3rd Nine Weeks Benchmark/Mock STAAR

1. Which of the following inventions impacted life by making crop production more efficient? Check all that apply.

• Cotton Gin

• Telegraph

• Steel Plow

• Mechanical Reaper

What invention led to the expansion of the Plantation System?

• Steel Plow

• Cotton Gin

• Interchangeable Parts

• Factory System

How did the Eerie Canal affect urbanization?

• Cities grew along canal routes

• Immigrants were able to commute to work easier

• Cities shrank along canal routes

• Factories were able to get their goods to market

Which term describes the growth of cities?

• Industrialization

• Urbanization

• Suffrage

• Abolition

Which movement focused on the relationship between man and nature?

• Enlightenment

• Transcendentalism

Which movement held that society and it's laws were corrupt and the individual must judge morality for themself?

• Transcendentalism

• Enlightenment

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were both....

• Abolitionists

• Enlightenment Philosophers

• Inventors

• Transcendentalist Writers

Which era in US History viewed westward expansion as our divine, god-given right and destiny?

• Revolution

• Age of Jackson

• Manifest Destiny

• Reconstruction

Which invention helped farmers by protecting their crops from animals?

• Barbed Wire

• Steel Plow

• Electric Fence

• Cotton Gin

William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Quakers all fought for what important reform movement?

• Suffrage

• Prison Reform

• Public Education

• Abolition