Industrialization and Reform Corrections

Which factor encouraged more immigrants to settle in northern states than southern states during the mid-nineteenth century

• Northern States had lower population densities.

• Citizenship requirements in southern states were not as strict.

• Southern states had smaller industrial sectors.

• Governments in northern states were less corrupt.

• Some Northerners were willing to defend the South's right to continue slavery.

• Some Southerners were willing to take up arms to protest high tariffs.

• Some abolitionists throught violence was necessary to end slavery.

• Some people in territories needed to defend their right to popular soveregnity.

How did this contribute to the expansion of the plantation system?

• By reducing the number of slaves needed for growing cotton.

• By increasing the profitability of Slavery

• by increasing the time needed to cultivate cotton

• By reducing the demand for raw cotton

Irish and Chinese immigrants are best remembered for performing which type of labor during the late nineteenth century?

• Building dams in the midwestern states

• Digging canals across northern states

• Building railroads in western territories

• Constructing bridges in southern states

• Subsistence farming

• Free Enterprise

• Mercantilism

• Socialism

How did the development of the factory system encourage urbanization?

• Manufactures produced goods to export overseas.

• Labor Unions were formed to protect mill workers

• Workers moved closer to manufacturing centers

• Industrialists invested in cotton plantations

The statistics in this table illustrate population changes associated with --

• The rise of industrialism in the United States

• the establishment of federal income tax

• a prolonged food shortage in the United States

• a lengthy war over disputed territory

The completion of the Erie Canal played a key role in which development?

• New York city becoming a vital commercial center with the country's busiest seaport

• New Orleans becoming a leader in manufacturing and overseas trade.

• Washington, D.C. becoming the cultural and political center of the nation.

• Boston becoming one of the country's largest transportation hubs.

These innovations below in agriculture and industry resulted in?

• higher consumer costs.
• decreased profits for investors.
• less consumer choice.
• more efficient production of goods.

• F

• G

• H

• J