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Industrialization and Reform

Total questions: 117

Worksheet time: 5hrs 49mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The __________ was a religious movement beginning in the 1790’s in which people felt a renewed sense of spirituality which contributed to the reform spirit in America as people looked to improve society and help others.
a)
Second Great Awakening
b)
Protestant Reformation
2.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848 to draw attention to the problems __________ faced.
a)
women
b)
African Americans
3.
The Hudson River School artists and Transcendentalists impacted developments in American art and literature by establishing an independent American identity.
a)
art and literature
b)
religion
4.
Abolitionists were individuals who wanted to __________ in the United States.
a)
end slavery
b)
ban the use of alcohol
5.
__________ was a social reformer in the 1840’s who focused her efforts on the mentally ill and criminals.
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Sarah Grimke
6.
__________ were noted for supporting social reform movements, seeking to preserve nature, and encouraging people to look for ways to improve society, rather than being driven by material wealth.
a)
Transcendentalists
b)
Abolitionists
7.
In one of his most-famous essays, Civil Disobedience (1849), __________ describes his decision no longer to pay taxes as a form of protest against the Mexican War and the institution of slavery. Thoreau was thrown in jail as a consequence.
a)
Henry David Thoreau
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
8.
__________ published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 in which she described the horrors of slavery.
a)
Harriett Beecher Stowe
b)
Harriet Tubman
9.
Horace Mann pushed for prison reform and encouraged legislators to provide more money for __________.
a)
education in order to make it available to more children.
b)
prisons in order to make conditions better.
10.
What factor lead to Industrialism? 
a)
Revolutions in other countries
b)
No  government regulations on businesses.
c)
trading with England only.
d)
introduction of the Monroe Doctrine.
11.
What was an important power source used during Industrial Revolution?
a)
Electricity
b)
Whale Oil
c)
Steam
d)
Wind
12.
Railroads and Canals were beneficial because
a)
products were moved from the West from the South.
b)
the West & South became more industrialized.
c)
People and products could move faster.
d)
It stopped migrants from moving to New York.
13.
The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney resulted in
a)
quicker factory production.
b)
soil being fertilized.
c)
growth in plantations and slavery.
d)
railroads and canals to transport cotton.
14.
What did northern textile mills produce?
a)
cloth
b)
cows
c)
threshers
d)
chocolate shakes
15.
What is a result of the Northern mills' need for more cotton?
a)
Indian groups were forced to move North.
b)
The railroad was expanded westward.
c)
There was a growth of slavery in the South.
d)
Immigrants from China worked in the mines.
16.
The Know-Nothing party was 
a)
anti-alcohal
b)
anti-immigration
c)
against unsafe work conditions in factories
d)
overcrowding in cities.
17.
Agriculture production was improved during the Industrial Revolution by
a)
steam-powered tractors reducing the need for slaves.
b)
steam-powered threshers cutting wheat faster.
c)
steam-powered boats moving products to cities faster.
d)
steam-powered shovels clearing fields.
18.

What pulled many to settle in the North during the 19th century including immigrants and those from rural areas?

a)

demand for factory jobs

b)

slavery

c)

dropping prices of farm products.

d)

religious persecution

19.
How was the economy in the North and South different during Industrialization?
a)
Manufacturing grew in the North.
b)
The South supported tariffs.
c)
Ship-building grew in the South.
d)
Innovations declined in the North.
20.
Hudson River School artists were known for their
a)
use of abstract shapes in their paintings.
b)
sculptures of historical figures.
c)
short stories about frontier life.
d)
paintings of landscapes of man's connection to nature.
21.
The Second Great Awakening was know for
a)
 heightening social and regional differences.
b)
the expansion of public education.
c)
caused a ban on slavery.
d)
ended the influence of the Catholic church.
22.
John James Audubon artwork influenced
a)
Used car dealers
b)
Naturalist
c)
Photographers
d)
Geologists
23.
How does Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain reflect southern culture?
a)
featured food & culture of the South culture
b)
showed friendship between Huck & Jim
c)
featured land and environment of the South.
d)
discussed southern transportation.
24.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, The North Star, & The Liberator are publication that
a)
opposed slavery.
b)
supported women's rights.
c)
opposed abolition.
d)
supported factory reforms.
25.
Natural Resources, Transportation, Growing population, & investment capital all led to
a)
the abolition movement
b)
expanding slavery
c)
industrialization
d)
decreased immigration
26.
Which happened 1st?
a)
Morse develops telegraph.
b)
Erie Canal is opened.
c)
War of 1812 starts.
d)
Whitney patents the cotton gin.
27.
Abolitionist Frederick Douglas
a)
became president of the Abolition Party.
b)
ran a secret escape route for slaves
c)
spoke about his life as a slave.
d)
wrote laws banning slavery.
28.
Reformers helped disabled people by 
a)
building new hospitals for deaf, blind & mentally ill.
b)
invented medical devices.
c)
created jobs for them.
d)
pass laws to stop discrimination against them.
29.
How did railroad expansion affect the environment?
a)
citizens could move faster from place to place.
b)
tons of rocks had to moved due to construction.
c)
agriculture products prices declined. 
d)
Water reservoirs had to be built to fuel the trains.
30.
What made a national market for goods and services possible during the Industrial Revolution?
a)
tariffs
b)
government regulations
c)
improved transportation
d)
demand for cheap labor
31.
How did women's economic opportunities change in the Industrial Revolution?
a)
Men left for foreign wars.
b)
Women were able to work in factories to earn wages.
c)
Women were granted the right to vote.
d)
Raw materials were in high demand in factories.
32.

What lead to the development of the Know-Nothing Party?

a)

unsafe work places

b)

over-crowding

c)

anti-immigration feelings

d)

fear of communism

33.

Sectional differences were caused by

a)

race & ethnicity difference.

b)

different educational & democratic experiences.

c)

different religious traditions.

d)

different languages.

34.

Which were reform movements?

a)

Women's rights

b)

Eduction

c)

Prison & Hospital

d)

Abolition

35.

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott helped with women's rights by

a)

writing publications on women's rights.

b)

leading strikes.

c)

writing letters to congressmen.

d)

marching on Washington D.C.

36.

What location was important to the women's suffrage movement?

a)

Washington, DC

b)

Seneca Falls, NY

c)

Concord, Massachusetts

d)

Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania

37.

Between 1846 and 1855 the population of Ireland decreased by a third, including the 1.5 million Irish immigrants who left for the United States. What was the primary reason for this migration?

a)

Massive unemployment because of British occupation een Catholics and Protestants

b)

Political unrest during an economic recession

c)

Famine caused by a major crop failure.

d)

Civil war between Catholics and Protestants

38.

What innovation, more than any other, led to the settlement and the economic growth of the West?

a)

Wagon trains

b)

Panama Canal

c)

Transcontinental Railroad

d)

telegraph

39.

Which of the following was most responsible for the revolution described in this excerpt?

a)

Expanded public education

b)

Rapid territorial expansion

c)

Increased government spending

d)

Rapid technological innovation

40.

Innovations such as interchangeable parts, the cotton gin, the spinning jenny and the steam engine brought about rapid industrialization because --

a)

Congress passed lower tariffs to protect American goods.

b)

The manufacturing process became faster, easier and more profitable.

c)

Farmers were able to produce more food for factory workers.

d)

New markets opened along the Pacific coast.

41.

The innovation shown in this photograph most affected the U.S. economy by --

a)

Decreasing the need for canals.

b)

Allowing more efficient movement of goods.

c)

Transporting workers from southern to northern states.

d)

Reducing the costs of settling in western territories.

42.

Which factor most likely caused the trend shown in the chart above?

a)

The Second Great Awakening motivated people to join reform movements.

b)

Jacksonian Democracy allowed more people to vote in elections.

c)

Manifest Destiny inspired many people to become homesteaders.

d)

The Industrial Revolution encouraged people to pursue jobs in urban areas.

43.

How did the development of the factory system encourage urbanization

a)

Workers moved closer to manufacturing centers.

b)

Labor unions were formed to protect mill workers.

c)

Industrialists invested in cotton plantations.

d)

Manufacturers produced goods to export overseas.

44.

One of the consequences of the invention of the cotton gin was that --

a)

Production became more profitable so the need for slaves in the south increased.

b)

Northern farmers began to plant cotton.

c)

Foreign textile mills refused to buy American cotton.

d)

The price of cotton increased dramatically.

45.

The statistics in this table show population changes caused by --

a)

A lengthy war over disputed territory

b)

The rise of industrialization in the United States

c)

The establishment of a federal income tax

d)

A prolonged food shortage in the United States

46.

Which sentence best completes this diagram?

a)

Urban populations expanded rapidly.

b)

Government regulation of factories increased.

c)

Farms experienced a shortage of labor.

d)

Demand for artisans increased.

47.

parts that are manufactured to be identical

a)

suffrage

b)

communication

c)

interchangeable parts

d)

mechanization

48.

a system or means of moving people or goods

a)

transportation

b)

communication

c)

innovation

d)

abolition

49.

process of migrating from rural to urban areas

a)

suffrage

b)

transcontinental

c)

urbanization

d)

factory system

50.

legally ending the practice of slavery

a)

suffrage

b)

industrialization

c)

transportation

d)

abolition

51.

creating new ideas, products, or methods

a)

innovation

b)

transportation

c)

urbanization

d)

mechanization

52.

economic system based on factory production

a)

interchangeable parts

b)

factory system

c)

urbanization

d)

mechanization

53.

exchanging information

a)

innovation

b)

communication

c)

abolition

d)

suffrage

54.

using machines in the production process

a)

transportation

b)

factory system

c)

mechanization

d)

interchangeable parts

55.

the right to vote

a)

abolition

b)

suffrage

c)

communication

d)

urbanization

56.

Goals - total abstinence from alcohol. Believed alcohol ruined people's health & led to "ungodly" behavior.

Leaders- Protestant Preachers & American Temperance Society

a)

Education Reform

b)

Prison Reform

c)

Temperance Movement

d)

Abolition

57.

Goals - campaigned for better prison conditions. Believed that criminals could be rehabilitated.

Leaders - Eliza Farnham

a)

Education Reform

b)

Treating Mental Illness

c)

Women's Rights

d)

Prison Reform

58.

Goals - Provide free public education to all children. Believed school should be free and required for all children.

Leaders - Horace Mann

a)

Education Reform

b)

Temperance Movement

c)

Abolition

d)

Treating Mental Illness

59.

Goals - Fought for women's equality legally, socially & economically.

Leaders - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony

a)

Treating Mental Illness

b)

Abolition

c)

Women's Rights

d)

Education Reform

60.

Goals - To outlaw and end slavery. Believed slavery was morally wrong.

Leaders - Harriet Beecher Stowe, William L. Garrison, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass

a)

Abolition

b)

Education Reform

c)

Prison Reform

d)

Temperance Movement

61.

Goals - Wanted better treatment for the mentally ill.

Leaders - Dorthea Dix

a)

Prison Reform

b)

Temperance Movement

c)

Education Reform

d)

Treating Mental Illness

62.

What was the main "Push" factor for Irish immigrants to come to the US in the 1840s and 1850s?

a)

The potato famine and poverty in Ireland

b)

Opportunity to find new farming land in the Midwest

c)

Needing to escape a failed revolution

d)

The California Gold Rush

63.

What was the nativist (anti-immigrant) political party that wanted to restrict immigration to the United States?

a)

The Know-Nothing Party

b)

The Democratic Party

c)

The Republican Party

d)

The Federalist Party

64.

Where did many poorer immigrants go to live and take jobs working in factories?

a)

Cities in the Northeast

b)

Plantations in the South

c)

Farms in the Midwest

d)

Gold mines in California

65.

What invention by Eli Whitney increased the demand for slaves and encouraged the spread of plantations in the South?

a)

Cotton Gin

b)

Telegraph

c)

Steam Locomotives

d)

Steamboats

66.

What invention improved travel and trade by making it easier and faster to go up and down rivers?

a)

Cotton Gin

b)

Telegraph

c)

Steam Locomotives

d)

Steamboats

67.

What invention improved land transportation and opened up new markets for trade?

a)

Cotton Gin

b)

Telegraph

c)

Steam Locomotives and Railroads

d)

Mechanical Reaper and Steel Plow

68.

What invention improved the production of food and made it possible for more people to live in cities?

a)

Mechanical Reaper and Steel Plow

b)

Telegraph

c)

Steam Locomotives and Railroads

d)

Steamboats

69.

What innovations made it possible to build factories anywhere and mass produce goods?

a)

Steam power and mechanization using interchangeable parts

b)

Hiring young women and girls to work at home for less money than men

c)

Raising tariffs to make imported goods more expensive

d)

Decreasing the work-day to 8 hours a day, 5 days a week

70.

Henry Clay's American System used tariffs to build roads and canals. What opened in 1825 and helped make New York City the largest major shipping port in the US?

a)

The Erie Canal

b)

The Louisiana Purchase

c)

The Transcontinental Railroad

d)

The Oregon Trail

71.

What kind of factories in the North turned raw cotton into thread and cloth?

a)

Textile Mills

b)

Steel Mills

c)

Assembly Line Mills

d)

Interchangeable Parts Mills

72.

Who were the young girls and women that worked in the textile mills?

a)

Lowell Girls

b)

Working Girls

c)

Party Girls

d)

Mean Girls

73.

What raw material did the South produce using slave plantations to sell to textile mills in the North?

a)

Cotton

b)

Tobacco

c)

Rice

d)

Indigo

74.

What is it called when people move from rural farms to urban cities?

a)

Urbanization

b)

Mechanization

c)

Immigration

d)

Nativism

75.

What economic system allows people to make their own choices about buying, selling, or starting a business?

a)

Free Enterprise

b)

Mercantilism

c)

Tariffs

d)

Industrialization

76.

What reform movement wanted to limit or ban the consumption of alcohol in the US?

a)

Temperance Movement

b)

Abolition Movement

c)

Women's Rights Movement

d)

Education Reform Movement

77.

What reform movement wanted to end slavery everywhere in the US?

a)

Temperance Movement

b)

Abolition Movement

c)

Women's Rights Movement

d)

Education Reform Movement

78.

Who led the movement to reform prisons and create asylums for the mentally ill?

a)

Dorothea Dix

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Horace Mann

d)

Emily Dickinson

79.

What group of artists emphasized nature and painting landscapes in their work?

a)

Hudson River School

b)

Fantastic Beasts School

c)

Hippie Painters School

d)

Nature Lovers School

80.

Who led the women's suffrage movement to get women the right to vote?

a)

Dorothea Dix

b)

Susan B Anthony

c)

Harriett Beecher Stowe

d)

Emily Dickinson

81.

Where did most immigrants to the US come from between 1840 and 1860?

a)

Ireland and Germany

b)

Ireland and China

c)

Italy and Germany

d)

England and China

82.

Who were important leaders in the abolition movement to end slavery everywhere in the US?

a)

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

c)

William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Emily Dickinson

83.

Who were the important transcendentalism thinkers that said people should think for themselves and live closer to nature?

a)

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

c)

William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Emily Dickinson

84.

What document was written at the Seneca Falls Convention supporting women's rights in 1848?

a)

Declaration of Sentiments

b)

Declaration of Independence

c)

Declaration of Equality

d)

Declaration of Women

85.

What invention improved communication through the use of electricity and Morse Code?

a)

Mechanical Reaper and Steel Plow

b)

Telegraph

c)

Steam Locomotives and Railroads

d)

Steamboats

86.

Who was the escaped slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad that helped slaves escape to freedom in the North?

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Susan B Anthony

87.
How did participation in the anti-slavery movement affect many women abolitionists?
a)
They accepted their traditional roles as wives
b)
They did not want the right to vote
c)
They decided women should stay at home. 
d)
They became aware of the need to reform women's rights and freedoms
88.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
a)
A meeting about women's rights.
b)
A meeting about ending slavery.
c)
A meeting about men's rights.
d)
A meeting about Native American rights.
89.
I helped get a law passed that allowed married women to gain ownership of the wages and property that they earned.  I also believed in “equal pay for equal work.”
a)
Carrie Nation
b)
Jennifer Shreve
c)
Sarah Grimke
d)
Susan B. Anthony
90.
I was the most famous ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railroad.  I led more than 300 slaves to freedom.
a)
John Brown
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
David Walker
d)
Nat Turner
91.
I escaped slavery and became one of America’s best speakers and writers about the horrors of slavery.  I was a personal friend to Abraham Lincoln.
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Nat Turner
d)
Sojourner Truth
92.
What was the main reason people needed the Underground Railroad?
a)
Meet new people
b)
Freedom from slavery
c)
New job
d)
Travel the states 
93.
What did escaped slaves use to guide them as they traveled at night?
a)
West Star
b)
East Star
c)
South Star
d)
North Star
94.
What time of the day was best to travel along the Underground Railroad?
a)
Lunch time
b)
Night time
c)
Morning 
d)
Evening
95.
In the song "Follow the Drinking Gourd" what led the slaves to freedom?
a)
A map
b)
The river
c)
The stars
d)
A path
96.
What is the main reason settlers went to Oregon? 
a)
Gold
b)
Land
c)
Religious Freedom
97.
What is the main reason settlers went to California?
a)
Gold
b)
Land
c)
Religious Freedom 
98.
What is the main reason settlers went to Salt Lake City on the Mormon trail? 
a)
Gold
b)
Land
c)
Religious Freedom
99.
What is the term that means Americans believed they should settle all of the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean? 
a)
Underground Railroad
b)
Abolition
c)
Manifest Destiny
d)
Cotton Gin
100.
What invention helped the Southern states economy grow? 
a)
Cotton Gin
b)
Automobile
c)
Telegraph
d)
Canal
101.
In the 1800's, factories were mostly found in what region of the United States? 
a)
South
b)
North
c)
West
102.
People that wanted to end slavery were called
a)
Suffragists
b)
Abolitionists
c)
Mormons
103.
The right to vote is called
a)
Painage
b)
Suffrage
c)
Aboltion
104.
Which of the following was a characteristic of the era of good feelings? 8.1A
a)
The United States ceded territory to Great Britain in an attempt to avoid war.
b)
There was a renewed sense of nationalism.
c)
Evangelical revivalists challenged religious traditionalists.
d)
Many states called for a restructuring of the federal government.
105.
One advantage the North had over the South during the industrial revolution was that the North had - 8.10C
a)
numerous urban centers to provide labor sources for factories.
b)
a large slave population to construct factories
c)
abundant fields for planting and harvesting of crops
d)
Mild winters allowing for greater access to navigable rivers.
106.
How did the War of 1812 affect the U.S. economy ? 8.13A
a)
The use of federal paper currency increased.
b)
Agricultural imports increased
c)
Imports of raw materials increased.
d)
Manufacturing increased
107.
Why did the economy of the North develop so differently from the economy of the South or West ?  8.12D
a)
The North had limited land and a large immigrant population.
b)
Northern territories had rocky soil and a large supply of slave labor.
c)
Northern territories had inexpensive land and abundant natural resources.
d)
Northern territories had natural harbors and many navigable rivers.
108.
This picture is an example of...
a)
The Cotton gin
b)
Interchangeable parts
c)
Child labor
d)
Spinning jenny
109.
In which section of early 19th century America did the emergence of the plantation system have a key economic effect ? 8.12B
a)
New England
b)
the South
c)
the Mid-Atlantic states
d)
the West
110.
In the 1840s, thousands of Irish immigrants came to the United States seeking to escape — 8.23A
a)
a civil war between Protestants and Catholics
b)
a famine caused by the failure of a staple food crop
c)
a series of violent conflicts between the British and Irish governments
d)
a series of smallpox epidemics
111.
The device in this picture had what impact on the American economy ?
a)
Reduced the need for slaves in the South
b)
Increased the number of slaves
c)
Reduced the need for cotton cloth
d)
Increased the demand for foreign labor in Southern cotton fields.
112.
• Canal networks • Swiftly flowing rivers • Extensive railroad systems • Banking and investment centers In the nineteenth century, the availability of resources in this list resulted in - 8.27B
a)
the development of industrial labor unions in the South
b)
an increase in the number of factories in the Northeast
c)
an increase in the number of immigrants moving to the South
d)
the expansion of commercial agriculture in the Northeast
113.
The invention of the steam boat greatly impacted the U.S. economy by-
a)
Allowing for the spread of goods to reach European markets.
b)
Eliminating the need for slave labor to remove cotton seeds from cotton plants
c)
Allowing for faster transport of goods across the United States.
d)
Delayed travel times from New York to New Orleans
114.
* Limited government interference in business* Prices determined by supply and demand* Private owners receive the profitsWhich type of economy is best described by these characteristics? 8.23D
a)
subsistence farming
b)
Free enterprise
c)
Mercantilism
d)
Socialism
115.

"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril"-William Lloyd Garrison


The above quote from William Lloyd Garrison most likely reflects his involvement in which major reform movement ?

a)
Abolition
b)
Temperance Movement
c)
 Labor reform
d)
Labor reform
116.
The climate and topography of the Southeastern United States had a major impact on the history of the United States because the region ...... 8.12B
a)
developed as the largest domestic source of steel production
b)
became the center of commerce and manufacturing
c)
was the area in which most immigrants chose to settle
d)
grew agricultural products that encouraged the continuation of slavery.
117.
Which of the following would be considered a negative impact of the Industrial Revolution-
a)
Increased production of goods
b)
Child labor in Northern factories
c)
Increased export of American made goods
d)
Growth of manufacturing in the Northeast United States

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