Unit 7 Review

Which description best describes the Industrial Revolution?

• Americans began producing more cotton

• American began using the concept of free enterprise

• Americans began using trains to transport goods

• Americans began the mass production of goods through new methods with machines.

How did New England’s physical geography support the growth of industries?

• New England has a lot of gold

• New England has many slaves to work in textile mills

• New England has fertile soil

• New England has many rivers, streams and ports.

How did the telegraph change communication across the nation?

• It allowed information to be communicated in minutes rather than days

• It allowed information to communicated slower.

• It did not impact communication.

• Communication came in a form of pictures.

What was the impact of mechanical reaper?

• Increased the labor required for farming

• Farmers began to sell their land and move towards cities

• Northern states began to use and rely on slave labor

• Reduced the labor required for farming and wheat production increased.

Where would immigrants to the United States in the mid-1800s most likely find work?

• Southern Plantations

• Urban cities in the Northern states

• Native American reservations

• Mining for gold in California

Which best explains the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments?

• End child labor

• Push for the end of slavery

• to support the temperance movement

• to promote women's rights and right to vote/suffrage.

Which best explains the main reason that the southern economy was agricultural

• Southern states did not know how to start industry

• Cotton sales made a lot of money, especially after the cotton gin was invented.

• Southerners refused to work in factories

• There were not railroads in the south to move products

Eli Whitney was an abolitionist. With that in mind, which best explains the irony of his invention of the cotton gin?

• The cotton gin slowed down production of cotton in the South, therefore decreasing the need for slavery.

• John Deere invented the cotton gin.

• Additional railways in the south were needed to move their cotton to the northern factories.

• The cotton gin sped up production of cotton in the south and increased the need for slavery.

What was the main goal of the temperance reformers?

• Increase public education

• Increase church attendance

• Reduce alcohol drinking

• Teach the hearing impaired

What was the significance of interchangeable parts?

• Farming became less profitable

• Factories could produce items in large numbers

• Increased the demand for slavery

• It slowed down the industrial revolution.