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Age of Reform

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were important leaders of which movement?

a)

temperance movement

b)

abolitionist movement

c)

women suffrage

d)

Second Great Awakening

2.

Which group opposed immigration because they wanted to preserve the country for white, American born Protestants.

a)

Nativists

b)

Abolitionists

c)

capitalists

d)

plantation owners

3.

Where did the Industrial Revolution first begin in the United States?

a)

the Southeast

b)

the Midwest

c)

the Northeast

d)

the Southwest

4.

All of the following contributed to rapid urbanization in the 1800s EXCEPT the:

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

Discovery of new power sources

c)

Expansion of railroads

d)

Invention of the automobile

5.

Why did many Irish come to the United States in 1800s?

a)

to escape famine

b)

to flee from political revolutions

c)

because of overpopulation

d)

to escape religious persecution

6.

Which of the following inventions transformed the southern economy?

a)

the cotton gin

b)

the telegraph

c)

the clipper ship

d)

the mechanical reaper

7.

What was the Underground Railroad?

a)

a series of tunnels dug underground to help slaves reach freedom

b)

a network of railroad lines that would sneak slaves to the north

c)

a colonization movement that tried to transport slaves back to Africa

d)

a network of people who secretly helped slaves reach freedom "station" by "station"

8.

What was one reason that industry in the South was not as developed as in the north?

a)

people did not have access to the new inventions developed in the North

b)

the South had more cities than the North

c)

the market for factory made goods in the South was smaller

d)

the South had fewer natural resources

9.

Why did some people want to form labor unions?

a)

to improve working conditions

b)

to open the workplace to more immigrants

c)

to create more jobs

d)

to increase productivity

10.

What was one consequence of the cotton gin?

a)

deep south farmers grew more wheat

b)

domestic slave trade increased

c)

plantations hired more workers

d)

southern factories quickly developed

11.

Who was a leading abolitionist that published the newspaper the Liberator?

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Francis Cabot Lowell

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

12.

Which invention filled the need for a method of communication that kept up with industrial growth?

a)

mechanical reaper

b)

transcontinental railroad

c)

steam engine

d)

telegraph

13.

Who developed the system of interchangeable parts?

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Francis Cabot Lowell

c)

Samuel Slater

d)

John Deere

14.

In what area did many industrial towns develop?

a)

along mountain ranges

b)

near oceans and bays

c)

near other large towns

d)

along rivers and streams

15.

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are best known as

a)

black abolitionists

b)

authors

c)

temperance leaders

d)

utopian thinkers

16.

The movement to ban alcohol in the 1800s became known as

a)

the suffrage movement

b)

the temperance movement

c)

the Second Great Awakening

d)

the Revival Movement