Industrialization and Reform Unit Quiz

What was the main "Push" factor for Irish immigrants to come to the US in the 1840s and 1850s?

• The potato famine and poverty in Ireland

• Opportunity to find new farming land in the Midwest

• Needing to escape a failed revolution

• The California Gold Rush

What was the nativist (anti-immigrant) political party that wanted to restrict immigration to the United States?

• The Know-Nothing Party

• The Democratic Party

• The Republican Party

• The Federalist Party

Where did many poorer immigrants go to live and take jobs working in factories?

• Cities in the Northeast

• Plantations in the South

• Farms in the Midwest

• Gold mines in California

What invention by Eli Whitney increased the demand for slaves and encouraged the spread of plantations in the South?

• Cotton Gin

• Telegraph

• Steam Locomotives

• Steamboats

What invention improved travel and trade by making it easier and faster to go up and down rivers?

• Cotton Gin

• Telegraph

• Steam Locomotives

• Steamboats

What invention improved land transportation and opened up new markets for trade?

• Cotton Gin

• Telegraph

• Steam Locomotives and Railroads

• Mechanical Reaper and Steel Plow

What invention improved the production of food and made it possible for more people to live in cities?

• Mechanical Reaper and Steel Plow

• Telegraph

• Steam Locomotives and Railroads

• Steamboats

What innovations made it possible to build factories anywhere and mass produce goods?

• Steam power and mechanization using interchangeable parts

• Hiring young women and girls to work at home for less money than men

• Raising tariffs to make imported goods more expensive

• Decreasing the work-day to 8 hours a day, 5 days a week

Henry Clay's American System used tariffs to build roads and canals. What opened in 1825 and helped make New York City the largest major shipping port in the US?

• The Erie Canal

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Oregon Trail

What kind of factories in the North turned raw cotton into thread and cloth?

• Textile Mills

• Steel Mills

• Assembly Line Mills

• Interchangeable Parts Mills