Worksheets8th Grade Ch. 8 The NorthEast
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
What are the major elements of the free enterprise system?
Competition, Government handouts, private property, and economic freedom
Competition, unions, private property, and economic freedom
Competition, communism, private property, and economic freedom
Competition, profit, private property, and economic freedom
What is the factory system?
A system that loans out products so workers work at home and bring in finished goods.
A system that brings manufacturing steps together in one place to increase efficiency
A system that allows for workers flexibility to work from remote locations.
A system that lets workers set the prices for goods and services.
What factors encouraged people to invest in new industries
low taxes, few government regulations, and free labor
high taxes, few government regulations, and competition
low taxes, few government regulations, and competition
high taxes
What is it called when you try to get rid of alcohol?
temperance
Alcohol distribution
Abolitionism
Transcendentalism
A place where they trained high school students as teachers
University School
Boarding School
normal school
Teacher school
Why was the Oberlin college of Ohio important? during the time of the reform movement
They admitted Native American and Irish
They admitted African Americans and Women
They admitted African Americans and Native Americans
They admitted Men and Women
These people were banned from public facilities in the North
Women
Immigrants
Foreigners
African Americans
The average workday for workers in 1840
6.6 hours
8.9 hours
11.4 hours
10.6 hours
Trade unions were created because of...
Poor conditions in the factories
Not enough people to work jobs
A lack of Capital
The states not agreeing on labor relations.
These people were angry that immigrants worked for lower wages.
Factory owners
Nativists
Nationalists
Behaviorists
The official count of a population
Nationalists report
Immigrants report
Census
Addition by subtraction
Connected New York City and Buffalo
Hudson Canal
Erie Canal
Buffalo Canal
Grand Canal
With a cotton gin, workers could now doi the work of how many people?
50
12
100
36.1
Eli Whitney invented the ...
Erie Canal
Steamboat
Gas Engine
Cotton Gin
Two advantages of river travel over road travel were:
Cheaper and slower
Cheaper and faster
Cheaper and more enjoyable
More enjoyable and slower
Why were most mills in the Northeast built near rivers?
(a)
Between 1840 and 1860, the largest group of immigrants came from which country?
Ireland
Germany
Mexico
France
What innovation (invention) opened the way for producing many different kinds of goods on a mass scale?
Steel making
Cotton Gin
Interchangeable parts
Capitalism
