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WorksheetsIndustrial Revolution and Underground Railroad Review
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Because of industrialization in the first half of the 1800s, per capita income doubled and living standards improved for many people in the US. What was another consequence of the Industrial Revolution?
working class women became wealthy as well
wealth became concentrated in the hands of a small group of people
the size of the middle class decreased
The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin criticized which area of US society?
poverty
politics
slavery
Which issue do abolitionists fight for?
women's rights
slavery
temperance
During which era was power-driven machinery introduced in the US?
the Agricultural Revolution
the Industrial Revolution
the Social Revolution
Which statement best describes the regional economic differences during the mid-1800s?
the North specialized in manufactured goods and the South specialized in cotton
the North specialized in tobacco and the South specialized in food crops
the North specialized in fishting and the South specialized in textiles
The practice of assisting escaped slaves to reach safety is associated with what 1800s figure?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Northern states had what distinct advantage over the South at the start of the Civil War?
The value of their farm products
More coastline
A more extensive railroad network than the South
Once the factory system was in place, what was the immediate effect?
The need for less skilled workers
Increase in slavery
A regulation in conditions for workers
The work of Eli Whitney and his interchangeable parts had the most direct influence on which 1900s manufacturer?
Henry Ford
John Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Which individual did the most work with the abolitionist movement?
Horace Mann
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frederick Douglass
Which of the following generalizations about the Underground Railroad is most accurate?
The Underground Railroad offered a safe route for the transport of Union troops and supplies to the South
A small percentage of escaping slaves got assistance from the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad operated mainly along the southern borders of Ohio and Pennsylvania
Which statement most accurately characterizes US foreign trade by 1860?
Most exported goods went to China and Southeast Asia
The slave trade accounted for more than half of the value of imports
Southern agriculture accounted for more than half of the value of exports
When steamboats were first introduced, why were some potential customers hesitant to travel on them?
Weak engines limited trips to smaller rivers
Navigation license fees made passenger tickets expensive
Boilers posed a danger of catastrophic explosion
What technological breakthrough, use by Eli Whitney to produce rifles and the cotton gin, was vital to the First Industrial Revolution in the United States?
Hydroelectric Power
Interchangeable Parts
The Bessemer Process
