotton with Mexican cotton.
d. A long stretch of land in the South where short-staple cotton
crops were wiped out by disease in the 1830s.
a. An area stretching from South Carolina to Texas that grew most of
the country’s cotton crop.
39. Planters felt cotton would be a
profitable “CASH CROP” for all of the
following reasons, EXCEPT
a. It was the cheapest and easiest crop for farmers
to grow
b. It was cheap or inexpensive to market to others.
c. It could be stored for a much longer time without
spoiling or going bad
d. Since it was lighter than most cash crops, it cost
less to ship them to market
a. It was the cheapest and easiest crop for farmers to
grow
40. What was MOST responsible for
increasing the domestic slave trade
in the early 1800s?
a. The freeing of slaves in the North led to a decline in
the slave population.
b. An act of Congress banned the importation of slaves
into the country.
c. Cotton planters hungry for profits began using slaves
rather than paid workers.
d. Slaveholders in Virginia and Maryland gained
economically by selling slaves.
b. An act of Congress banned the importation of slaves
into the country.
41. What does “CROP
ROTATION” involve?
a. Moving seedlings from one plot of land to another to
maximize light-exposure and minimize disease.
b. Raking fertilizer into the ground around the roots of young
plants to mix air and nutrients into the soil.
c. Changing the type of plant grown on a given plot each year
in order to protect the land from mineral loss.
d. Turning the soil over after a harvest to prevent insects from
spending the winter underground and infesting next
season’s plants.
c. Changing the type of plant grown on a given plot each year
in order to protect the land from mineral loss.
42. What did cotton planters call the
people who made deals for them with
merchants, arranged passage for their
crops aboard trading ships, and provided
them with financial advice?
a. proctors
b. brokers
c. factors
d. managers
c. factors
43. What was the South’s FIRST
major cash crop?
a. sugar
b. cotton
c. tobacco
d.hemp
c. tobacco
44. The growing of and the reliance
on cash crops hurt the South’s
economy because it
a. took capitalists’ attention away from developing
southern industry.
b. greatly benefited the South’s northern competitors.
c. required costly shipping to avoid passage over land.
d. made crop rotation necessary, thus raising the cost
of farming for plantation owners
a. took capitalists’ attention away from developing
southern industry.
45. Which of the following led to
the demand for American cotton
farmers in South to grow and
process more cotton?
a. The Transportation Revolution meant that trains and steamboats had
to have more cotton to ship or they would go out of business
b. The new textile factories in Great Britain needed more cotton to make
into clothes
c. New industry in the western part of the United States was producing
clothing cheaper than everyone else
d. There had been a cotton famine in China, which meant the only place
New England manufactures could get cotton to produce was from
southern farmers
b. The new textile factories in Great Britain needed more cotton to make
into clothes
46. Why was there a need for a
machine to remove seeds from
short-staple cotton in a faster, more
efficient manner?
a. It was impossible to process short-staple cotton, because the pod
was too hard around it
b. Because the new, advanced textile mills back in Britain had a high
demand for raw cotton, because the speed of production had
quickened.
c. Too many slaves were having their fingers amputated because the
seeds in the cotton were too sharp costing slaves valuable money
d. The Chinese shoe companies had designed a process to use cotton to
line their new NIKE tennis shoes
b. Because the new, advanced textile mills back in Britain had a high
demand for raw cotton, because the speed of production had
quickened.
47. Steam power benefited the
South in all of the following ways,
EXCEPT
a. Louisiana’s lumber industry benefited from the
steam-powered saw mill.
b. Tredegar’s Iron Works produced steam engines
for locomotives.
c. Southern farmers and planters poured their
profits into southern industry.
d. Textile mills no longer had to be built near
Northern rivers and waterfalls.
c. Southern farmers and planters poured their
profits into southern industry.
48. In the first half of the 1800s,
what portion of white southern
families had slaves?
a.
b.
one third
one half
c. two thirds
d. three quarters
a. one third
49. What kind of man was a
“YEOMAN”?
a. a white owner of a
small farm
b. an established
plantation owner
c. a freed southern slave
d. a northern slave sold
to a Southerner
a. a white owner of a
small farm
50. How did the POOREST white
southerners survive?
a. by using their small plots of land to grow cash crops
b. by hunting, fishing, and doing odd jobs for money
c. by committing burglary and other criminal acts
d. by getting permanent positions in plantation
households
b. by hunting, fishing, and doing odd jobs for money
51. Religion affected white
Southern society in all of the
following ways, EXCEPT
a. Wealthy southerners used religion to justify the institution of
slavery.
b. Farm families saw church gatherings as their only opportunity to
socialize.
c. Politicians met with religious groups to campaign for southern
issues.
d. Religion gave rural women an opportunity to volunteer.
c. Politicians met with religious groups to campaign for southern
issues.
52. Wealthy white southerners
used religion to justify the
institution of slavery by arguing that
a. God created some people to rule over others.
b. God selected whites as his “chosen people.”
c. slavery was right because it was practiced in the
Bible.
d. slavery taught savages to bow to a higher authority.
a. God created some people to rule over others.
53. Which of the following were the
MOST powerful members of
southern society?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Textile factory owners
Preachers who were leading revivals
Supreme Court justices
Planters
d. Planters
54. All of the following were
examples of laws passed to limit the
rights of free slaves in the South
EXCEPT
a. Most free slaves could not vote, travel freely, or hold
certain jobs.
b. A free slave could not be married to a white, Mexican or
Indian husband or wife.
c. Free slaves could not live in some states without special
permission.
d. Some free slaves had to be represented by a white person
in business.
b. A free slave could not be married to a white, Mexican or
Indian husband or wife.
55. All of the following were true of
slaves that worked in the planter’s
home EXCEPT
a. They were provided with better clothing, food and shelter
b. They worked as butlers, cooks or nurses
c. They were given a 15 minute break every two hours so they
weren’t overworked
d. Female slaves watched the planter’s children, cooked and
cleaned
c. They were given a 15 minute break every two hours so they
weren’t overworked
56. Above all, slave owners treated
their slaves as they would treat
a. children.
b. laborers.
c. savages.
d. property.
d. property.
57. What were slave owners MOST
likely to do to encourage obedience?
a. appoint a “driver” to monitor the slaves
b. provide slaves with more food and better living conditions
c. whip, shackle, chain, or place a slave in the stocks
d. pay slaves money for work so they could buy their freedom
c. whip, shackle, chain, or place a slave in the stocks
58. Which of these statements
provides the BEST account of why
there was a high rate of illiteracy
among slaves?
a. Some states had literacy laws that prohibited teaching
slaves.
b. Some states paid teachers and slave owners not to teach
slaves.
c. Slave owners thought literate slaves would find manual work
distracting.
d. Slaves did not need to read or write because they
communicated orally.
a. Some states had literacy laws that prohibited teaching
slaves.
59. What would a slave have
worried about MOST when coming
up for auction?
a. the kindness or cruelty of the new master
b. the type of work required by the new master
c. the fate of parents, brothers, sisters, and
children
d. the religious life of the new community
c. the fate of parents, brothers, sisters, and
children
60. Other than death, what was the
GREATEST threat to family bonds
among slaves?
a. auctions
b. kidnapping
c. work
d. runaways
a. auctions
61. What have some historians
called “THE INVISIBLE
INSTITUTION”?
a. slave rebellion
b. the institution of
slavery
c. slave religion
d. the punishment of
slaves
c. slave religion
62. By the early 1800s, many slaves
began to follow which of the
following religious sects?
a. Christianity
b. Islam
c. Buddhism
d. Unitarianism
a. Christianity
63. Religion boosted the spirits of
slaves in all of the following ways,
EXCEPT
a. They sang emotional Christian songs called
“spirituals.”
b They came to see themselves as God’s chosen
. people.
c. They understood that God wanted them to obey
slaveholders.
d They gained faith that they would one day live in
. freedom.
c. They understood that God wanted them to obey
slaveholders.
64. “SPIRITUALS” MOST inspired
which later musical form?
a. ragtime
b. jazz
c. folk
d. gospel
d. gospel
65. What was one way that
enslaved parents passed their
culture down to their children?
a. They read African stories to their children every
night.
b. They told folktales with customary characters
and morals.
c. They taught emotional Christian songs about
freedom.
d. They showed their children how to outsmart
slaveholders.
b. They told folktales with customary characters
and morals.
66. Which of the following NEVER
attempted to or did lead a revolt
against white southerners?
a. Gabriel Prosser
c. Nat Turner
b. Frederick Douglass d. Denmark Vesey
b. Frederick Douglass
67. In what small way would slaves
often rebel against their masters?
a. They slowed down their work in the fields to protest
long hours.
b. They hid the masters’ whips and chains to prevent
harsh punishments.
c. They prayed for God to teach masters the virtue of
equal treatment.
d. They stole books from their masters and taught
themselves to read.
a. They slowed down their work in the fields to protest
long hours.
68. Which event prompted many
states to strengthen their slave
codes?
a. Vesey’s Conspiracy c. Haiti’s Revolution
b. Turner’s Rebellion d. Gabriel’s Uprising
b. Turner’s Rebellion
69. Why did Nat Turner lead a
group of slaves to kill slaveholders?
a. Turner watched his father die as a result of a
savage beating by his master.
b. Turner believed he was on a mission from God to
free the slaves.
c. Turner’s mother was a runaway slave who
abandoned him in childhood.
d. Turner had tried non-violent methods of
resistance but they had failed.
b. Turner believed he was on a mission from God to
free the slaves.
70. One goal of agricultural
scientists were to
a. increase the production of crops by finding ways
to keep nutrients in the soil
b. protect the land used to grow sugar, hemp, and
corn.
c. get southern planters to focus exclusively on
cotton production.
d. perfect a method for quickly curing tobacco
before shipment.
a. increase the production of crops by finding ways to
keep nutrients in the soil
71. What was Tredegar Iron
Works?
a. a northern company that specialized in turning iron into
steel by heating it
b. a northern mine that provided coal to manufacturers of
iron products
c. a southern factory that turned iron into useful products for
industry and the military
d. a southern manufacturer that was one of many to produce
locomotives for the government
c. a southern factory that turned iron into useful products for
industry and the military
72. Why did southern cotton
planters rely on the region’s rivers to
ship goods?
a. The transportation revolution had introduced the
flatboat.
b. The quality of the roads made shipping by land very
difficult.
c. Railroad transport was costly because it was new.
d. Traffic from heavy corn and hemp shipments slowed
road travel.
b. The quality of the roads made shipping by land very
difficult.
73. What was the result of the
invention of the cotton gin?
a. Plantation owners now needed less slaves, because cotton could be
grown faster and they didn’t need as many
b. Plantation owners now needed more slaves, because cotton could be
picked faster meaning they could spend more time planting more
c. Plantation owners now needed less slaves, because the cotton gin
made separating the seeds from the cotton easier
d. Plantation owners now needed more slaves, because the cotton gin
made separating the seeds from the cotton easier meaning they could
use more slaves growing more cotton
d. Plantation owners now needed more slaves, because the cotton gin
made separating the seeds from the cotton easier meaning they could
use more slaves growing more cotton
74. After Nat Turner and his followers killed
more than 60 white members of a white
community where he was a slave, about how
many innocent slaves were killed as an
attempt to stop the uprising?
a. 10
b. 25
c. 60
d. 100
d. 100
75. Eli Whitney’s idea of
interchangeable parts resulted in
which of the following?
a.
b.
c.
d.
the dominance of American manufacturing
the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
a rapid expansion of railroads
the mass production of goods
d. the mass production of goods
76. Which president granted federal
employees a workday of no longer
than 10 hours?
a. Andrew Jackson
b. Martin Van Buren
c. William Henry Harrison
d. Abraham Lincoln
b. Martin Van Buren
77. A period of rapid growth in the
speed and convenience of travel due
to new methods of transportation
are known as
a. The
c. The American
Communication
Revolution
Revolution
b. The Transportation d. The Industrial
Revolution
Revolution
b.
The Transportation
Revolution
78. What industry increased the
demand for coal again in the 1870s,
because it was needed to heat iron
to very high temperatures?
a. The Coal Industry
b. The Automotive
Industry
c. The Steel Industry
d. The Textile Industry
c. The Steel Industry
79. The Transportation Revolution
allowed for which of the following to
travel more quickly and efficiently
across the United States?
a. Goods
b. Ideas
c. People
d. All of these
choices
d. All of these
choices
80. Who perfected the telegraph in
1832, but it was not widely used
until after 1844?
a. Si Robertson
c. Samuel F.B.
Morse
b. Albert Einstein d. Thomas Edison
c. Samuel F.B.
Morse
81. What did John Deere design
that helped the Mid-western
farmers work in heavy soils of Illinois
in 1837?
a. The Tractor
b. The Steel Plow
c. The Mechanical
Reaper
d. The Lawn Mower
b. The Steel Plow
82. Who invented the sewing
machine in Lowell, Massachusetts?
a. Isaac Singer
b. Elias Howe
c. Julius Randle
d. Eli Whitney
b. Elias Howe
83. Who perfected the sewing
machine and by 1860 was the
world’s largest maker?
a. Isaac Singer
b. Elias Howe
c. Julius Randle
d. Eli Whitney
a. Isaac Singer
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