Discovering Our Past: The American Journey to World War I

Chapter 8: The Northeast: Building Industry

Self-Check Quiz

1
The major elements of _________ are competition, profit, private property, and economic freedom.
A)communism
B)the factory system
C)free enterprise
D)the Industrial Revolution
2
The _________ was a time of invention and economic growth when people left their homes and farms to work in mills and factories to earn wages.
A)American Revolution
B)Enlightenment
C)Industrial Revolution
D)Agricultural Revolution
3
Because steamboat travel was limited to existing river systems in the 1820s, __________ were built to link the eastern and western parts of America together.
A)paved roads
B)canals
C)airport runways
D)railroad tracks
4
The first official count of the population of the United States, or __________, was taken in 1790. It showed a population of nearly four million Americans.
A)census
B)taxation
C)roll call
D)resolution
5
By the 1830s, skilled workers had formed __________, which were groups of people who made a living in the same trade.
A)strikes
B)political parties
C)trade unions
D)protest groups
6
The nativists in the “Know-Nothing Party” believed that __________.
A)immigration was not a threat
B)that immigrants should immediately become citizens
C)foreign-born citizens should not be allowed to hold public office
D)there were plenty of jobs in the United States for immigrants and American-born citizens
7
What term describes refusing to obey the laws one feels to be unjust?
A)revival
B)civil disobedience
C)temperance
D)utopia
8
Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A)Harriet Beecher Stowe
B)Dorothea Dix
C)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D)Henry David Thoreau
9
Many women reformers of the 1800s were __________ who enjoyed a certain amount of equality with men in their communities.
A)Mormons
B)African Americans
C)Southerners
D)Quakers
10
__________ was the first of several states to allow a woman to seek divorce from a man who was a chronic abuser of alcohol.
A)Wyoming
B)Indiana
C)Colorado
D)Massachusetts
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