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WorksheetsSTAAR Industrialization Reform Sectionalism Hastings
Total questions: 73
Worksheet time: 59mins
During the early 1800s many young women in New England were employed outside their homes as -
crew memebers on cargo ships
cloth weavers in textile mills
staff reporters for local newspapers
legal counselors in state courts
How did Samuel Morse's best-known innovaton contribute to U.S. growth and development?
It enabled instantaneous long-distance transmission of information.
It allowed manufactured goods to be produced at lower costs.
It boosted the speed of cross-country delivery
It increased national unity by reducing sectional differences.
What was one major effect of the Erie Canal on the United States in the early nineteenth century?
The rapid growth of cities in the Northeast
A rise in cotton exports to the United Kingdom
An increase in the cost of shipping goods to Europe
A decrease in trade between settlers and American Indians
The growth of railroads during the nineteenth century affected U.S. businesses by -
discouraging congress from instituting tariffs
increasing the cost of raw materials
decreasing the wages of unskilled workers
opening new markets for goods.
Which of these was a result of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?
The demand for slaves increases in the South.
More textile factories are established in the South.
The number of European immigrants arriving at southern port cities increases.
Growing cotton became more profitable
Which of these is a factor that led to industrialization in the United States?
New transportaton systems
Increased government regulation
A decline in agricultural production
The growth of labor unions
How did the development of the factory system encourage urbanization?
Manufacturers produced goods to export overseas.
Labor unions were formed to protect mill workers.
Workers moved closer to manufacturing centers.
Industrialists invested in cotton plantations.
Between 1846 and 1855 the population of Ireland decreased by a third, including the approximately 1.5 million Irish immigrants who left for the United States. What was the primary reason for this migration?
Massive unemployment resulting from British occupation.
Political unrest during an economic recession
Famine caused by a major crop failure
Civil war between Catholics and Protestants
The Bessemer steel process affected westward expansion in the United States by enabling -
Clipper ships to be built in order to transport passengers from the East Coast to the West Coast
interstate canal systems to be built in order to transport agricultural goods from west to east
Conestoga wagons to be built in order to carry people and goods to the West
railroads to be built in order to carry people and goods to the West
The introduction of interchangeable parts led directly to the -
formation of the patent system
creation of labor unions
use of mass production techniques
eight hour work day
The mechanical reaper was invented by ____________________ and was able to cut grain down much more quickly.
Samuel Slater
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
In the free enterprise system individuals enjoy the freedom of?
Limited government interference, receive profits, set prices
Importing goods without any government interference
Exchanging goods without any border restrictions
production, distribution, and exchange of goods should be owned by the community as a whole.
The Second Great Awakening was a movement that promoted -
Spiritual revival and the need for social reform
the use of reason and scientific theory
states' rights and governmental reform
mercantilism and the development of global trade
Which group was among the first to call for an end to slavery?
American Indians, because they viewed the plight of slaves as similar to their own
Quakers, because slavery contradicted their religious beliefs
British loyalists, because Great Britain had ended the slave trade
Puritans, because the New England economy did not rely on slavery
What was one result of the Fugitive Slave Law?
Northerners who believed the law was unfair began to support the abolitionist movement.
Religious groups left the abolitionist movement to avoid political controversy.
Southerners used the law to challenge the constitutionality of abolitionist goals.
Abolitionist societies began to focus their efforts on promoting women's suffrage.
What was one major impact of this novel?
The profits from book sales funded early labor organization.
Congress was inspired to pass laws outlawing the abuse of slaves.
The Supreme Court overturned fugitive slave laws.
Support grew for the abolitionist movement.
The primary goal of the American Temperance Society was to -
ban the spread of slavery to new territories
decrease the consumption of alcohol
gain the release of mentally ill people from prisons
create a self-sufficient utopian society
What was one major effect of the Second Great Awakening?
Churches turned away from public politics and focused on internal religious issues.
People were inspired to join reform movements to address social problems.
Religious leaders petitioned legislatures to extend suffrage to women.
Politicians were encouraged to promote states' rights rather than federal unity.
Which movement did Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson lead?
Temperance
Abolitionism
The Second Great Awakening
Transcendentalism
Sectional differences in the United States during the early 1800s were mostly rooted in differences about —
religion
economics
the roles of women
attitudes about war
How did U.S. tariff policies contribute to sectionalism prior to the Civil War?
Northern states benefited from the tariffs, while Southern states considered them an economic burden.
Western states wanted tariffs to pay for improved infrastructure, while Northern states wanted to reduce the national debt.
Northern states gained European investment in industry, while Southern plantations had to rely on trade with Latin America.
Southern states benefited from tariffs on raw materials, while Northern and Western states disapproved of higher prices for imports.
How did economic opportunities for free African Americans differ from enslaved African Americans during the early 1800s?
Free African Americans could own property and had some rights, while enslaved African Americans had no rights at all.
Free African Americans had no rights to own property, but could operate a business, while enslaved African Americans had no rights at all.
Free African Americans had the right to own businesses and property, while enslaved African Americans only had the right to own personal property.
Free African Americans could own and operate their own business, while enslaved African Americans could not own but could only operate a few small types of businesses.
During the heightened period of sectionalism of the early 1800s, John C. Calhoun became a spokesman for southern states by —
working to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act
compromising to stop the spread of slavery
arguing in favor of a state’s right to nullify federal laws
claiming that the Constitution did not apply to the states
Which geographic factor was common in the North but was lacking in the South prior to the American Civil War?
Seaports
Railroads
Plantations
Coastal cities
Which constitutional principal is the focus of the Nullification Crisis?
Federalism
Republicanism
Individual Rights
Popular Sovereignty
Which of the following was a result of the Missouri Compromise?
The slave trade ended.
Slavery was declared unconstitutional.
Only slavery states were admitted into the Union.
Political power was balanced between slave and free states.
Which of these correctly describes the economical differences among the sectional regions of the U.S.?
North: mining, South: farming, West: manufacturing
North: manufacturing, South: farming, West: ranching
North: manufacturing, South: plantations, West mining
North: fishing, South: manufacturing, West: cash crops
Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.
Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856.
Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas.
The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was extended farther south.
Major result of Missouri Compromise.
More immigrants moved to the North to work in factories
More taxes raised through tariffs paid for a new road to Santa Fe
railroads were built in the South to ship cotton to Northern factories
Conflict between the slave and free states was temporarily resolved
How did the Compromise of 1850 affect both the free and enslaved African Americans?
Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law.
Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California.
Members of both groups could be sold in Washington D.C., slave markets.
Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession.
the controversy in the Dred Scott decision was whether or not slaves should be considered _____________.
citizens
people
property
alive
The Missouri Compromise was supposed to keep a ____________ between slave states and free states
balance
power
separation
difference
What did the Wilmot Proviso want to do?
Northerners ignored the issue of slavery
It would have allowed South Carolina to become part of Mexico
it would allow the spread of slavery into California
it was to ban slavery in any lands that the US gained from Mexico
Sojourner Truth was an important speaker for which two movements?
Labor Movement
Women's Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Abolitionist Movement
established the first permanent school for the deaf in the U.S.
Louis Braille
Thomas Gallaudet
Horace Mann
Dorothea Dix
invented the raised-point alphabet for the blind
Louis Braille
Thomas Gallaudet
Horace Mann
Dorothea Dix
prolific American poet who had an unconventional style
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
John James Audubon
wrote Leaves of Grass
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
John James Audubon
wrote The Scarlet Letter
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
John James Audubon
wrote short stories and poems dealing with mysteries and creepy stuff
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
John James Audubon
known for drawings of wildlife, especially birds
Hudson River School
Walt Whitman
James Fenimore Cooper
Edgar Allan Poe
John James Audubon
