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Grade 8 Industrialization
What key role did the railroads play in revolutionizing business and industry?
  1. A slower way of transporting goods
  2. Higher costs of production
  3. Creation of national markets to sell products nationwide
  4. Slowed down the growth of other industries
Grade 8 Industrialization
Who invented what was known as the "talking telegraph" in 1876?
  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Samuel Morse
  3. Alexander Graham Bell
  4. Andrew Carnegie
Grade 8 Industrialization
Which of the following was NOT a factor that contributed to the urbanization pattern of the Northeast?
  1. Machines that run by waterpower required factories to be located by lakes, rivers, and waterfalls.
  2. The Northeasterners were dedicated to farming because of the region's fertile soil.
  3. The factory system replaced the domestic system in the early 1800s.
  4. The first mills were established in the New England states.
Grade 8 Industrialization
What effect did the invention of the cotton gin have on the slave trade in the South?
  1. It led to the founding of antislavery organizations.
  2. Planters used more slave labor.
  3. Cotton growers depended less on the slave system.
  4. The cotton gin had very little lasting impact.
Grade 8 Industrialization
The growth of cities:
  1. social gospel
  2. urbanization
  3. new immigrants
  4. assimilation
Grade 8 Industrialization
The workers at Lowell, Massachusetts, were mostly
  1. women
  2. inventors
  3. German immigrants
  4. enslaved African Americans
Grade 8 Industrialization
The Industrial Revolution began to occur in which of the following time periods?
  1. 1776
  2. 1814
  3. 1907
  4. Late 1700's early 1800's
Grade 8 Industrialization
Improvements in transportation affected the price of goods by all but one of the following.
  1. Goods traveled faster and more cheaply.
  2. Merchants in East could sell goods at lower prices.
  3. Lower prices allowed more products to be purchased
  4. More demand caused rush on supply.
Grade 8 Industrialization
Which of the following were all cotton-producing states?
  1. Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Vermont
  2. New York, New Jersey, Maine, Ohio
  3. Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana
  4. Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Connecticut
Grade 8 Industrialization

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The late 1800's Oil Rush was mainly in                                  .
  1. California, Nevada, Utah
  2. Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia
  3. Florida, Georgia, Mississippi
  4. New Jersey, New York, Connecticut
Grade 8 Industrialization
Which strike was against Carnegie Steel?
  1. Haymarket Riot
  2. Pullman Strike
  3. Homestead Strike
Grade 8 Industrialization
In what way was Lowell, Massachusetts, a model factory town?
  1. Factories in Lowell were the first to employ young children.
  2. Factory workers were provided with decent housing and other facilities.
  3. The factory owners shortened the employees' workday.
  4. Factories in Lowell were the first to appear in the United States.
Grade 8 Industrialization
To solve the problem of currency circulation, Congress created the                          in 1913.
  1. Federal Reserve System
  2. Federal Railroad System
  3. Federal Credit Card System
  4. Federal Library System
Grade 8 Industrialization
'Genius is one per cent inspiration,
ninety-nine per cent perspiration'. - Who's the Author of this quote?
  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Dale Carnegie
  3. Yogi Berra
  4. Thomas A. Edison
Grade 8 Industrialization
In the 1800s, which of the following was NOT a problem that most growing American cities faced?
  1. the spread of disease
  2. few job opportunities
  3. a lack of clean drinking water
  4. the threat of citywide fires
Grade 8 Industrialization
Organization that influences enough votes to control a local government:
  1. political machines
  2. social gospel
  3. Brown vs Board of Education
  4. Ellis island
Grade 8 Industrialization
Who might have complained about competition with the railroads?
  1. western farmers
  2. factory owners
  3. telegraph users
  4. canal investors
Grade 8 Industrialization
Who invented the steel plow?
  1. John Washington Carver
  2. Geronimo
  3. John Deere
  4. Cyprus McCormick
Grade 8 Industrialization
Who created the mechanical reaper?
  1. Cyprus McCormick
  2. John Deere
  3. John Washington Carver
  4. Joseph Glidden
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