Industrialization & Reform Review

One result of the trend shown in this table was the -

• expansion of available labor

• creation of specialized trade guilds

• decrease in educational opportunities for women

• increase in production costs for manufacturers

Why did slavery become a widespread practice in the United States during the early nineteenth century?

• The system of indentured servitude was banned.

• The need for agriculture labor increased as a result of expanded cotton production.

• Improved transportation systems made it easier for workers to migrate.

• Advancements in technology led to the need for skilled workers.

Which sentence best completes this diagram?

• Cities grew rapidly.

• Demand for artisans increased.

• Farms experienced a shortage of labor.

• Government regulate of factories increased.

This list describes the nineteenth-century experience of immigrants from-

• Italy

• China

• Germany

• Japan

Between 1846 and 1855 the population of Ireland decreased by a third, including the approximately 1.5 million Irish immigrants who left for the United States. What was the primary reason for this migration?

• Massive unemployment resulting from British occupation

• Political unrest during an economic recession

• Famine caused by a major crop failure

• Civil war between Catholics and Protestants

What was one major impact of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe? 

• profit from the book sales funded early labor unions
• Congress was inspired to pass laws outlawing the abuse of slaves
• the Supreme Court overturned fugitive slave laws
• support grew for the abolition movement

The primary goal of the American Temperance Society was to...

• ban the spread of slavery to the new territories
• decrease the consumption of alcohol
• gain the release of mentally ill people from prisons
• create a self-sufficient utopian

A tourist might go to Seneca Falls in New York to visit...

• the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Women's Rights National Historic Park
• historic Jamestown in Colonial National Park
• Independence Hall 
• George Washington's farmhouse

Dorothea Dix's efforts on behalf of the ____________ and ___________ helped create dozens of new institutions across the United States and in Europe and changed people's perceptions of these populations.

• prisoners, rioters
• slaves, mentally ill
• mentally ill, prisoners
• police officers, children

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say--I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
---1904
Who made this statement?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Tubman
• Phillis Wheatley