Historical Developments and Social Structures

What do Mohandas Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau have in common?

• They both celebrated living a solitary life

• They were both transcendentalists

• They both believed in civil disobedience

• They both opposed British rule

What was significant about Seneca Falls for the women’s rights movement?

• It was the first time women were allowed to vote in a local election.

• It was where women publicly demanded equal rights.

• It was the site of the first college willing to admit women.

• It was where the first women's trade union met.

Why did skilled workers have more success at forming unions than other workers?

• They were more respected

• They did not threaten to strike

• They were harder to replace

• They were supported by the government

In the North, what did immigrants and African Americans have in common?

• They faced widespread discrimination.

• They were mostly skilled workers.

• They had no access to schools.

• They gained voting rights quickly.

What was the main reason many business owners in the North opposed abolition?

• They depended on a steady supply of cotton from the South

• They feared that free African Americans would organize strikes

• They had invested in slave plantations

• They relied on enslaved labor in their factories

Which was the main cause of the increase in the number and the size of cities in the United States?

• the spread of factories

• rising immigration

• rising birth rates

• a desire for cultural opportunities

Which of the following occurred as the United States industrialized?

• State run stores were created to equally provide supplies to citizens

• Immigrants from Canada flooded into America

• People moved from the countryside to towns and cities for jobs.

• Factory towns develop West of the Mississippi

Read the quote from the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments. Which statement identifies rights the women at Seneca Falls demanded?

• the right to bear arms

• Right to own a horse

• the right to get a divorce

• freedom of speech

• the right to vote

In what way did education in America change between 1800 and the 1850's?

• Most northern states set up free elementary schools

• Teachers were required to pass a licensing exam

• Most British schools were free

• Most states in the south created integrated schools that combined both black and white students.

Why did the South not develop a more robust manufacturing base?

• The South had a shortage of factory workers

• Southern investors were more interested in land than industry

• Southern agriculture was more profitable than manufacturing

• Farming required more manufactured tools or machines