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US History 8th Unit 08 Industrialization STAAR

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Negatives of northern urbanization

a)

Pollution & Child Labor

b)

move people & goods, efficient

c)

Textiles, immigration, factories, urbanization, mass production, interchangeable parts

d)

Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

2.

Characteristics of Northern Industrialism

a)

Little government regulation, hands off, private property

b)

Textiles, immigration, factories, urbanization, mass production, interchangeable parts

c)

Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

d)

Expanded slavery and plantations in the South, Textile mills grew in the north

3.

Effects of railroads

a)

Pollution & Child Labor

b)

Long distance communication, Morse Code, Samuel Morse

c)

move people & goods, efficient

d)

Faster way to make steel, Henry Bessemer

4.

Characteristics of Capitalism, Free Enterprise and Laissez-Faire:

a)

move people & goods, efficient

b)

Pollution & Child Labor

c)

Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

d)

Little government regulation, hands off, private property

5.

Effects of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin

a)

Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

b)

Expanded slavery and plantations in the South, Textile mills grew in the north

c)

move people & goods, efficient

d)

Pollution & Child Labor

6.

Effects of Canals and Robert Fulton’s steamboat

a)

Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

b)

Little government regulation, hands off, private property

c)

Textiles, immigration, factories, urbanization, mass production, interchangeable parts

d)

Manufacture of goods

7.

Characteristics of the telegraph

a)

Agriculture, southern farms got bigger, Cyrus McCormick, John Deere

b)

Faster way to make steel, Henry Bessemer

c)

Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

d)

Long distance communication, Morse Code, Samuel Morse

8.

Characteristics of the McCormick Reaper & the Steel Plow:

a)

Agriculture, southern farms got bigger, Cyrus McCormick, John Deere

b)

Faster way to make steel, Henry Bessemer

c)

Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

d)

Long distance communication, Morse Code, Samuel Morse

9.

What was the Bessemer Process?

a)

Agriculture, southern farms got bigger, Cyrus McCormick, John Deere

b)

Faster way to make steel, Henry Bessemer

c)

Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

d)

Long distance communication, Morse Code, Samuel Morse

10.

Innovation

a)

New or improved technology

b)

Manufacture of goods

c)

Massive Growth of cities

d)

helps mass produce goods

11.

Industrialization

a)

New or improved technology

b)

Manufacture of goods

c)

Massive Growth of cities

d)

helps mass produce goods

12.

Urbanization

a)

New or improved technology

b)

Manufacture of goods

c)

Massive Growth of cities

d)

helps mass produce goods

13.

Interchangeable Parts

a)

New or improved technology

b)

Manufacture of goods

c)

Massive Growth of cities

d)

helps mass produce goods

14.

Mass Production

a)

Produce large amount of goods

b)

Cloth/fabric

c)

Children working in NE factories

d)

Many different ethnicities

15.

Textiles

a)

Produce large amount of goods

b)

Cloth/fabric

c)

Children working in NE factories

d)

Many different ethnicities

16.

Child Labor

a)

Produce large amount of goods

b)

Cloth/fabric

c)

Children working in NE factories

d)

Many different ethnicities

17.

Diverse/Diversity

a)

Produce large amount of goods

b)

Cloth/fabric

c)

Children working in NE factories

d)

Many different ethnicities

18.

Reform

a)

Many different ethnicities

b)

to change for the better

c)

Children working in NE factories

d)

To save time, money, labor

19.

Efficient

a)

Many different ethnicities

b)

to change for the better

c)

Children working in NE factories

d)

To save time, money, labor