Industrial Revolution

By the 1850’s, which of the following linked many towns with cities and factories and opened new markets for the northern economy?

• wagon routes

• telegraphs

• clipper ships

• new railroad

What is one way that steam-powered machinery changed manufacturing?

• Factories needed more workers

• Machines were more expensive to run

• Factories could be built almost anywhere

• Machines produced more goods at a higher cost

What changes did factory workers hope to achieve by forming trade unions?

• Cooperation with factory owners

• Training for unskilled workers

• Improvements in working conditions

• An end to the factory system

Which of the following was NOT a result of the invention of the cotton gin?

• Cotton profits increased enormously

• Cotton growers used profits to build more factories

• Cotton production increases required more slaves

• Cotton plantations extended as far as Texas

In the decades before the Civil War, which best explains the rise in the number of factories in the United States?

• Factory workers’ salaries increased dramatically

• There was an increased use of the domestic system

• A growing number of American Indians worked in cities

• Factories applied steam power to textile manufacturing

Who were the resolutions of the Seneca Falls Convention supposed to educate?

• delegates to the convention

• women and girls

• the whole society

• men and boys

Which of the following led some people in BOTH the North and the South to oppose the abolition of slavery?

• They feared that the former slaves would demand the same rights that white people had

• They saw abolition as a threat to their economic livelihood

• They feared that former slaves would demand an education

• They thought that freed slaves would burden the economy with unemployed workers

Which of the following resolutions was NOT passed at the Seneca Falls Convention?

• Women’s right to make public speeches

• Women’s right to own property

• Women’s right to hold public office

• Women’s right to vote

How did completion of the Transcontinental Railroad lead to the opening of the west?

• It helped settlers to ship the gold mined in California to banks in the east

• It led the federal government to pass the Homestead Act, giving free land to homesteaders

• It enabled settlers to cross the west, to receive shipments, and to ship their own goods

• It made it easier for settlers to capture the buffalo living on the Great Plains

Which of the following was a result of Dorothea Dix’s efforts at social reform?

• States banned the sale of alcohol

• Children were released from prison

• Mental illness was treated as a minor crime

• Insanity was treated as an illness, not a crime