Expansion and Growth FAC

Which of the following changes resulted from the Industrial Revolution?

• Large numbers of people moved from cities to suburbs.

• Mechanized production in factories replaced skilled craftspeople.

• Small family farms were replaced by large, corporate-owned farms.

• Most women began working outside the home.

In what industry did the Industrial Revolution begin in the United States?

• newspaper

• steel

• textile

• coal

How was Eli Whitney’s use of interchangeable parts to produce rifles revolutionary?

• Each rifle was unique, which increased the cost of rifles.

• The method spread to the production of nearly all goods, which then could be produced quickly and at a lower cost.

• It meant that anyone could learn how to make rifles.

• It resulted in more powerful rifles.

Who led a group of fellow slaves in a violent rebellion against slave--owning whites in 1831?

• Gabriel Prosser

• Nat Turner

• Harriet Tubman

• Denmark Vesey

Which of the following helped unite the United States geographically and culturally in the early 1800s?

• growing opposition to slavery

• the spread of Christianity

• local newspapers

• a network of roads, railroads, and waterways

What contributed to the rise of sectionalism in the United States in the early 1800s?

• the rise of political parties with radical views

• differences in the public school systems in the various states

• the different economies of the North and South and the practice of slavery

• the lack of trade between the North and South

How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery in new states?

• It required Congress to vote on the issue each time a new state was admitted.

• It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

• It allowed new states to make their own decisions about slavery.

• It allowed slavery in Missouri but prohibited it in the Louisiana Territory.

What was the basic foreign policy outlined in the Monroe Doctrine?

• The United States would form an alliance with Canada and Mexico to oppose European involvement in the Western Hemisphere.

• The United States would not interfere in Central and South America, and Europeans should stay out of North America.

• The United States would remain neutral in all conflicts unless the country was directly attacked.

• The United States would not fight in any European wars, and Europeans nations should not interfere in the Western Hemisphere.

What directly caused interstate slave trade to expand?

• southern farmers desire to increase profits

• several armed rebellions led by enslaved people

• the Congressional ban on importing enslaved people

• the invention of the cotton gin

How did the Supreme Court define the concept of “implied powers” in McCullough v. Maryland?

• the Court’s power to declare certain laws unconstitutional

• the powers of Congress that allow it to achieve its responsibilities

• the rights of certain companies to establish a monopoly

• additional provisions of the Bill of Rights