This is a quiz and i need help so ill put 10 questions for 10 points there pretty easy but who ever can answer more will be the
brainiest answers so here are some answer as many as you can 1.What first replaced canal transportation for an easier route to the west?
The steamboat
The railroad
The wagon train
The turnpike
2.Who originated the building of canals?
The government
The wealthy businessmen
The industrialists
The people
3.What shifted population from rural agrarian to urban industrial?
The invention of the cotton gin
The first textile mill
The introduction of new power sources
The increased use of slavery
4.Why were keelboats and flatboats important to the early settlers?
The boats were cheap types of new homes.
Most settlers used them when traveling to the West.
The boats were safer than steamboats.
5.What geographic feature did the Portage Railroad conquer?
The narrow waterways
The low lying areas
The rugged terrain
The rapids and waterfalls
6.Which of the following was NOT a use for the railroad horse?
It was used to pull early crude train cars.
It was used for emergency power.
It was used as a substitute for train travel.
It was used for carrying passengers across areas not connected by rail.
7.Which is the most accurate description of the first railroad?
It was completed before the Erie Canal.
It carried only freight and animals.
It connected Maryland to the west.
It was drawn by horses for a portion of the journey.
8.What highway enabled thousands of settlers to make the journey to the Northwest Territory?
National Turnpike
Cumberland Road
Wilderness Road
9.Which of these descriptions does NOT apply to the National Road?
It allowed thousands of settlers to make the journey to the Northwest Territory.
It took over forty years to complete the construction.
It opened trading opportunities for businesses.
It connected the north to the south in a direct trip.
10.Select the five ways in which the cotton gin affected the South.
Slaves became more important and valuable.
Land under production declined.
Prosperity reached most of the Southern population.
Southern attitudes about slavery hardened.
Cotton became the principal southern crop.
The South developed a cultural caste system.
Cotton became a major U.S. export.
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4) Most settlers used them when traveling to the West.
5) The narrow waterways
6) It was used as a substitute for train travel.
7) It was drawn by horses for a portion of the journey.
8) Cumberland Road
9) It connected the north to the south in a direct trip.
10) "Slaves became more important and valuable" "Southern attitudes about slavery hardened" "Cotton became the principal southern crop" "Cotton became a major U.S. export" and "Land under production declined"
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