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Industrialization, Immigration and Reform Movements

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
This list below describes the nineteenth-century experiences of immigrants from?
a)
Italy
b)
China
c)
Germany
d)
Japan 
2.
Which group was responsible for these contributions to American culture?
a)
Chinese Americans
b)
African Americans
c)
German Americans
d)
Italian Americans
3.
During the early 1800s many young women in New England were employed outside their homes as?
a)
crew members on cargo ships.
b)
cloth weavers in textile mills.
c)
H staff reporters for local newspapers.
d)
legal counselors in state courts.
4.
What was one major effect of the opening of the Erie Canal?
a)
The cost of shipping goods on eastern roads increased.
b)
The number of ships passing through northern ports decreased.
c)
The cost of shipping goods from the Midwest decreased.
d)
The volume of trade passing through southern ports increased.
5.
Which of these best completes the diagram below?
a)
The demand for slaves increases in the South.
b)
More textile factories are established in the South.
c)
The number of European immigrants arriving at southern port cities increases.
d)
More tobacco and food crops are cultivated on southern plantations.
6.
Which pull factor accounted for much of Chinese immigration to the United States in the mid-1800s?
a)
An opportunity for free land in the Midwest.
b)
The prospect of religious freedom.
c)
An economic boom in the West.
d)
The possibility of a free education.
7.
In the 1840s, thousands of Irish immigrants came to the United States seeking to escape?
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.
8.
How did this invention below contribute to the expansion of the plantation system?
a)
By reducing the number of slaves needed for growing cotton.
b)
By increasing the time needed to cultivate cotton.
c)
By increasing the profitability of slavery.
d)
By reducing the demand for raw cotton.
9.
The innovation shown in this photograph below most affected the U.S. economy by?
a)
decreasing the need for canals.
b)
allowing more efficient movement of goods.
c)
reducing the costs of settling in western territories.
d)
transporting workers from southern states to northern states.
10.
The introduction of interchangeable parts led directly to the?
a)
formation of the patent system.
b)
creation of labor unions.
c)
use of mass-production techniques.
d)
eight-hour workday.
11.

Religious movement that led to social reforms

a)

Temperance

b)

2nd Great Awakening

c)

Suffrage

d)

Transcendentalism

12.

Movement to end of reduce the use of alcohol

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Hudson River School

c)

Transcendentalism

d)

Temperance

13.

Leader in education reform; Wanted to make school available for everyone

a)

Dorthea Dix

b)

Horace Mann

c)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

14.

Movement that taught that man could get closer to God through nature

a)

Transcendentalism

b)

2nd Great Awakening

c)

Temperance

d)

Abolitionism

15.

Someone opposed to slavery

a)

Suffrage

b)

Transcendentalism

c)

Seneca Falls

d)

Abolitionist

16.

The writer of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" - showed the cruelty of slavery

a)

Henry David Thoreau

b)

Horace Mann

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

17.

Famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

John James Audubon

c)

Lucretia Mott

d)

Susan B Anthony

18.

The right to vote

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Suffrage

c)

Temperance

d)

2nd Great Awakening

19.

The state where the Seneca Falls Convention was held

a)

New York

b)

New Jersey

c)

New Mexico

d)

New Hampshire

20.

Worked for prison reform and care for the mentally ill

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Lucretia Mott

c)

Dorthea Dix

d)

Susan B Anthony

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