Unit 8 Test - North & South in the Antebellum Period

What are identical components that can be used in place of each other?

• Interchangeable parts
• Factories
• Dynamos
• Assembly Lines

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

• Low wages
• Safe working conditions
• Dangerous working conditions
• Widespread pollution

A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.

• Craft System

• Corporation

• Factory

• Urbanization

Mass production led to:

• Products being more superior in quality
• goods became less expensive
• laborers received higher wages
• industries moved to rural areas

What is the movement from rural to urban areas called?

• Moving
• colonization
• inflation
• urbanization

How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?

• Made the crime rate decrease
• Led to an increase in farm workers
• Make the cities cleaner and safer
• Led to an increase in population in the cities

Why were railroads so important during this time?

• they moved goods more quickly and less expensively over greater distances

• they were fun to ride on to go visit family in other states

• people could ride on railroads to get to their jobs in another city

What were living conditions in the city like during the Industrial Revolution?

• Very extravagant
• Strict housing regulations
• Spacious and luxurious
• Crowded and unsanitary

Slaves in the USA were forced to work on plantations which mostly grew...

• Cotton, sugar and tobacco

• Coffee, bananas and tea

• Tea, sugar and coffee

• Wool, Sugar and coffee

This man-made waterway connected the upper Ohio River Valley and the Great Lakes region, increasing the ability to trade goods.

• Atlantic Ocean

• Mississippi River

• B&O Railroad

• Erie Canal