Westward Expansion & Industrial Revolution Unit Test

All of the following were considered challenges faced by Irish immigrants to the United States, EXCEPT:

• Worked in U.S. factories for lower wages

• Lived in crowded housing in cities

• Faced discrimination 

• Finding jobs

Most Irish immigrants came to the United States for what reason:

• Escaped the potato famine in home country

• To work in gold mines

• To serve in the U.S. military

• To work the cotton plantations in the South.

  How did the invention of railroads impact the development of the United States?

• It caused little change because no one used them.

• It made prices of goods increase in order to pay for more rail lines.

• It made shipping products to markets easier and prices decreased.

• It forced people to spend a lot of money to travel. 

The belief that the U.S. had the divine right to own all the land between the

Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• Manifest Destiny

• Corp of Discovery

• Northwest Ordinance

• Common Sense

Which of the following are true about Manifest Destiny? (TWO CORRECT)

• The U.S. gained land many different ways and continued to expand out west.

• As Americans continued to move west, more states were created, and the United States grew in size.

• Slavery Expanded into the west

• American stopped migrating west.

During the Industrial Revolution, most immigrants came to the United States to -    

• Face discromination

• improve their lives

• work for lower wages

• to continue north into Canada

What happened to natives as more people moved west to settle on the frontier?

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  They were required to serve in the military 

• They were forced onto reservations

• They moved into cities

• They were made to work in factories.

What effect did mass production have on the United States?

• prices of goods to increase

•   economy to go into a depression

• economy had to rely more on farming

• allowed for a quicker way to produce more items

• prices of goods to decrease

What motivated MOST settlers to move out west? 

• Factory jobs

• Cheap fertile land

• Adventure

• Protection from natives

The painting "American Progress" best represents which era in American history?

• The gold rush

• Westward Expansion

• Immigration to America

• the Louisiana Purchase