Social Studies DCP 3 Review

Who invented the cotton Gin

• Thomas Edison

• Abraham Lincol

• Malcolm X

• Eli Whitney

Which sentence supports the idea that mass production changed the location where people work?

• This was the period when there was a shift from making goods by hand, often in a home workshop, to making them in a factory,

• The mass production of goods was a key part of the Industrial Revolution.

• Each part would be exactly like the next.

• Now a worker, using the right tools, could make the same part over and over again.

• Whitney's invention of interchangeable parts made it to where any parts could be exchanged.

Eli Whitney

• believed the government should stop the production of guns

• moved to a new town from the countryside

• created a system to produce parts to be exactly the same

• set his own hours for working

How did the Industrial Revolution change the American Industry?

• by increasing the amount of goods workers cold produce

• by providing jobs to immigrants

• by granting the right to citizenship

• by decreasing the amount of taxes on goods

The United States purchased the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico from

• Florida

• Canada

• Britain

• Mexico

Which of the following best completes the diagram?

• Cyrus McCormick creates the mechanical reaper

• Robert Fulton designs a steam engine

• Benjamin Franklin experiments with electricity

• Eli Whitney invents a small machine

Abraham Lincoln changed his mind about ending slavery AFTER the Cicil War started

• True

• False

• He did not want to end slavery in Texas

• he issued the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery

How do we know that the news of ending slavery traveled slowly?

• It freed slaves in the confederacy

• The tradition of celebrating on this day spread quickly to other states

• The Civil War did not start as a war to end slavery

• Many of them did not learn of the emancipation until much later

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

The word emancipation can best be defined as...

• a day of freedom

• message signaling the end of an event

• process of being set free

• notice of war between two enemies

The __ amendment allowed African Americans the right to vote

• 15

• 13

• 14

• 12