Weekly Quiz Unit 8 week 1

How did Samuel Morse's best known invention contribute to US 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.

How did the cotton gin 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 of the following statements accurately describes an effect of the 19th century inventions by Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton?

• Farming techniques improved providing better food distribution to poverty stricken Americans

• Communication and transportation became more efficient allowing manufacturers to lower prices

• Transporation excellerated westward settlement and allowed agricultural goods to be shipped around the world

• Industrialization spread to the Midwest providing factory jobs for the unemployed Plains states

Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper changed grain production by--

• Forcing most small farms out of business

• Improving crop resistance to insects

• Enabling farmers to grown wheat in rocky soil

• Reducing the amount of labor required for harvesting

Which factor accounts for the decreased percentage of the rural population in the US by decade?

• The Second Great Awakening motivated people to join reform movements

• Manifest Destiny inspired many people to become homesteaders

• Jacksonian Democracy allowed more people to vote in elections.

• The industrial revolution encouraged people to pursue jobs in cities

The construction of railroads and canals benefitted Northern industries by--

• increasing the flow of Southern products westward

• promoting Urbanization in the South and West

• Facilitating the faster movement of products

• Slowing migration to the cities of the North

Which type of economy is described by limited government, supply and demand, and profits?

• Subsistence farming

• Free Enterprise

• Mercantilism

• Socialism

One motivating factor that pulled many to settle in Northeastern US urban areas was--

• the expansion of slavery in Southern States

• the decreasing of availability of land for farming

• the increasing demand for low-skilled factory labor

• the persecution of religious groups in Western territories

How did the growth of the Daughters of Temperance and the Women's Christian Temperance Union most effect the role of women in US society?

• by providing economic opportunities for women in urban areas

• by expanding the participation of women in social reform

• by increasing the number of teachers in rural areas

• by securing the establishment of private universities for women

Improvements in the human treatments of prisoners and the sanitary conditions of hospitals can be contributed to which of the following reformers-

• Dorothea Dix

• Fredrick Douglass

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton