Reform, Industrialization, and Immigration

The innovation shown in this photograph most affected the U.S. economy by -

• decreasing the need for canals

• allowing more efficient movement of goods

• reducing the costs of settling in western territories

• transporting workers from southern states to northern states

Which of these was a primary reason Chinese immigrants came to the US in the early 1850's?

• To seek gold

• To purchase inexpensive farmland

• To avoid a plague

• To escape religious persecution

The primary goal of the American Temperance Society was to -

• ban the spread of slavery to new territories

• decrease the consumption of alcohol

• gain the release of mentally ill people from prisons

• create a self-sufficient Utopian society

The geographic conditions in the U.S. supported -

• agriculture in the North and industry in the South

• agriculture in the South and industry in the West

• industry in the North and agriculture in the South

• industry in the West and agriculture in the North

Which reform movement were William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass both associated with?

• Abolition

• Women's Rights

• Temperance

• Prison Reform

Who believed that education was the "Great equalizer of man..."

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Horace Mann

• Susan B. Anthony

• Frederick Douglass

Who wanted prisons to be cleared of the mentally ill?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony

• Dorothea Dix

• Lucretia Mott

What led to the use of mass production techniques?

• interchangeable parts

• the cotton gin

• the steamboat

• the Erie Canal

What led to the reform movements of the early 19th century?

• Women's Rights

• Temperance

• the Second Great Awakening

• Abolition

Who invented the telegraph?

• Frederick Douglass

• Horace Mann

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• Eli Whitney