Chapter 11 & 12 Test Review

Question 1

__________ connected markets in New York to the Midwest.

Answer 1

Erie Canal

Question 2

___________ developed a system of interchangeable parts.

Answer 2

Eli Whitney

Question 3

_________________ opened a textile mill that combined spinning and weaving.

Answer 3

Francis Cabot Lowell

Question 4

By the 1850s, __________ linked many towns with cities and factories and opened new markets for the northern economy.

Answer 4

Railroads

Question 5

The Industrial Revolution began in the _________.

Answer 5

textile industry

Question 6

Name all parts of the Missouri Compromise.

Answer 6

1. The Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri would be free of slavery.
2. Maine would be admitted into the Union as a free state.
3. Missouri would be admitted into the Union as a slave state.
4. Southern plantation owners could travel anywhere to recapture runaway slaves.

Question 7

What did nativist believe?

Answer 7

America belongs only to white Protestants born in the United States.

Question 8

What allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a free state?

Answer 8

Missouri Compromise

Question 9

Most southern white men were ________.

Answer 9

farmers

Question 10

Robert Fulton is known as the inventor of the ______.

Answer 10

Steamboat

Question 11

What are three results of the invention of the cotton gin?

Answer 11

1. Cotton profits increased enormously.
2. Cotton production increases required more slaves.
3. Cotton plantations extended as far west as Texas.

Question 12

Which of the following could be made with interchangeable parts (toasters, sewing needles, paintings, spoons)?

Answer 12

toasters

Question 13

What are three reasons for immigration to the United States during this period?

Answer 13

1. Famine in foreign countries.
2. Failed revolutions in foreign countries.
3. Cheap land in the United States.

Question 14

Pick one invention of this time period and explain its importance to the northern economy.

Answer 14

Telegram - This increased the communication from the Northeast to the West, and as a result more markets were opened for the North to sell their products.
Railroads - This increased the ability for factories to transport goods throughout the country and increasing trade and its profits.
(*There are many more that you could use).

Question 15

What effects did the Industrial Revolution have on population?

Answer 15

Population increased because people went to the cities to find jobs in the new factories being built. The machines and steam power allowed factories to be built anywhere, so cities grew rapidly.

Question 16

Leaders of the Second Great Awakening favored the doctrine of free will instead of the older idea of predestination. This led many to believe that ____________.

Answer 16

people can make their lives and their society better.

Question 17

Which person did reform work based the belief that public education is essential for democracy to work?

Answer 17

Horace Mann

Question 18

Why was Frederick Douglass such a powerful speaker for abolitionists?

Answer 18

As an escaped slave, he knew what slavery was like and risked being sent back to slavery.

Question 19

What is the Underground Railroad?

Answer 19

It was a network of people who secretly helped slaves reach freedom.

Question 20

What is the attitude about abolition held by some northern workers?

Answer 20

There were against abolition because they feared that former slaves would take their jobs.

Question 21

If you lived in the early 1800s, which of these people would you not meet? (a bride, a woman with 3 children, a female town mayor, a farm wife)

Answer 21

a female town mayor

Question 22

What happened when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton went to a meeting at the international anti-slavery convention in London?

Answer 22

They were told women were not permitted.

Question 23

What does suffrage mean?

Answer 23

the right to vote

Question 24

What the favorite subject of American painters in the mid-1800s?

Answer 24

American daily lives (not European)

Question 25

Choose one of the following people who worked to bring an end to slavery. William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, or Harriet Tubman. Describe that person and how he or she fought to bring an end to slavery.

Answer 25

William Lloyd Garrison - He wrote a newspaper called The Liberator which inspired people to disagree with slavery and see the evils of it.
Frederick Douglass - As an escaped slave, he spoke to large audiences inspiring people to reject slavery and to understand the evils of it. At any point, he could have been returned to slavery.
Harriet Tubman - “Black Moses” as she was called escaped slavery and returned to the South many times to help over 300 slaves escape slavery through the Underground Railroad.

Question 26

Study Chapter 11 Section 2 graph and the two questions related to it. I could not put this on here.

Answer 26

Please see the worksheet 11.2 questions 9 & 10.