
Review For STAAR: ONE
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Review For STAAR: ONE
Industrial Revolution and other highly tested subjects
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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
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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
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Multiple Choice
What invention led to an increase in slavery?
Cotton Gin
Bessemer Process
Telegraph
Steam Engine
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Multiple Choice
What invention led to the creation of skyscrapers? Hint: We use steel to build them.
Cotton Gin
Telegraph
Bessemer Process
Mechanical Reaper
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Multiple Choice
Which invention helped people communicate over long distances?
Cotton Gin
Bessemer Process
Mechanical Reaper
Telegraph
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Multiple Choice
Which invention led to faster and cheaper shipping along rivers and canal?
Cotton Gin
Bessemer Process
Steam Engine
Telegraph
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Multiple Select
Multiple Answers:
How did the Steam Engine decrease the cost of shipping
less labor
faster upriver
heavier
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Transportation
Canals
Steamboats
National Road
Railroads
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Multiple Choice
Where were most new road built?
North
South
East
West
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Multiple Choice
What two regions did the Erie Canal connect?
North to South
South to West
East to West
North to West
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Multiple Choice
Why was the National Highway important
It made shipping goods across water cheaper?
It made rover boats faster
It made it easier for people to move west
It made it easier for coal miners to get to work
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Multiple Select
Multiple Answers:
Which of these are related to transportation?
Railroads
Canals
Mechanical Reaper
Steamboat
Bessemer Process
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Utopian Societies
Amana Community
Oneida Community
Brook Farms - Transcendentalists
Shakers
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Multiple Choice
Ann Lee led which group?
Amana Community
Shakers
Oneida Community
Royal Rat Brigade
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Open Ended
In your own words: What is a Utopia?
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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
Shaker Community
Amana Community
Brook Farms
Oneida Community
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Immigration
Germans - Escaping Political turmoil and poverty
Irish - escaping starvation (potato famine)
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Urbanization
Dirty cities
pollution
overpopulation
tenements (tiny apartments)
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Multiple Choice
Why did the Germans come to the USA?
Escape Religious persecution
Escape political turmoil
potato famine
to fight vampires in the German vampire war
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Multiple Choice
Why did the Irish come to the USA?
Irish Waffle House incident
The Irish War
The Irish Potato Famine
The Troubles
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Multiple Choice
Which of these was an negative due to industrialization?
Excess food
faster transportation
holy Monday
pollution
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Multiple Choice
Which of these was an issue due to industrialization?
Faster shipping
faster communication
tenement living
better health
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Multiple Choice
Which of these was an issue due to industrialization?
Illness and disease
skyscrapers
vampire invasion
new forms of transportation
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Multiple Choice
Which of these was an issue due to industrialization?
Crowded cities
loss of blood
less pollution
The Great Compromise
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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
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Multiple Choice
Which region liked high tariffs?
South
North
East
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Multiple Choice
Who was the main workforce for the North?
Immigrants
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
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Multiple Choice
Who was the main workforce for the South?
Immigrants
Irish
Slaves
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Multiple Choice
The South never had industrial revolution. This is because they made too much money from what?
Potatoes
Wheat farming
cash crops
wooden stake sales
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Multiple Choice
Who were the political leaders in the South?
Poor Whites
Slaves
Women
Planter Class
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Open Ended
How were slaves treated in the South?
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Poll
Do you feel better about the STAAR yet?
No
Yes
SO much better
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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
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Multiple Choice
What type of farms did the west have?
gold farms
lumber mills
family farms
plantations
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Multiple Choice
Which region depended on the West to supply food?
South
East
West
North
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Multiple Choice
Did the South depend on the other regions?
Yes
No
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