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Industrial Revolution

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  • Q1
    The steamboat was an improvement over barges because it could
    travel upstream.
    provide onboard entertainment.
    navigate smaller rivers.
    carry more cargo.
    30s
  • Q2
    Which of the following was NOT true of the first “Iron Horses”?
    They helped expand trade between the nation’s different regions.
    They were a clean and comfortable way to travel.
    They traveled much faster than stagecoaches or wagons.
    They helped settle the West.
    30s
  • Q3
    The Boston Manufacturing Company, a huge textile mill, employed mostly women and children because
    the company wanted to help families who needed more than one income.
    the company could not find enough men to fill all the available jobs.
    they would work for lower wages than men.
    their small fingers were well suited to spinning cloth.
    30s
  • Q4
    Cities grew in the United States during industrialization because
    the higher wages of factory jobs drew people from farms and villages.
    the excitement of city life drew people from farms and villages.
    the more challenging factory jobs lured people away from farm work.
    the higher standard of living offered to factory workers drew people from farms.
    30s
  • Q5
    A cotton gin
    removes cotton seeds.
    picks cotton.
    spins cotton into cloth.
    bales cotton.
    30s
  • Q6
    In the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, Spain
    agreed to control the Seminoles.
    ceded Florida to the U.S.
    ceded New Mexico to the U.S.
    agreed to return runaway slaves.
    30s
  • Q7
    The limited liability provision of incorporation laws meant that
    the debts a bankrupt corporation would owe was limited to the worth of its stock.
    a corporation would not have to repay its debts if it went bankrupt.
    a bankrupt corporation’s tax liability was limited to the worth of its stock.
    a person who bought stock in a corporation would not be responsible for the company’s debts if it went bankrupt.
    30s
  • Q8
    What transportation project from Albany to Buffalo was completed in 1825?
    National Road
    Wilderness Road
    Albany Turnpike
    Erie Canal
    30s
  • Q9
    In the case Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Supreme Court ruled that
    child labor was illegal.
    labor organizing was illegal.
    a workday of 10 hours was illegal.
    union strikes were legal.
    30s
  • Q10
    took the Clermont 150 miles up the Hudson River
    Robert Fulton
    Samuel F.B. Morse
    Francis C. Lowell
    Eli Whitney
    30s
  • Q11
    transformed gun-making into a factory process
    Frederick Douglass
    Eli Whitney
    Nat Turner
    Samuel F.B. Morse
    30s
  • Q12
    rose from slavery to become a prominent leader of the antislavery movement
    Frederick Douglass
    Robert Fulton
    John Adams
    Denmark Vesey
    30s
  • Q13
    built a railway system that used steam locomotives
    Nat Turner
    Samuel F.B. Morse
    George Stephenson
    Denmark Vesey
    30s
  • Q14
    perfected the telegraph in 1832
    Cecee McCarty
    Robert Fulton
    John Deere
    Samuel F.B. Morse
    30s
  • Q15
    allowed machines to turn out large quantities of identical pieces that workers assembled into finished products
    labor union
    interchangeable parts
    National Road
    protective tariff
    30s
  • Q16
    a tax on imports to drive up their prices
    National Road
    labor union
    protective tariff
    interchangeable parts
    30s
  • Q17
    organization that usually focused on a single trade in the late 1820s and early 1830s
    labor union
    interchangeable parts
    protective tariff
    National Road
    30s
  • Q18
    extended from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia
    Mississippi River
    Ohio River
    Erie Canal
    National Road
    30s
  • Q19
    The phrase "Era of Good Feelings" was used to describe the ____________________ presidency.
    Lincoln
    Monroe
    Trump
    Hayes
    30s
  • Q20
    The Creek people who retreated to Florida as American settlers seized their land renamed themselves ____________________, meaning “runaway” or “separatist.”
    Pueblo
    Seminole
    Hopi
    Hohokam
    30s

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