5 Written Questions

1. ...factories could be located closer to cities and transportation centers.
2. ...linked cities from east to midwest.
3. ... would later replace the clipper ships.
4. ...make dozens of shirts in the same amount of time he could make one by hand.
5. ...the reaper and the steel plow allowed Midwestern farmers to plant and harvest huge crop fields.

5 Matching Questions

1. The Northeast region had many rivers and streams that would...
2. People from rural areas and foreign countries...
3. With news traveling rapidly...
4. The logging industry expanded and flourished as...
5. Clipper ships would help...

1. a ...supply a reliable supply of water power for mills, and it was here that industries first developed.
2. b ...businesses in different parts of the country would exchange information.
3. c ...American merchants win a large share of teh world's sea trade.
4. d ...trees were cut to supply wood for houses and furniture, for paper, to clear land for farming, and for fuel.
5. e ...flocked to cities to work in the factories.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. ...use steam power in their factories.
   1. Buisnesses began to...
   2. New machines...
   3. Cities became...
   4. Samuel Morse...
2. ...buisnesses began to grow.
   1. Ships that were steam powered...
   2. New ways of transportation such as...
   3. In the 1870s the demand for coal...
   4. When the new transportation methods were discovered...
3. ...the work of five people using hand tools
   1. The clipper ship...
   2. Old factories used...
   3. A lightweight steel plow could be...
   4. A mechanical Reaper could do...
4. ...water power do they had to be built near swift rivers.
   1. The clipper ship...
   2. New machines...
   3. Samuel Morse...
   4. Old factories used...
5. ...soared to meet the growing demand for steel and it began to replace wood as a fuel source.
   1. In the 1870s the demand for coal...
   2. With news traveling rapidly...
   3. In the middle 1800's...
   4. By the 1850's railroads...

5 True/False Questions

1. Coal mining... changed the landscape, it left deep gashes in the earth. → ...changed the landscape, it left deep gashes in the earth.

   True        False

2. Logging... → ...allowed news to travel rapidly

   True        False

3. New ways of transportation such as... → ...the reaper and the steel plow allowed Midwestern farmers to plant and harvest huge crop fields.

   True        False

4. Telegraphs... → ...allowed news to travel rapidly

   True        False

5. Cities became... → ...invented the telegraph in the 1840's

   True        False