Pre-Civil War

The first machines of the Industrial Revolution were powered by

• Water

• Electricity

• Animals

• Coal

What change in technology allowed business owners to sell their goods in markets across the country?

• The Lowell System

• The growth of railroads

• The invention of the telegraph

•  The Arkwright System

Eli Whitney’s idea of interchangeable parts resulted in:

• the dominance of American manufacturing

• the beginning of the Industrial Revolution

• a rapid expansion of railroads

• manufacturing breakthroughs in the textile industry

 The inventions of John Deere and Cyrus McCormick:

• improved communication

• introduced two new factory labor systems

• helped increase agricultural production in the United States

• led to manufacturing breakthroughs in the textile industry

Which of the following helped enslaved African Americans to endure and survive slavery?

•  Their work

•  Spirituals

• Slave codes

• Rebellions

 Free African Americans in the South in the early to mid-1800s:

• had the same rights and freedoms as white southerners

• usually had escaped from slavery

• had few rights and freedoms

• could travel freely in their home states

 Reformers like Archibald D. Murphey of North Carolina and Horace Mann of Massachusetts worked to 

improve:

• prison systems

•  public education

• living conditions in cities

• the rights of free African Americans

 The temperance movement, efforts at prison reform, and the abolition movement were all elements of:

• social reforms of the mid-1800s

• the second Great Awakening

• transcendentalism

• the women’s rights movement

California’s admission as a free state after the Mexican-American War brought on controversy because:

• many Californians already held slaves

• it would upset the balance between free states and slave states

• Mexico still claimed that California was part of Mexico’s territory

• most Californians wanted independence

What was the system called that was made up of citizens helping escaped slaves on their way north?

• Underground Railroad

• Transcendentalism

• Immigration

• Transcontinental Railroad