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Review For STAAR: ONE

Review For STAAR: ONE

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10 Slides • 29 Questions

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Review For STAAR: ONE

Industrial Revolution and other highly tested subjects

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2

Poll

Do you feel better about the STAAR Test since we've been reviewing?

Yes

Not at all

A little better

I could pass now

3

Important Inventions

  • Cotton Gin - processes cotton - leads to more slavery

  • Bessemer Process - produces steel faster - more steel production increases size of cities

  • Telegraph - faster communication

  • Steam Engine - ships can move without being rowed

4

Multiple Choice

What invention led to an increase in slavery?

1

Cotton Gin

2

Bessemer Process

3

Telegraph

4

Steam Engine

5

Multiple Choice

What invention led to the creation of skyscrapers? Hint: We use steel to build them.

1

Cotton Gin

2

Telegraph

3

Bessemer Process

4

Mechanical Reaper

6

Multiple Choice

Which invention helped people communicate over long distances?

1

Cotton Gin

2

Bessemer Process

3

Mechanical Reaper

4

Telegraph

7

Multiple Choice

Which invention led to faster and cheaper shipping along rivers and canal?

1

Cotton Gin

2

Bessemer Process

3

Steam Engine

4

Telegraph

8

Multiple Select

Multiple Answers:

How did the Steam Engine decrease the cost of shipping

1

less labor

2

faster upriver

3

heavier

9

Transportation

  • Canals

  • Steamboats

  • National Road

  • Railroads

10

Multiple Choice

Where were most new road built?

1

North

2

South

3

East

4

West

11

Multiple Choice

What two regions did the Erie Canal connect?

1

North to South

2

South to West

3

East to West

4

North to West

12

Multiple Choice

Why was the National Highway important

1

It made shipping goods across water cheaper?

2

It made rover boats faster

3

It made it easier for people to move west

4

It made it easier for coal miners to get to work

13

Multiple Select

Multiple Answers:

Which of these are related to transportation?

1

Railroads

2

Canals

3

Mechanical Reaper

4

Steamboat

5

Bessemer Process

14

Utopian Societies

  • Amana Community

  • Oneida Community

  • Brook Farms - Transcendentalists

  • Shakers

15

Multiple Choice

Ann Lee led which group?

1

Amana Community

2

Shakers

3

Oneida Community

4

Royal Rat Brigade

16

Open Ended

In your own words: What is a Utopia?

17

Multiple Choice

The Transcendentalists believed all people were naturally good and society has forced people to go against their good nature.


Which Utopia did they

1

Shaker Community

2

Amana Community

3

Brook Farms

4

Oneida Community

18

Immigration

  • Germans - Escaping Political turmoil and poverty

  • Irish - escaping starvation (potato famine)

19

Urbanization

  • Dirty cities

  • pollution

  • overpopulation

  • tenements (tiny apartments)

20

Multiple Choice

Why did the Germans come to the USA?

1

Escape Religious persecution

2

Escape political turmoil

3

potato famine

4

to fight vampires in the German vampire war

21

Multiple Choice

Why did the Irish come to the USA?

1

Irish Waffle House incident

2

The Irish War

3

The Irish Potato Famine

4

The Troubles

22

Multiple Choice

Which of these was an negative due to industrialization?

1

Excess food

2

faster transportation

3

holy Monday

4

pollution

23

Multiple Choice

Which of these was an issue due to industrialization?

1

Faster shipping

2

faster communication

3

tenement living

4

better health

24

Multiple Choice

Which of these was an issue due to industrialization?

1

Illness and disease

2

skyscrapers

3

vampire invasion

4

new forms of transportation

25

Multiple Choice

Which of these was an issue due to industrialization?

1

Crowded cities

2

loss of blood

3

less pollution

4

The Great Compromise

26

Sectionalism

  • Three regions

  • Each part of the USA has a completely different culture

  • North - Manufacturing

  • West - Gold Rush, family farms

  • South - Plantations, slavery, cash crops (cotton kingdom)

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North

  • Industrial Revolution

  • Free Labor - Immigrants

  • Like Tariffs

  • Transportation Revolution

  • Depend on West to feed laborers

  • Depend on the South for Cotton to manufacture

28

Multiple Choice

Which region liked high tariffs?

1

South

2

North

3

East

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Multiple Choice

Who was the main workforce for the North?

1

Immigrants

2

Slaves

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South

  • Plantation System

  • Very rich whites (planter class)

  • Poor whites (sharecroppers/others)

  • Slaves - no rights or freedom

  • Does not depend on West or South

  • Tends to trade with Europe

  • Produce 70% of the WORLDS cotton

31

Multiple Choice

Who was the main workforce for the South?

1

Immigrants

2

Irish

3

Slaves

32

Multiple Choice

The South never had industrial revolution. This is because they made too much money from what?

1

Potatoes

2

Wheat farming

3

cash crops

4

wooden stake sales

33

Multiple Choice

Who were the political leaders in the South?

1

Poor Whites

2

Slaves

3

Women

4

Planter Class

34

Open Ended

How were slaves treated in the South?

35

Poll

Do you feel better about the STAAR yet?

No

Yes

SO much better

36

West

  • Families moved west to start farms - cheap land

  • Rich men moved to buy up land

  • All people came to look for gold

  • Railroads - built mainly by Chinese immigrants

  • Transcontinental railroad connects west to the other regions

37

Multiple Choice

What type of farms did the west have?

1

gold farms

2

lumber mills

3

family farms

4

plantations

38

Multiple Choice

Which region depended on the West to supply food?

1

South

2

East

3

West

4

North

39

Multiple Choice

Did the South depend on the other regions?

1

Yes

2

No

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