Chapter #11 Practice Test
Name: _______________________________________________
Date: __________
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not be used at all. Some may be
used more than once.
A. factory system
B. Robert Fulton
C. Industrial Revolution
D. Lowell
E. Samuel F. B. Morse
F. Samuel Slater
____ 1. The secrets of the British textile industry made it possible to build the first successful water-powered textile mill in America.
____ 2. Workers and machines came together under one roof, usually near a source of water to power the machines.
____ 3. The steamboat improved transportation by carrying people and goods faster, even against a river current or a strong wind.
____ 4. The telegraph allowed a person to communicate almost instantly with other people in distant places.
____ 5. Machines replaced hand tools, and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main source of work.
____ 6. Young girls lived in company-owned boardinghouses and worked in factories for 12 hours a day.
Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 7. The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by
A. Catherine Greene.
B. Eli Whitney.
____ 8. How did the cotton gin change the South?
A. It made the South less dependent on slave labor.
B. It increased the costs of growing cotton.
C. Frederick Douglass.
D. Robert Fulton.
C. It raised the price that Southerners could get for their
cotton.
D. It encouraged Southerners to grow more cotton.
____ 9. The songs in which enslaved people of the South expressed their religious beliefs or passed coded messages were called
A. spirituals.
C. blues songs.
B. folk songs.
D. gospel music.
____ 10. For what is Nat Turner best known?
A. preaching sermons to convince slaves to accept slavery
B. helping slaves to escape to freedom in the North
C. leading an armed revolt of some 70 slaves
D. proposing the idea for the cotton gin
____ 11. Which invention did Samuel F. B. Morse create, and what was its effect?
A. cotton gin-made cotton the major cash crop in the South
C. steamboat-led to faster transportation and improved trade
B. telegraph-allowed people to communicate over long distances
D. plow-increased farm production
____ 12. What idea of Eli Whitney transformed manufacturing by making each copy of a manufactured item exactly alike?
A. telephone
C. tariff
B. spinning machines
D. interchangeable parts
____ 13. Where were most of the nation's early factories built?
A. the Northwest Territory
B. the South
C. New England
D. the Midwest
____ 14. How did the improvements in transportation change life in the 1800s?
A. They encouraged national unity by linking distant places.
C. They made the movement of people and products cheaper
and easier.
B. They opened up larger markets for products.
D. All of the above
____ 15. A person who put the interests of his or her state or region ahead of what was best for the rest of the nation was demonstrating
what attitude?
A. sectionalism
C. nationalism
B. federalism
D. Good Feelings
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____ 16. About which region did Monroe specifically direct part of his Monroe Doctrine?
A. Great Britain
C. France
B. Latin America
D. Spain
____ 17. Which of the following is an accurate statement about the "American System"?
A. It was a plan to make the United States economically
C. It was a plan to encourage Americans to buy cheap European
self-sufficient.
goods.
B. It was a plan to extend slavery to include Native Americans.
D. It was a plan to support all individual state currencies.
____ 18. What was the Missouri Compromise?
A. an agreement to support James Monroe for president
B. a plan to improve the nation through a system of roads and
canals
____ 19. What modes of transportation improved the nation's economy?
A. canals, steamboats, improved roads, steam-powered trains
B. cars, bicycles, canals, improved roads
C. a plan to allow slavery to spread into some areas but not
others
D. an agreement between the nation's regions on a national
bank
C. steamboats, steam-powered trains, submarines
D. steamboats, steam-powered locomotives, cars
____ 20. In 1818 and 1819, the United States settled border disputes with which countries?
A. Spain and France
C. Spain and the Seminole nation
B. Britain and Spain
D. France and Mexico
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer. (4 points each)
A. Vandalia and Cumberland
B. Lake Erie and Ohio River
C. Cincinnati and Toledo
D. Pittsburgh and Columbia
E. Hudson River and Lake Erie
____ 21. Which two cities did the Miami and Erie Canal connect?
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____ 22. Which two cities did the Cumberland Road connect?
____ 23. Which two bodies of water did the Erie Canal connect?
____ 24. Which two cities did the Pennsylvania Canal connect?
____ 25. Which two bodies of water did the Ohio and Erie Canal connect?
26. How did the Erie Canal affect trade for Northeasterners?
27. Which canal would a merchant use to transport goods from Albany to Buffalo?
28. Which part of the country did these new roads and canals benefit most?
29. What canal would a merchant use to transport goods from Pittsburgh to Columbia?
30. How far south do the canals reach? Name the southernmost city affected by the canals.
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Answer Sheet
1. F. Samuel Slater
2. A. factory system
3. B. Robert Fulton
4. E. Samuel F. B. Morse
5. C. Industrial Revolution
6. D. Lowell
7. B. Eli Whitney.
8. D. It encouraged Southerners to grow more cotton.
9. A. spirituals.
10. C. leading an armed revolt of some 70 slaves
11. B. telegraph-allowed people to communicate over long distances
12. D. interchangeable parts
13. C. New England
14. D. All of the above
15. A. sectionalism
16. B. Latin America
17. A. It was a plan to make the United States economically self-sufficient.
18. C. a plan to allow slavery to spread into some areas but not others
19. A. canals, steamboats, improved roads, steam-powered trains
20. B. Britain and Spain
21. C. Cincinnati and Toledo
22. A. Vandalia and Cumberland
23. E. Hudson River and Lake Erie
24. D. Pittsburgh and Columbia
25. B. Lake Erie and Ohio River
26. The canal connected New York (and the East coast in general) with the Great Lakes region. It gave Northeastern traders and
manufacturers access to whole new regions for trade.
27. Erie Canal
28. the North rather than the South
29. [Pennsylvania Canal]
30. Portsmouth, Ohio
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Standards Summary
CA 8.10.2
Trace the boundaries constituting the North and the South, the geographical differences
between the two regions, and the differences between agrarians and industrialists
CA 8.12.9
Name the significant inventors and their inventions and identify how they improved the
quality of life (e.g., Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Orville and Wilbur Wright)
CA 8.4.1
Describe the country's physical landscapes, political divisions, and territorial expansion
during the terms of the first four presidents
CA 8.4
Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation
CA 8.5.2
Know the changing boundaries of the United States and describe the relationships the
country had with its neighbors (current Mexico and Canada) and Europe, including the
influence of the Monroe Doctrine, and how those relationships influenced westward
expansion and the Mexican-American War
CA 8.5
Students analyze U.S. foreign policy in the early Republic
CA 8.6.1
Discuss the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region,
including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped
human actions (e.g., growth of cities, deforestation, farming, mineral extraction)
CA 8.6.2
Outline the physical obstacles to and the economic and political factors involved in
building a network of roads, canals, and railroads (e.g., Henry Clay's American System)
CA 8.7.1
Describe the development of the agrarian economy in the South, identify the locations of
the cotton-producing states, and discuss the significance of cotton and the cotton gin
CA 8.7.2
Trace the origins and development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the
region's political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and identify the
strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writings and
historical documents on Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey)
CA 8.9.5
Analyze the significance of the States' Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise
(1820), the Wilmot Proviso (1846), the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay's role in the
Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854),
the Dred Scott vs.Sandford decision (1857), and the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)
CA CST 3
Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of
neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of
people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems.
CA HI 1
Students explain the central issues and problems from the past, placing people and events
in a matrix of time and place.
CA HI 3
Students explain the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas
and events explains the emergence of new patterns.
CA HI
Historical Interpretation
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