Quarter 2 Test Part 1 Test Review

Why did the American Industrial Revolution begin in New England?

• Other regions like the South were already industrailized

• New England had resources like water for power and transporation of goods, coal, and a available labor force.

• It didn't. American didn't have an industrial Revolution

• New England wanted to create a separate economy from the South.

Why was developing and relaible transporation system in the 1800's important to trade?

• It provided jobs

• It allowed for better troop movement and resulted in better defense against Native Americans on the frontier

• It allowed the massive amount of goods produced in the industrial revolution to get to market effienciently and be sold for profit

• Reduce traffic on the highways

What casued the Nullification Crisis of 1832?

• A large war debt America owed to the French

• Mexican forces invading disputed territory in Texas

• The abolition of slavery

• South Carolina's belief that it had the right to ignore the Federal Tariff of Abominations, and their threat to secede from the union if forced to comply.

Which law harshly forced Native Americans off their land in the South East, and moved them to Indian Territory in present day Oklahoma, resulting in the death of many.

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Indian Removal Act of 1830

• The Compromise of 1850

What is Manifest Destiny?

• The belief that America was destined to win its independance from Great Britain

• The belief God intended U.S. terriorty to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific Coast.

• The belief that settlers were safe if they traveled in larger numbers

• The belief that America would become the largest empire in the world.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 resulted in the United States:

• becoming a protectorate of Mexico

• obtaining most of what is now the South Western portion of the U.S. for $15 million.

• losing territory to Mexico with the establisment of the U.S. Southern border at the Nueces River.

• entering into an non-agression agreement with Mexico that lasted 50 years.

All of the following were problems in U.S. cities in the 1800's (19th Century) EXCEPT:

• crime

• fire

• unsanitary conditions

• unemployment

How were the South and North economically reliant upon one another?

• The South grew cotton bought and manufactured in the North, and sold it back to the south as textiles.

• The South produced all the food for the U.S. The North could not eat without them.

• The North taxed the South in return for access to their manufactured goods.

• They were not economically tied together at all.

Which is a statement that describes social reform in the mid-1800's?

• faster communicaiton through the use of the telegraph

• the need for improvements in education, crime, poor work conditions, and ending slavery.

• the need for better trade negotiations with France and England

• the removal of Native Americans off their land

Why didn't industry develop in the South as it did in the North in the early to mid 1800's?

• The population in the South was too, and so they did not have enough manpower to build factories.

• The value of cotton and the cheap slave labor system was so profitable, Southerners would actually lose money if they switched to manufacturing.

• Frequent earthquakes in the South made large buildings and cities dangerous and impractical.

• Southerners preferred their space and disliked city life