Industrial Revolution Grade Improvement

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

• Mercantilism

• Free Enterprise

• American System

• Command Economy

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

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

What economic factor brought about rapid urbanization?

• Free land grants

• Opportunity for jobs

• Abundance of natural resources

• Decreased tariffs

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

• Political unrest

• Famine

• Scarcity of land

• Religious persecution

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

• new transportation system

• nativism

• free enterprise

• rapid urbanization

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

How did the invention of the steamboat lead to a revolution in transportation?

• improved trade relations between the U.S. and foreign nations

• Increased the efficiency of the movement of goods and people

• added an additional five states to the Union

• Increased prices of goods in order to build new canals

One effect of the cotton gin was -

• the demand for more slaves increased

• the north wanted slaves

• the demand for more slaves decreased

• The southerners no longer needed slaves to work in the fields

Who invented the steamboat?

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

• Henry Clay

• Francis Cabot Lowelll