Unit 8 Part 2 Review

How did this invention contribute to the expansion of the plantation system?

• By reducing the number of slaves needed for growing cotton

• By increasing the time needed to cultivate cotton

• By increasing the profitability ($$) of slavery

• By reducing the demand for raw cotton

Which box lists some results of improved steamboat technology in the United States in the mid-1830s?

• A

• B

• C

• D

How did Samuel Morse's best-known innovation contribute to U.S. growth and development?

• It enabled instantaneous long-distance transmission of information.

• It allowed manufactured goods to be produced at lower costs.

• It boosted the speed of cross-country mail delivery.

• It increased national unity by reducing sectional differences.

What impact did this innovation have on daily life?

• It increased the regional differences among various groups of people across the country.

• It became a major method of long-distance communication for many years.

• It allowed people to sign legal documents from across the country.

• It was the government's only method to negotiate with foreign leaders.

The development of the factory system in the early 1800s caused --

• a decrease in free trade between nations

• an increase in government regulation of businesses

• an increase in production levels

• a decrease in immigration

How did the growth of the railway system during the nineteenth century affect the U.S. economy?

• By helping expand the commercial markets of U.S. companies

• By making it easier for people in rural areas to work in urban factories

• By helping strengthen the economic ties between U.S. and British companies

• By permitting faster communication between corporate leaders and their employees.

The process of economic development based on factory production

• innovation

• interchangeable parts

• industrialization

• transportation

• communication

Creating new ideas, products, or methods

• innovation

• interchangeable parts

• industrialization

• transportation

• communication

parts that can be swapped for one another in the assembling of a product, because they have been manufactured to be identical

• innovation

• interchangeable parts

• industrialization

• transportation

• communication

a system or means of moving people or goods

• innovation

• interchangeable parts

• industrialization

• transportation

• communication