History, Tech and Society Test #1
Inventor of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Inventor of Grain Elevator
Oliver Evans
Canal building created economic growth.
True they were a major contribution to economic gains.
What gender was mostly responsible for preserving?
Women were responsible for preserving.
Which of the following technological systems did Native Americans have before European colonization?
agriculture
Manufacturing using a special purpose machines, division of labor, and an unskilled workforce was called
armory practice
Plain's people main form of clothing..
Buffalo hides
What gender was mostly responsible for butchering?
Men were butchers.
Evan's light weight steam engines were used in steamboats and locomotives.
True, these were two uses.
Most early railroads were owned by joint-stock companies.
True, they had a majority of the ownership.
Iron was processed in a giant _______ furnace.
blast
A technological system links _______ to get work done.
tools
The colonial economy was based off...
trade
The majority of colonial artisans lived in cities because
transportation costs were cheaper.
Lowell mills employed primarily...
unmarried you women.
The wives and children of colonial craftsmen...
worked in the family business.
Artisans made up ___ percent of the colonial population.
10
The culture founded by European colonists on the seaboard is the primary foundational culture of North America.
False, Native Americans were here long before Europeans.
Robert Fulton was the unquestioned inventor of the steamboat.
False, he is not the main inventor
The first state to charter a turnpike company was New York.
False, it was Pennsylvania.
By 1800, most roads in the United States were paved.
False, roads were largely unpaved.
Before the 18th century the vast majority of colonial artisans lived in cities.
False, they did not live in the cities.
The majority of the farms in the North American colonies were large, wealthy plantations.
False, they owned smaller plantations.
The first functional railroad in the United States was the
Granite
Which of the following was NOT a benefit of a united transportation system to the early United States?
Greater state government control.
The steamboat era in the United States was inaugurated on which river?
Hudson
Inventor of the steam engine
James Watt
What gender was mostly responsible for plowing?
Men-Plow
Inventor of Repeating Revolver
Samuel Colt
Artic people's main form of clothing
Seal hides
The pace of technological change in colonial America was slow because...
The government did not encourage it.
Most commerce in the 18th century moved by water. T/F
True this was the main transportation method of goods.
Railroads were eventually supplanted by automobiles.
True this was the next stage in the evolution of the transportation revolution.
Early Europeans were forced to learn the technological skills of Native Americans to survive.
True, Europeans had to depend on Native Americans to survive.
Differences in geography created different technological systems?
True, geography affects technological systems.
The factory system quickly spread to industries.
True, it was a fast growing industry.
Mercantilism's function was to make the king rich
True, mercantilism focused on making the king rich.
Craft enterprises where the workers labored for wages provided the model for the 19th century industrialization.
True, they provided great models.
Early railroad transportation in the United States was extremely unreliable.
True, they were unreliable.
The steam engine was originally invented in Europe.
True, this is the origins of the steam engine.
Only wealthy farms could truly be self-sufficient in the colonial era.
True, this was the best form of self-sufficiency
It was difficult to get artisans to emigrate to North America because they were paid well in Europe.
True, wages made it difficult to negotiate.
What gender was mostly responsible for spinning?
Women were spinners.
What gender was mostly responsible for weaving?
Women-Weave
Cooperation between neighboring farms developed a _____________ economy.
barter
Iron plantations were generally owned by...
groups of entrepreneurs.
Eli Whitney invented the system of ___________________.
interchangeable parts
The court case Gibbons v Odgen set the precedent that only the federal government could regulate
interstate commerce.
In the early United States, roads were commonly the responsibility of...
local governments.
Apprentices worked hard to learn a trade and were paid...
nothing.
For a mercantilist economy, the best kind of trade was with
someone else's colony
Eli Whitney summed up the American system of manufacture by saying that its goals were to produce machines that created parts with expedition, uniformity, and exactness. What does expedition mean?
speed
Monopolies were so powerful over ______________ they were challenged in court
steamboat routes
A permanent industrial workforce was slow to develop in the United States because of
the availability of land.
The expansion of colonial trade created wealth for...
the mother country