7.1 Second Great Awakening leads to Reform Warmup

Match the term to the definition

• Free enterprise

• Economy with little government regulation; developed in response to strong colonial trade laws

• Mercantilism

• Claimed Florida, Texas, California; built missions 

• Urbanization

• British controlled colonial trade; angered colonists

• Spain

• People moved from rural areas to cities for factory work

• Middle Colonies Economy

• Rich farmland, moderate climate, grew oats, wheat, grain

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

• China

• Italy

• Germany

• Japan

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

The invention discussed in this article led directly to -

• the expansion of educational opportunities for women

• rapid communication of information to distant locations

• the increased ability of people to work at night

• rapid population growth in the western territories

The best selection to complete 5 is -

• interchangeable parts

• labor unions

• canals

The best selection to complete 6 is -

• decreased

• increased

• remained the same

Which title best completed this diagram? 

• Reasons for Urbanization

• Innovations in the Cottage Industry

• Causes of Rural Development

• Expansion of Employees’ Rights

After the War of 1812, thousands of settlers and immigrants moved to the western frontiers of the United States in search of farming and business opportunities. In response, the government began building roads. This transportation network was intended to - 

• promote the free-enterprise system

• establish federal control over industry

• discourage the organization of new territories

• prevent border disputes between states

Match the groups to their contributions

• German immigrants

• Came to West Coast for economic opportunity, worked on Transcontinental Railroad

• Irish Immigrants

• 1st Anti-Slavery Society, lived in Pennsylvania

• Quakers

• Escaped poliitcal turmoil, mostly became farmers, valued education

• Puritans

• Escaped the potato famine; worked in factories and on the Transcontinental Railroad

• Chinese immigrants

• Settled in Massachusetts to build a "city on a hill"

Label the Sections of the U.S. and what their primary economy was

c

d

e

f

b

a

West

Manufacturing

South

Mining

North

Plantation System