Grade 9 Review T3

In the early 1800s, many Americans believed that the ____________________ was a wasteland and that moving Native Americans there would end the conflict with them.

• Great Territory

• Great Reservation

• Great Plains

• Great Rocky

Communications improved when American inventor Samuel F. B. Morse perfected the

• radio.

• telegraph.

• train.

• steamboat.

President Martin Van Buren ordered the army to remove the Cherokee from Georgia in what is known as

• the Trail of Tears.

• the Great Migration.

• the Reservation Removal.

• the Jacksonian Crisis.

What revolutionary transportation project linked the Hudson River with Lake Erie?

• the Hudson River Crossing

• the Mackinac Bridge

• the National Road

• the Erie Canal

What improvement in manufacturing did Eli Whitney popularize?

• the moving assembly line

• interchangeable parts

• the steam engine

• mechanization

The Cherokee sued the state of Georgia taking their case, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, to the Supreme Court to challenge the state's attempt to take their lands.

• True

• False

Even though industry and cities expanded in the Northeast during the early 1800s, what was the country's leading economic activity?

• agriculture

• manufacturing

• mining

• shipbuilding

The change from home-based workshops to factories that often-housed hundreds of machines and workers was one of several basic developments of

• labor unions.

• strikes.

• the Industrial Revolution.

• the revolution in transportation.

What was President Jackson's plan for dealing with Native Americans?

• He negotiated separate treaties between settlers and individual Native American groups.

• He pushed a bill through Congress to move Native Americans to the Great Plains.

• He appealed to the Supreme Court.

• He allowed some Native American groups to keep their lands in exchange for peace treaties.

What made river travel more reliable and upstream travel easier?

• canals

• the iron horse

• sails

• steamboats