Heritage Studies Ch. 7 Test

The amount of goods and services that people want to buy is called _____________.

• demand

• supply

A large amount of land owned by a planter is called __________.

• immigrant

• plantation

A person who comes to live in a country from somewhere else is called _____________________.

• reform

• immigrant

A change to make something better or more just is called _____________.

• reform

• demand

Goods that are produced by companies or businesses are called ____________.

• supply

• telegraph

A new way to send messages by sending pulses of electricity over wires is called __________.

• supply

• telegraph

One of the benefits the railroad brought to the growing nation was that goods manufactured in the East could be sold in the West.

• True

• False

A reaper was used to haul grain in from the fields.

• True

• False

One of the changes farms experienced during the growth of the nation was that extra crops could be sold in the cities.

• True

• False

Wagon trains were the main kind of transportation that connected cities in the early 1800s.

• True

• False