Unit 2 Social Studies Review

Front

What were the motives for territorial expansion in the early 1800s?

Back

The east coast was not providing enough for the growing population, the idea of Manifest Destiny, and there was a desire for cheap fertile land.

Front

Which region of the United States in the 1830s is described by the following statements?

• Cash crops were cotton and tobacco.
• Plantation agriculture dominated its economy.
• Most of the population lived on scattered farms.

Back

South

Front

Which territorial gain covered the area between the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains?

Back

Louisiana Purchase

Front

What technology allowed travel to places rivers did not run and made New York City the country's biggest and most prosperous city?

Back

Canals: the Erie Canal

Front

Why did Congress pass the Indian Removal Act in 1830?

Back

Native Americans occupied many desirable lands inside national borders.

Front

Which region of the United States in 1850 is described by the following statements?
• most farmed, but many left farms to work in the growing number of mills and factories
• cold winters and poor soil led to commerce, shipbuilding, and fishing

Back

North

Front

The move from producing goods by hand to producing them by machine is called...

Back

Industrialization

Front

What technology was used during the Industrial Revolution to pave the way for mass production?

Back

interchangeable parts

Front

The adoption of the factory system signaled a national move toward a...

Back

market economy

Front

The market economy had both a positive and negative impact. A positive impact was that living standards improved. What was a negative impact?

Back

workers had to work for low wages and long hours in unsafe conditions