Chapter 14 Chapter Test Study Guide

Question 1

What change in technology allowed businesses to sell their goods in markets across the country?

Answer 1

The growth of the railroad

Question 2

How did the inventions of John Deere and Cyrus McCormick improve farming?

Answer 2

Helped to increase agricultural production in the United States.

Question 3

What invention improved communication in the United States?

Answer 3

The Telegraph

Question 4

_________ is at the heart of the industrial revolution.

Answer 4

Technology

Question 5

List any reform leader and discuss their role in their particular reform movement.

Answer 5

Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading slaves to freedom before the Civil War, while carrying a bounty on her head.

Question 6

What effects did the Transportation Revolution have on American in the 1800s?

Answer 6

Reducing the time and cost of shipping products, making travel upstream on rivers faster and easier, helping to create a boom in business and agriculture across the nation

Question 7

What does this song say about the desires of enslaved African Americans?

“Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel, Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel. An’ why not every man?’

Answer 7

It expresses their desire to be delivered from slavery.

Question 8

“Americans must rule America, and to this end, native-born citizens should be selected for all state, federal, and municipal offices of government employment, in preference to all others.”

Using the above Excerpt, by what other name was the American Party called? How do they feel about immigrants?

Answer 8

Known as the “Know Nothing Party”

They felt that Government positions should only be held by people born in America.