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8th grade Notebook quiz MP1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The belief the US should expand from coast-to-coast

a)

National Road

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Transcontinental Railroad

2.

Americans moved Westward after

a)

The Mexican-English War

b)

the Gold Rush

c)

the Industrial Revolution

d)

The purchase of the Louisiana Territory

3.

Reasons for moving West (select all that apply)

a)

Gold

b)

Homestead Act

c)

overcrowded cities

d)

invention of cars

4.

The United States acquired Arizona and New Mexico in

a)

The Indian Removal Act of 1830

b)

the Gadsden Purchase

c)

The Dawes Act

d)

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago

5.

When Native Americans were forcibly removed off their land and marched thousands of miles to land west of the Mississippi River

a)

Indian Removal Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Trail of Tears

d)

Gadsden Purchase

6.

Select all "pros" of the industrial Revolution

a)

Urbanization

b)

Goods became more affordable

c)

improved quality of life

d)

Environmental illness

7.

The Lowell Mill Girls (select all that apply)

a)

were usually above the age of 18

b)

were uneducated

c)

worked 60 hour weeks

d)

Paid in cash weekly or every other week

8.

Lewis Hine was

a)

a banker

b)

a steel manufacturer

c)

a photographer

d)

an oil tycoon

9.

Steel industry tycoon

a)

John Rockefeller

b)

Lewis Hine

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Andrew Carnegie

10.

This person made their money from oil

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

JohnD Rockefeller

d)

Lewis Hine