Industrial Revolution Grade Improvement

Industrial Revolution Grade Improvement

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Industrial Revolution Grade Improvement

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What economic system allows us to buy, sell, and make whatever we want?

Mercantilism

Free Enterprise

American System

Command Economy

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which reason best explains why the North developed an economy based on manufacturing, while the south focused more on agriculture?

Physical geography supported different economies

Northern plantations could not grow cotton

Slavery was a necessity in both regions of the U.S.

Southerners lacked available land to build factories

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the creation of the Erie Canal impact the development of the United States?

It encouraged needed improvements in water transportation

It limited the amount of goods able to be transported between markets

It increased the amount of manufacturing centers in the South

It connected western markets to northeastern manufacturing centers

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What economic factor brought about rapid urbanization?

Free land grants

Opportunity for jobs

Abundance of natural resources

Decreased tariffs

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which major factor caused a surge of Irish immigration to the United States during the 1840s?

Political unrest

Famine

Scarcity of land

Religious persecution

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Pollution, Overcrowding, spread of disease and unsanitary conditions were a direct result of -

new transportation system

nativism

free enterprise

rapid urbanization

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Increased settlement along route, New York population boomed, New York became a major city -- which of the following would be the best title for the description?

Effects of the Erie Canal

Effects of the Telegraph

Effects of the Transcontinental Railroad

Effects of the Factory System

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