US History Industrial Revolution Test 8

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Question 1

What was the first telegraph line?

A) 1844 Washington-Baltimore

B) NY-Boston

C) Philly-Pittsburgh

D) Charleston-Savannah

Question 2

What was Slater called?

A) Cotton king

B) Father of factories

C) Rail baron

D) Steel master

Question 3

What did Webster defend?

A) Nullification

B) Secession

C) Union perpetual

D) Free trade

Question 4

What was Specie Circular?

A) Paper money

B) Free coinage

C) Bank holiday

D) 1836 gold land rule

Question 5

Who opposed the tariff?

A) John C. Calhoun

B) Clay

C) Webster

D) Adams

Question 6

Who pushed Erie Canal?

A) Van Buren

B) DeWitt Clinton

C) Seward

D) Marcy

Question 7

Which term means "Steel prairie plow"?

A) Slater called

B) the Lowell system

C) Deere's plow

D) Whitney's other idea

Question 8

What best defines the factory town?

A) Slums

B) Camps

C) Forts

D) Lowell model mills

Question 9

Which of these did Eli Whitney invent?

A) Cotton gin 1793

B) Sewing machine

C) Telegraph

D) Steam engine

Question 10

Which of these did steamboats change?

A) Ocean travel

B) Upstream trade

C) Rail speed

D) Road building

Question 11

Which of the following best defines vulcanized rubber?

A) Natural latex

B) Plastic

C) Goodyear's process

D) Asphalt

Question 12

Which term means "Standardizing tracks"?

A) Slater called

B) the Lowell system

C) Whitney's other idea

D) the railroad gauge fight

Question 13

Provide the definition of nullification:

A) State voiding federal law

B) Court review

C) Veto

D) Amendment

Question 14

Which of these did the reaper do?

A) Planted corn

B) Cut grain fast

C) Ground wheat

D) Baled hay

Question 15

Which of these did Jackson veto?

A) Road bill

B) Tariff

C) 1832 recharter

D) Treaty

Question 16

Provide the definition of the Tariff of Abominations:

A) Low tariffs

B) No tariffs

C) Export bonus

D) 1828 high duties

Question 17

Provide the definition of the market revolution:

A) Bought goods replace homemade

B) No change

C) Farm return

D) Craft revival

Question 18

Which term means "1840 federal vaults"?

A) Slater called

B) the Independent Treasury

C) the Lowell system

D) Whitney's other idea

Question 19

Provide the definition of the sewing machine:

A) Whitney gin

B) Fulton boat

C) Howe and Singer 1840s

D) Morse code

Question 20

In which year did steam spread?

A) 1700s

B) 1900s

C) 1860s only

D) After 1840s

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