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8th Grade Ch. 8 The NorthEast

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the major elements of the free enterprise system?

a)

Competition, Government handouts, private property, and economic freedom

b)

Competition, unions, private property, and economic freedom

c)

Competition, communism, private property, and economic freedom

d)

Competition, profit, private property, and economic freedom

2.

What is the factory system?

a)

A system that loans out products so workers work at home and bring in finished goods.

b)

A system that brings manufacturing steps together in one place to increase efficiency

c)

A system that allows for workers flexibility to work from remote locations.

d)

A system that lets workers set the prices for goods and services.

3.

What factors encouraged people to invest in new industries

a)

low taxes, few government regulations, and free labor

b)

high taxes, few government regulations, and competition

c)

low taxes, few government regulations, and competition

d)

high taxes

4.

What is it called when you try to get rid of alcohol?

a)

temperance

b)

Alcohol distribution

c)

Abolitionism

d)

Transcendentalism

5.

A place where they trained high school students as teachers

a)

University School

b)

Boarding School

c)

normal school

d)

Teacher school

6.

Why was the Oberlin college of Ohio important? during the time of the reform movement

a)

They admitted Native American and Irish

b)

They admitted African Americans and Women

c)

They admitted African Americans and Native Americans

d)

They admitted Men and Women

7.

These people were banned from public facilities in the North

a)

Women

b)

Immigrants

c)

Foreigners

d)

African Americans

8.

The average workday for workers in 1840

a)

6.6 hours

b)

8.9 hours

c)

11.4 hours

d)

10.6 hours

9.

Trade unions were created because of...

a)

Poor conditions in the factories

b)

Not enough people to work jobs

c)

A lack of Capital

d)

The states not agreeing on labor relations.

10.

These people were angry that immigrants worked for lower wages.

a)

Factory owners

b)

Nativists

c)

Nationalists

d)

Behaviorists

11.

The official count of a population

a)

Nationalists report

b)

Immigrants report

c)

Census

d)

Addition by subtraction

12.

Connected New York City and Buffalo

a)

Hudson Canal

b)

Erie Canal

c)

Buffalo Canal

d)

Grand Canal

13.

With a cotton gin, workers could now doi the work of how many people?

a)

50

b)

12

c)

100

d)

36.1

14.

Eli Whitney invented the ...

a)

Erie Canal

b)

Steamboat

c)

Gas Engine

d)

Cotton Gin

15.

Two advantages of river travel over road travel were:

a)

Cheaper and slower

b)

Cheaper and faster

c)

Cheaper and more enjoyable

d)

More enjoyable and slower

16.

Why were most mills in the Northeast built near rivers?

(a)  

17.

Between 1840 and 1860, the largest group of immigrants came from which country?

a)

Ireland

b)

Germany

c)

Mexico

d)

France

18.

What innovation (invention) opened the way for producing many different kinds of goods on a mass scale?

a)

Steel making

b)

Cotton Gin

c)

Interchangeable parts

d)

Capitalism