Vocabulary
What is a telegraph?
A device that sent electric signals to send messages.
What are the three phases of industrialization?
Divide jobs into smaller steps, build factories, use machines to complete tasks
By 1850, which of these was the most efficient way to move goods in the North?
a. by railroad
b. by canal boat
c. by steamboat
d. by stagecoach
a. by railroad
Francis Cabot Lowell began the 'factory system' in the United States. What effect did the factory system have on manufacturing?
a. All manufacturers chose to avoid hiring women and children.
b. All manufacturing steps were designed to prevent pollution.
c. All manufacturing steps were combined in one place.
d. All manufacturers agreed to support labor unions.
c. All manufacturing steps were combined in one place.
What was a significant economic difference between the New England, Middle, and Southern British colonial regions?
a. New England relied primarily on cash crops like tobacco and cotton for export.
b. The Middle colonies focused on shipbuilding, trade, and manufacturing.
c. The Southern colonies had a diversified economy including fishing, shipbuilding, and trade.
d. The New England colonies relied on agriculture, particularly rice and indigo cultivation
b. The Middle colonies focused on shipbuilding, trade, and manufacturing.
What is a famine?
An extreme shortage of food
Name three important inventions during the industrial revolution.
Answers may vary
How did the steamboat affect major inland waterways in the United States?
a. It made Southern waterways as profitable as those in the North.
b. It re-introduced slavery along the Ohio River to help ship goods.
c. It created a practical way to ship goods upstream as well as downstream.
d. It created a new transportation system for settlers west of the Mississippi River.
c. It created a practical way to ship goods upstream as well as downstream.
How did the invention of the steam engine contribute to economic growth?
a. Farms needed more workers to operate new agriculture machines.
b. Manufactures benefited from the power generated by waterwheels.
c. Steam power made machines and factories safer to operate.
d. Factories could be built and operated away from sources of running water.
d. Factories could be built and operated away from sources of running water.
Which proposal sought to unite the American colonies against the French?
a. Bill of Rights
b. Albany Plan of Union
c. Confederacy of England
d. U.S. Constitution
b. Albany Plan of Union
What is a Yeomen?
A farmer who owns a small farm.
What two things did Samuel Morse invent?
Telegraph and Morse Code
What impact did the development of canals have on the United States in the early 1800s?
a. They caused New York City to decline in population.
b. They led to a decline in American exports to European countries.
c. They helped the Midwest become a major center of textile production.
d. They helped Midwestern farmers ship their crops to cities in the Northeast.
d. They helped Midwestern farmers ship their crops to cities in the Northeast.
How did the cotton gin affect slaves?
a. It made their lives easier.
b. It increased the demand for slaves.
c. It decreased the need for slave labor.
d. It was the first step toward abolishing slavery.
b. It increased the demand for slaves.
Which argument is found in the Declaration of Independence?
a. The British government has failed to respect the rights of Native Americans.
b. The colonists have a right to change their government because it has violated the very rights it is supposed to protect.
c. The colonists have the right to declare independence because the British government is too far away to govern effectively.
d. The colonists should be able to elect their own representatives to Parliament before the British government imposes any more taxes.
b. The colonists have a right to change their government because it has violated the very rights it is supposed to protect.
What were slave codes?
Laws in a southern state that controlled enslaved people.
What did workers stage when they were not satisfied with working conditions?
A strike
What transformed trade in the nation's interior?
a. clipper ships
b. railways
c. sewing machines
d. telegraphs
b. railways
Which style of music was the creation of African American slaves?
a. opera
b. classical
c. spirituals
d. folk music
c. spirituals
What problem troubled Jefferson about the Louisiana Purchase?
a. All the land might cause factory workers to move West.
b. The Constitution did not empower the president to buy land
c. The Native Americans in the area refused to sign US treaties
d. France was selling the land for much less than it was worth
b. The Constitution did not empower the president to buy land
What was the Underground Railroad?
A network of "safe houses" owned by people opposed to slavery
What did Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass do?
Attempted to help free slaves!
A(n) ___ gives an inventor the sole legal right to make money from their invention for a certain period of time.
a. capital
b. enterprise
c. mortgage
d. patent
d. patent
How did plantation owners ensure that enslaved people worked hard on their land?
a. They paid higher wages to their best workers.
b. They paid workers based on how much cotton or other crops they produced.
c. They gave food to the families of workers who produced a certain amount of crops.
d. They use overseers and the threat of physical punishment for those who did not produce enough.
d. They use overseers and the threat of physical punishment for those who did not produce enough.
At the Constitutional Convention, how did the New Jersey Plan differ from the Virginia Plan?
a. The New Jersey Plan favored the direct election of the President by the people.
b. The New Jersey Plan favored equal representation for each state in Congress.
c. The New Jersey Plan favored proportional representation in two houses of Congress.
d. The New Jersey Plan proposed the selection of the President by the Electoral College.
b. The New Jersey Plan favored equal representation for each state in Congress.