Benjamin A. Gorman
Beals, Carleton.
Our Yankee Heritage
:
The Making of Greater New Haven
, 2nd. ed. New Haven: Bradley and Scoville, Inc., 1957. Historical fiction format; a reference for Quest Activity 14.
Burlingame, Roger.
Whittling Boy: The Story of Eli Whitney
. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941.
Cooper, Carol. “Eli Whitney Armory,”
Exploring East Rock
. Ellen Brainard
et al
eds. New Haven: Advocate Press, Inc. 7-10.
Faude, Wilson H. and John W. Friedland.
Connecticut Firsts
. Chester, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 1978. A good source for Connecticut inventions and other “firsts” with pictures.
Hays, Wilma Pitchford.
Eli Whitney and the Machine Age
. New York: Watts, 1959.
Latham, Jean Lee.
Eli Whitney—Great Inventor
. Illinois: Garrard Publishing Co., 1963.
Lodewijk, T. ed.
The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. Explains simple machines found in homes as well as how many other common ones work.
Rolt, L.T.C.
A Short History of Machine Tools
. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1965. Over a hundred illustrations.
Snow, Dorothea J.
Eli Whitney—Boy Mechanic
. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1962.
Tunis, Edwin.
Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry
. New York: World Publishing, 1972.
Handout 1 for sub-concept I, activity 1 and Post-assessment.
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1. The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in
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a) Whitneyville
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b) Georgia
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c) New Haven
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d) Westboroug
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2. Eli Whitney was born in 1765 and invented the cotton gin in 1793, at the age of
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a) 28
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b) 58
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c) 38
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d) 32
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3. When Whitney attended Yale, New Haven could be described as
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a) a transportation center
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b) an industrial area
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c) a manufacturing center
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d) a busy port for trading
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4. The word “gin” in cotton gin is short for
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a) ginger
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b) engine
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c) gingham
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d) piggin
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5. For the South, the cotton gin increased all
except
which of the following
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a) trade with New England
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b) the amount of cotton planted
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c) the variety of crops planted
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d) the use of slaves
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6. A gunsmith is a
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a) engineer
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b) inventor
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c) pioneer
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d) craftsman
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7. At Harper’s Ferry and Springfield the U.S. government had __________________ at which guns were made.
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a) arsenals
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b) arsons
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c) armoires
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d) armor
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8. Eli Whitney’s government contract paid him $134,000.00 for the 10,000 guns that he produced. What was the cost of each gun?
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a) $134.00
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b) $13.40
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c) $1.34
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d) $23.40
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Whitney built his factory in which to produce guns near
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a) Wooster St.
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b) Mill River
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c) Orange St.
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d) Mulberry Grove
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10. Many workers at Whitney’s gun factory were
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a) craftsmen
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b) artists
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c) unskilled
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d) skilled
11. Which of the following is
not
an example of a machine tool?
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a) power drill
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b) corkscrew
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c) lathe
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d) electric polisher
12. A man who supported Whitney in his efforts to produce guns was
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a) Robert Woodbury
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b) Phineas Miller
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c) Simeon North
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d) Thomas Jefferson
13. A word that also means
interchange
is
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a) exchange
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b) intercept
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c) replace
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d) unchange
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14. In the following list’ choose the title of a book.
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a) “A New Look at the ‘Whitney’ Milling Machine”
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b) Discover Eli Whitney
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c)
Our Yankee Heritage
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d) “The Legend of Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts”
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15. Which of the following words does
not
describe Eli Whitney?
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a) inventor
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b) aviator
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c) innovator
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d) businessman
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(figure available in print form)
Handout III for sub-concept III, activity 6.
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1. List four different things that you would like to do if you had a lot of money and did not have to attend school.
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2. Pick one from your list above that you would be most interested in write it on the line and add 2 other areas that might interest you as a career.
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3. From your list, choose one and tell what subjects
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you are studying now that would help you in that career.
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4. List 6 characteristics that are special about you and make you different from others.
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5. Of the six above, place a check in front of the ones that you think would be important to an employer.