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Unit 4: Expansion - American History Grade 8

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 1hrs 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How did railroads impact the prices of goods & services?
a)
Made goods and services more expensive & harder to ship
b)
Made goods and services cheaper & easier to ship
c)
Gave people safer transportation
d)
Opened new land for exploring and settlements
2.
Women were paid ____ than men for doing the same work.
a)
more
b)
less
3.
How did the Industrial Revolution change the way we create goods?
a)
we made fewer products
b)
we made better quality products
c)
we made products from home
d)
mass production & cheaper goods
4.
Because children worked in factories 
a)
they had less education
b)
they became sick an injured
c)
they worked for less pay
d)
all of the above
5.
The cotton gin was invented by _____, which helped separate seeds from cotton fiber.
a)
Eli Whitney
b)
Henry Ford
c)
Robert Fulton
d)
Edmund Cartwright
6.
Why did people move to cities during the Industrial Revolution?
a)
People were looking for work.
b)
People were looking for farms.
c)
People wanted to buy a house.
d)
People wanted to sell their crops.
7.
Using interchangeable parts for creating goods advanced the growth of industry because it-
a)
allowed the continuation of the domestic system
b)
permitted large quantities of goods to be mass produced at lower cost
c)
made it possible for unskilled workers to operate machines
d)
brought an end to the common abuse of factory workers
8.

What was he production method of using work that was created by people in their homes called?

a)

Abode Industry

b)

Home and Hearth Industry

c)

Castle Industry

d)

Cottage Industry

9.

Which time period was marked by advances in technology which made farming easier and more productive?

a)

Agricultural Revolution

b)

Digital Revolution

c)

New England Revolution

d)

Scientific Revolution

10.

Which effect did coal have on the Industrial Revolution?

a)

It was converted into steel in huge furnaces

b)

It was a profitable job to make coal in the factories

c)

It replaced petroleum as the most popular fuel in the world

d)

It was used to power new machines

11.

Which social class grew the most because of the Industrial Revolution?

a)

Wealthy

b)

Upper class

c)

Middle class

d)

Working class

12.

The United States experienced a period of greatly increased immigration in the mid-nineteenth century. In particular, there was a surge in the number of Irish immigrants. Why did Irish immigration increase during the mid-nineteenth century?

a)

the end of the Napoleonic Wars

b)

the Irish won their independence from the United Kingdom

c)

the Great Potato Famine in Ireland

d)

the spread of the Plague in Ireland

13.

This immigration inspection site was located on the East Coast and opened in 1892.

a)

Angel Island

b)

The Statue of Liberty

c)

Ellis Island

d)

New York City

14.

Where did immigrants in the West work?

a)

Factories, Industries

b)

Ranches

c)

Farms, Railroad, Mines

d)

Schools, Offices, Businesses

15.

How did immigrants decide to settle where they did?

a)

They settled in warmer climates

b)

They settled near water

c)

They settled by people of similar ethnic backgrounds

d)

They settled where immigrant officials sent them

16.

Generally speaking Americans were happy to see large numbers of new Irish immigrants because they were seen as hardworking, law abiding citizens.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Many Americans were afraid of which religion that large number of immigrants in the 1800's believed in?

a)

Catholicism

b)

Protestantism

c)

Islam

d)

Judaism

18.

Which Americans would have been most in favor of immigration?

a)

Factory workers

b)

Factory owners

c)

Railroad workers

d)

Southerners

19.

In which state would you have found large numbers of recent German immigrants in the mid to late 1800's?

a)

Wisconsin

b)

South Carolina

c)

Alabama

d)

Maine

20.
a)

Immigration to rural areas continued to rise while many farmers moved to cities.

b)

By 1900, more Americans were working in factories than on farms for the first time in history.

c)

Despite the availability of factory jobs, the vast majority of Americans chose to remain on farms at the turn of the century.

d)

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, America's economy was becoming increasingly industrial.

21.

Which of the following groups of immigrants did NOT come voluntarily.

a)

Jews from Russia escaping persecution

b)

Irish people looking for more food.

c)

Africans on slave ships

d)

Wealthy people looking for an adventure

22.
How did cotton relate to slavery?
a)
The desire to grow cotton led to increased slavery
b)
It did not relate to slavery
c)
All slaves were required to grow cotton
d)
Cotton was traded for slaves in Africa
23.
Many slaves worked on large farms called ______.
a)
plantations
b)
villages
24.
The _____ is the voyage of slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean
a)
Triangular trade
b)
Middle Passage
c)
overseer
d)
master
25.
Where were most slaves in the West Indies and British North Americans put to work?  
a)
Gold and silver mines
b)
household kitchens
c)
grain mills
d)
sugar and tobacco plantations
26.
Which is true of free African Americans living in both the North and the South?
a)
They faced discrimination and racism.
b)
They lived side by side with white Americans.
c)
They had the same rights as everyone else.
d)
They preferred living only with African Americans.
27.
Why did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?
a)
They feared the power of the slaveholders.
b)
They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
c)
They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
d)
They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.
28.
What did Harriet Tubman’s work with the Underground Railroad involve?
a)
As a freed slave, she led others to take a stand against slave owners.
b)
As a freed slave, she bought slaves and then gave them their freedom.
c)
As an escaped slave, she guided slaves from the South to freedom.
d)
As an escaped slave, she opened a school for those who traveled to Canada.
29.
Who resisted slavery by organizing a violent rebellion?
a)
Nat Turner
b)
Edward Covey
c)
Sojourner Truth
d)
Frederick Douglass
30.
Which of these was the most common way slaves resisted slavery?
a)
by killing their owners
b)
by escaping to the North
c)
by organizing slave uprisings
d)
by finding ways to quietly rebel
31.
Which of these best describes the Underground Railroad?
a)
a series of tunnels used to move slaves to free states
b)
people who secretly helped slaves escape to the North
c)
transportation system that moved slaves to freedom at night
d)
people who caught fugitive slaves and returned them to owners
32.
Slaves expressed African cultural traditions in all of the following ways except
a)
through art.
b)
through music.
c)
through fieldwork.
d)
through folk tales.
33.
What is a reformer?
a)
Not active
b)
Understanding or agreeing with the feelings or situation of another person.
c)
Someone who works to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustice.
34.

If a mother was a slave, her child was:

a)

Free for life

b)

A slave for life

c)

A slave for a short time

d)

Free for a short time

35.
A complete end to slavery
a)
abolition
b)
abolitionist
c)
emancipation
d)
dehumanization
36.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest destiny 
b)
 Monroe Doctrine 
c)
 Great Awakening 
d)
Louisiana Purchase
37.
What territorial acquisition doubled the size of the United States?
a)
Florida Cession
b)
Mexican Cession
c)
Louisiana Purchase
d)
Oregon Treaty
38.
Texans fought for independence against what country?
a)
United States
b)
Mexico
c)
France
d)
Great Britain
39.

This list describes --

a)

economic motives for Manifest Destiny

b)

reasons for issuing the Monroe Doctrine

c)

reasons for the Gadsden Purchase

d)

economic motives for the Northwest Ordinance

40.

Which U.S. President was elected for his Manifest Destiny beliefs?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Martin Van Buren

c)

James K. Polk

d)

John Tyler

41.

Identify a major social reason for Manifest Destiny.

a)

America was experiencing a rapid population growth.

b)

to withdraw from foreign affairs

c)

to spread states' rights

d)

to prohibit the spread of slavery

42.

Which reason did the U.S. give for declaring war on Mexico?

a)

to overturn a corrupt Mexican government

b)

to defend U.S territory from Mexican aggression

c)

to end a Mexican slave rebellion

d)

to respond to attacks from U.S. merchant ships by Mexican pirates

43.

Name of the land we gained after the Mexican American War

a)

13 colonies

b)

Treaty of Paris

c)

Louisiana Purchase

d)

Mexican Cession

44.

Which was NOT a state in the Mexican Cession?

a)

Texas

b)

California

c)

Utah

d)

Nevada

45.

Which river is the current border between Texas and Mexico?

a)

Nueces River

b)

Mississippi River

c)

Mexico River

d)

Rio Grande River

46.

Which is the Gadsden Purchase?

a)

5

b)

6

c)

7

d)

8

47.

Which is the Mexican Cession?

a)

5

b)

6

c)

7

d)

8

48.

Congress can make laws that are necessary and ______ for carrying out its powers.

a)

powerful

b)

proper

c)

unrelated

d)

expensive

49.

McCulloch v. Maryland was about whether a state could _______ a U.S. bank.

a)

tax

b)

issue

c)

nullify

d)

ratify

50.

McCulloch v. Maryland was about whether the Constitution lets Congress start a _____.

a)

tax

b)

national bank

c)

privatized education system

d)

war

51.

The Constitution says laws of the United States are:

a)

supreme

b)

necessary

52.

The Court said Maryland could not interfere with the business of the ______ government.

a)

national

b)

state

53.

Before steam was invented most people travelled

a)

locally only, never really leaving the farm

b)

by walking

c)

by horse and carriage

d)

all of the above

54.

One way to improve shipping in inland areas

a)

people built better roads

b)

canals were built alongside rivers and between bodies of water

c)

attached more horses to the wagon trains

d)

There was little expansion, people stayed in one place.

55.

Where was the Erie Canal?

a)

Upstate New York

b)

Central Massachusetts

c)

Connecticut

d)

Rhode Island

56.

What transportation industries were first to gain the benefits of steam power?

a)

factories

b)

ships

c)

railroads

d)

ships and railroads

57.

Steamboats revolutionized travel in which part of the country first?

a)

New England

b)

Midwest and Prairie States

c)

West Coast

d)

Florida

58.

How was steam powered first applied to land transportation?

a)

car

b)

railroad

c)

horse carriage

d)

uber

59.
Using the image, what was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?
a)
The Monroe Doctrine created a chain of islands in the Atlantic Ocean that were available to everyone except European nations.
b)
The Monroe Doctrine was the first step by the United Nations to divide the world up into seven different continents.
c)
The Monroe Doctrine was created to keep the United States out of foreign affairs and to keep European countries from trying to claim lands in North America.
60.
What was the main idea of Manifest Destiny, as represented in John Gast’s painting, “American Progress”?
a)
That Americans had a God-given right to move west.
b)
Americans using a variety of methods to transport goods.
c)
Americans pursuing natural resources to the west.
d)
Americans had to respect the land of the United States.

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