Semester Final

The trend shown in the table reflects the impact of what major turning point in the United States history?

• The Gold Rush

• The Industrial Revolution

• Urbannism

• The Agricultural Revolution

Why did people move to the cities during the Industrial Revolution?

• People moved to work in the factories because the pay and benefits were better

• People in rural areas did not want to get sick with small pox

• People moved to find work in factories after they could no longer farm

• People moved because there was less pollution in the cities

This had to occur before the Industrial Revolution could take place?

• The French Revolution

• The Agricultural Revolution

• The Money Revolution

• The Gold Rush

The Agricultural Revolution impacted farmers by?

• New farming techniques/tools required more workers on the farm

• New farming techniques/tools produced bigger harvests with less farmers

• Famers no longer had to work

• Farmers struggled to make ends meet because of the changes brought by the revolution

These two natural resources helped the Industrial Revolution take off?

• Coal and Iron

• Wood and peat

• Coal and Natural Gas

• Cotton and Wood

William Cooper was a ten year old boy who would wake up every morning at about 4:00 or 4:30 in order to get to the factory by 5:00 A.M. At noon the children were given a forty minute lunch break, and that was all they got all day. Around 3 P.M. the children became tired, so in order to keep them awake adult overseers would whip them. By 6 P.M. the children would eat on the run because they weren't given a dinner break. At 9 P.M. William's 16 hour shift ended. What term best describes the era in which William lives in?

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Gold Rush

• Reconstruction

• Kids Working Era

This invention is given credit with giving a second life to the institution of slavery in the United States?

• Invention of the cotton gin

• Invention to the reaper

• Introduction of crop rotation and fertilizers

• Poor southern famers

What is NOT a reason why child labor existed during the Industrial Revolution time period?

• It was to provide children a bright future and opportunities

• Factory owners hired children because they didn't have to pay them as mush as adults

• It was an escape from the miserable condition and filth in the cities

• Parents weren't making enough money to support their children

The best caption for this picture is

• A coal miner in the late 1800s in the United States

• Enslaved farmers in the United States between 1800 and 1865

• A child factory worker in the United States in the late 1800s

Based on the events in the image and the time period, what is likely to be true? Mark all that apply

• The child is older than 14

• This child worked a very long day (15 hours)

• The child probably walked at least a mile to get to work

• This child probably worked the weekend as well as the week