WorksheetsSoc. St. Ch. 8 Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 30mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Samuel F.B. Morse became famous because he invented the
a)
telephone
b)
telegraph
c)
mechanical reaper
d)
cotton gin
2.
Why was the invention of the mechanical reaper important?
a)
The reaper separated cotton fibers from cotton seed much faster than the manual method used earlier.
b)
The reaper made it possible to communicate very quickly across a wire.
c)
The reaper replaced the old method of sewing clothes by hand.
d)
The reaper could cut grain much faster than the older method of harvesting by hand with a scythe.
3.
Which of the following best describes Samuel Slater's role in the technological advances of this period in our history?
a)
He did not play any role in the technological advances of this period.
b)
He worked with Cyrus McCormick to help McCormick invent the mechanical reaper.
c)
His spinning machines became the basis of factories in Rhode Island. New England soon became a region of textile mills.
d)
He had the idea of using young women called "mill girls" to work in the new textile mills.
4.
A new waterway made it much faster to move farm goods from the Ohio River valley to eastern cities. A new technology allowed boats to travel against the currents of rivers. A new means of transportation made it possible to build new routes nearly anywhere, rather than having to follow rivers or canals.
Which of the following correctly identifies the three transportation improvements described above?
Which of the following correctly identifies the three transportation improvements described above?
a)
the Erie Canal, the steamboat, and railroads
b)
the steamboat, the mechanical reaper, and railroads
c)
the cotton gin, the Erie Canal, and the telegraph
d)
the Erie Canal, the steamboat, and spinning machines.
5.
Which of the following presents a correct sequence of events that led to statehood for Texas?
a)
Following the idea of manifest destiny, the U.S. Army defeated the Mexican Army in Texas in 1836. President Andrew Jackson declared Texas a state.
b)
The Mexican government was angry because American settlers in Texas had brought enslaved Africans with them. The Mexican Army took over all of Texas. Texas would not become a state for nearly 50 years.
c)
Americans began to settle in Texas in the 1820s. The settlers were unhappy with the Mexican government, and wanted to be independent. The Texans fought and defeated the Mexican Army and declared independence. Shortly after that, the United States annexed Texas.
d)
Large numbers of American settlers moved into Mexico's Texas territory. They built ranches and farms and grew wealthy. In a peaceful exchange, the U.S. bought Texas from Mexico for $20 million in 1845.
6.
Which of the following BEST describes how slavery influenced the American settlement of Texas?
a)
Many of the American settlers in Texas came from the South. Many took their slaves with them. Mexico had banned slavery earlier, so slavery caused tension between the American settlers and the Mexican government.
b)
The Mexican government had banned slavery in 1829, so no slaves were taken to Texas.
c)
Escaped slaves from the Southern states fled to Texas, where they established an independent republic.
d)
Mexico had banned slavery before the American settlers arrived. But when the Mexican government saw that the Americas' cotton farms were successful because of the labor of slaves, it passed a law that made slavery legal again.
7.
Which of the following was a factor that attracted settlers from the East to the Oregon Country in the 1840s?
a)
The absence of Native Americans in the Oregon Country attracted many Eastern settlers to the region.
b)
The discovery of gold in 1848 caused a huge migration of people into the Oregon Country.
c)
The Oregon Country's status as an area of religious freedom attracted many Mormons from the East.
d)
Married couples could claim 640 acres of free land in the Oregon Country.
8.
In the early 1800s, traders established a trade route that followed a series of older trails. The route was called the Old Spanish Trail, and it connected Santa Fe and Los Angeles. With what group did the traders frequently trade on their trips along this trail?
a)
French fur trappers
b)
British settlers in Canada
c)
Native Americans
d)
Spanish missionaries
9.
Who was Brigham Young, and why did he begin a movement that led to thousands of people moving from the eastern U.S. to the West?
a)
Young was an escaped slave who led a community of former enslaved Africans in the Mississippi River valley. He and his followers wanted to move west to unite with Native American peoples to form a new nation.
b)
Young was a member of the Mormon church. He and his fellow Mormons faced persecution in the East. They wanted to move west to a place where they could worship freely.
c)
Young was a fur trader who had done business with French and Native American traders for years. He wanted to establish the fur trade in the Oregon Country.
d)
Young was a Catholic missionary leader. He established many Catholic missions in the West.
10.
Which answer identifies two of the main trails to the West the settlers and traders followed in the 1800s?
a)
the Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Trail
b)
the Mormon Trail and the Appalachian Trail
c)
the Oregon Trail and the Trail of Tears
d)
the John Muir Trail and the Old Spanish Trail
11.
Which answer choice BEST describes "panning" for gold?
a)
Miners ran iron pans along the rocks near streams. Because gold is magnetic, any gold that was present in the rock would attract the pans. The miners would then pick away the surface of the rock to expose the gold.
b)
Miners ran water through a long, sloping wooden box called a "pan." Wooden bars across the bottom of the pan trapped any gold that was in the water.
c)
Miners went to places where stream currents slowed. They gathered rock from the stream bed into flat pans. Any heavier gold particles would drop to the bottom of the pan.
d)
After the most obvious gold had been taken, miners used a rock-crushing machine called the "pan" to search for gold on a large scale.
12.
Why were entrepreneurs able to earn such good profits in businesses related to the California Gold Rush?
a)
It was very difficult for entrepreneurs to earn any profit in businesses related to the California Gold Rush. Most went broke and headed back east.
b)
Supplies were scarce and demand was great. Entrepreneurs provided the things the miners needed. That allowed the entrepreneurs to earn good profits.
c)
When the state of California noticed the high profits the entrepreneurs were making, it took over their private businesses. The state earned all of the profit after that.
d)
A small group formed. It would not allow other entrepreneurs to open businesses. By keeping the supply of goods low, the group was able to earn very high profits.
13.
Which two groups worked hard as miners and contributed to California's development, even though they faced discrimination?
a)
the Chinese and the Mexicans
b)
the Irish and the Native Americans
c)
the French and the Chinese
d)
the Mormons and the Mexicans
14.
Why did new towns spring up in places that were not near rivers or canals?
a)
All of the land near rivers and canals was already occupied by cities and towns.
b)
The U.S. government sponsored new towns away from rivers and canals to attract settlers to the West.
c)
The high levels of pollution in the country's rivers led people to settle areas that were from from those rivers.
d)
The towns sprang up along newly laid railroad tracks. Railroads could be built almost anywhere.
15.
What was the main outcome of the Mexican War?
a)
Mexico's army defeated the U.S. forces. California and Texas became part of Mexico again.
b)
Slavery was banned in Texas.
c)
Mexico granted its northern territories to the U.S. The territory of the U.S. now reached all the way to the Pacific Ocean in the west.
d)
The U.S. Army occupied all of Mexico. Mexico would be under occupation for the next fifty years.
16.
Why did Native Americans increase their attacks on traders along the Santa Fe Trail after the Mexican War?
a)
Many traders had started to rob Native American villages to get goods to trade. The Native Americans fought back.
b)
They resented the loss of their land to Texas settlers.
c)
Mexico was angry about its defeat in the Mexican War. It paid Native Americans to attack the traders.
d)
The U.S. government ordered the traders to pay a tax to the Native Americans along the Trail, but traders refused to pay the tax.
17.
Which of the following BEST describes the conditions that most California gold miners faced during the Gold Rush?
a)
The first miners became extremely rich very quickly. Massive amounts of gold were lying on stream beds. Miners merely had to pick up the large pieces of gold and put them in containers.
b)
Miners worked hard, but almost all of them became very rich.
c)
Gold mining was difficult. Miners worked in dangerous conditions in freezing streams. Accidents and disease were commons.
d)
The miners formed a strong union. They earned very high wages. They were among the best paid workers in America.
18.
What did Levi Strauss and Luzena Stanley Wilson have in common?
a)
Both were Methodist missionaries who moved to the Oregon Country to try to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
b)
Both were gold miners who became very rich at the height of the California Gold Rush.
c)
Both were entrepreneurs who started successful businesses that supplied the needs of California's gold miners.
d)
Together, they invented a type of wagon called the prairie schooner. So many western settlers bough prairie schooners that Strauss and Wilson became very rich.
19.
What was the most important effect of the California Gold Rush?
a)
Californians became so wealthy from the Gold Rush that they decided to form an independent republic.
b)
Once the gold was exhausted, almost all of the miners left. Only a few farmers remained in the entire territory.
c)
So many Chinese immigrants came to California to work as miners that California adopted Chinese as its second official language.
d)
So many people moved to California that it had enough people to become a state in 1850.
20.
Which of the following BEST describes California's population when it became a state in 1850?
a)
Because the Gold Rush had attracted settlers from all over the world, California's population was diverse.
b)
California had banned foreign immigrants at the start of the Gold Rush. So, the states population was made up almost entirely of Americans from other parts of the country.
c)
California had a large African population because many Southern planters had moved there with their enslaved Africans to start large farms.
d)
The Indian Removal Act had led to the relocation of Eastern Native Americans to California. As a result, the majority of California's population was Native American.
21.
a line of wagons traveling west as a group
a)
manifest destiny
b)
wagon train
c)
vaquero
d)
Industrial Revolution
22.
a human-made waterway
a)
canal
b)
river
c)
lake
d)
pond
23.
unfair treatment
a)
persecution
b)
vaquero
c)
manifest destiny
d)
discrimination
24.
making many goods at the same time by using interchangeable parts
a)
manifest destiny
b)
Industrial Revolution
c)
mass production
d)
Missouri Compromise
25.
the idea that the U.S. had a right to add territory until it reached the Pacific Ocean
a)
discrimination
b)
Manifest Destiny
c)
Missouri Compromise
d)
Industrial Revolution
26.
the law that brought two new states into the Union and banned slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.
a)
Discrimination
b)
Manifest Destiny
c)
Missouri Compromise
d)
Industrial Revolution
27.
the period when there was a shift from making goods by hand to making them in factories
a)
Manifest Destiny
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Industrial Revolution
d)
Mass production
28.
someone who takes risks to start a business
a)
vaquero
b)
merchant
c)
novice
d)
entrepreneur
29.
a Mexican cowboy
a)
entrepreneur
b)
vaquero
c)
novice
d)
persecution
30.
poor treatment because of one's beliefs
a)
persecution
b)
discrimination
c)
manifest destiny
d)
vaquero
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