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Test Review - Unit 5 - Industrialization & Reform Movements

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One result of rapid industrialization was the rise of labor unions that fought for workers’ rights. Which statement best explains how the Bill of Rights supported these movements?

a)

It protected citizens’ freedom of speech and assembly.

b)

It required employers to provide fair wages to their workers.

c)

It guaranteed men and women would receive equal pay for work.

d)

It limited the number of hours employees could work each day.

2.

Which action by reformers and workers during the industrial era best demonstrates the principle of popular sovereignty?

a)

Assembling in labor unions and petitioning the government for safer working conditions.

b)

The Supreme Court using judicial review to strike down a state law.

c)

The national and state governments sharing power over railroad regulations.

d)

The president vetoing a bill passed by Congress related to factory inspections.

3.

Based on the trend that foreign immigration to the US rapidly increased during the 1800s, what was one effect of the increase in immigration on the U.S. economy?

a)

It created widespread unemployment.

b)

It increased the prices of imported goods.

c)

It provided a large labor force for manufacturing.

d)

It slowed westward expansion and growth.

4.

What were two ways that the invention of the steamboat affected the development of the United States?

a)

It became faster and easier to

move goods and people.

b)

The use of the steamboat

discouraged westward

expansion and Manifest Destiny.

c)

Travel by steamboat reduced

the price of goods because of

the ease of movement.

d)

The steamboat had a negative effect on the US economy by putting horse and carriage operators out of business.

5.

"The making of guns went from a slow, skillful process to an easy routine that unskilled workers could perform."

What is being described in this quote?

a)

Spinning jenny and the textile industry.

b)

Interchangeable parts and mass production.

c)

Cotton gin and the plantation system.

d)

Steam engine and railroad commerce.

6.

• News and information spread much more rapidly.

• Railroads improved safety and scheduling.

• Businesses could coordinate prices between distant markets.

Which new technology from the early 1800's is being described?

a)

Telegraph

b)

Cotton Gin

c)

Interchangeable Parts

d)

Spinning Jenny

7.

Which statement would MOST LIKELY have been said by someone who immigrated to the United States from China in the mid-1800s? Choose the best answer.

a)

"I fled famine in my homeland only to find difficult conditions in the United States. I settled in Boston, but I found it difficult to find work because people discriminated against me for my religion and ethnicity."

b)

"I left my homeland because of political unrest there. I settled in Wisconsin, because the land there reminded me of home. I now have a successful farm."

c)

"I left my homeland to avoid harsh rule by the king who claimed my land. I settled in the Carolina backcountry with other members of my clan. We've built log cabins and I make my living as a craftsman."

d)

"I left my homeland because I was inspired by stories of gold in California. When I didn't find gold, I got a job helping build the railroad. I faced a lot of discrimination."

8.

Which statement would MOST LIKELY have been said by someone who immigrated to the United States from Ireland in the mid-1800s? Choose the best answer.

a)

"I fled famine in my homeland only to find difficult conditions in the United States. I settled in Boston, but I found it difficult to find work because people discriminated against me for my religion and ethnicity."

b)

"I left my homeland because of political unrest there. I settled in Wisconsin, because the land there reminded me of home. I now have a successful farm."

c)

"I left my homeland to avoid harsh rule by the king who claimed my land. I settled in the Carolina backcountry with other members of my clan. We've built log cabins and I make my living as a craftsman."

d)

"I left my homeland because I was inspired by stories of gold in California. When I didn't find gold, I got a job helping build the railroad. I faced a lot of discrimination."

9.

Which statement would MOST LIKELY have been said by someone who immigrated to the United States from Germany in the mid-1800s? Choose the best answer.

a)

"I fled famine in my homeland only to find difficult conditions in the United States. I settled in Boston, but I found it difficult to find work because people discriminated against me for my religion and ethnicity."

b)

"I left my homeland because of political unrest there. I settled in Wisconsin, because the land there reminded me of home. I now have a successful farm."

c)

"I left my homeland to avoid harsh rule by the king who claimed my land. I settled in the Carolina backcountry with other members of my clan. We've built log cabins and I make my living as a craftsman."

d)

"I left my homeland because I was inspired by stories of gold in California. When I didn't find gold, I got a job helping build the railroad. I faced a lot of discrimination."

10.

The Great Famine in (a)   greatly impacted immigration to the United States. A disease destroyed their main source of food which was ​ (b)   . This caused the first ​ (c)   to the United States during the 1840s.

Choose from the below words
Ireland

Germany

China
buffalo
potatoes
rice
mass migration
mass extinction
mass deportation
11.

Which goal was William Lloyd Garrison seeking to accomplish through his newspaper, The Liberator?

a)

Restriction on immigration

b)

Free public education

c)

Abolition of slavery

d)

Prison reforms

12.

What was Frederick Douglass' main purpose in publishing his newspaper The North Star? Choose the best answer.

a)

He spread information about the injustices of slavery in his newspaper.

b)

He utilized his profits to hire runaway enslaved people to work at his newspaper.

c)

He utilized his newspaper to encourage plantation owners to end slavery.

d)

He started a school for runaway enslaved people in his newspaper offices.

13.

Which excerpt from the North Star shows that Frederick Douglass was determined to show the horrors of slavery through his newspaper?

a)

be they composed of church and state

b)

under which tyranny may aim to conceal and protect itself

c)

has just left our office, an amiable, kind, and intelligent looking young woman

d)

initials of the name of her infernal master, is cut in large capitals

14.

How did John Brown's actions at Harpers Ferry advance the cause of disunion between the North and South?

a)

Some Northerners were willing to defend the South’s right to continue slavery.

b)

Some Southerners were willing to take up arms to protest high tariffs.

c)

Some abolitionists thought violence was necessary to end slavery.

d)

Some people in territories needed to defend their right to popular sovereignty.

15.

Migrants from this continent were seeking economic opportunities in the North

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Europe

16.

Migrants from this continent were looking for religious freedom, mainly in the North and the East.

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Europe

17.

Migrants from this continent were forcibly brought to the South and West as enslaved labor.

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Europe

18.

Migrants from this continent sought economic opportunities in the West despite discrimination.

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Europe

19.

Frederick Douglass was a member of which reform movement?

a)

The Shakers

b)

Education

c)

Temperance

d)

Abolition

20.

Match the following reform movement to the reformer(s).

a)

Horace Mann

1.

Education Reform

b)

William Lloyd Garrison & Frederick Douglass

2.

Abolition

c)

Dorothea Dix

3.

Prison & Mental Illness

d)

Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau

4.

Transcendentalism

e)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott

5.

Women's Rights