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The free enterprise system allows
a) entrepreneurs to own property and make a profit.
b) the government to own all property.
c) workers to be paid less.
d) transcendentalists to be weird.

Urbanization occurred in the North in the early 1800s because
a) farmers couldn't grow any crops.
b) new factories needed low-skilled workers.
c) many people moved out of the South.
d) children could attend school.

Improved transportation such as the railroad and steamboat helped
a) enslaved people return home faster.
b) develop a national market system in which people could buy goods from all over the country.
c) women gain high paying jobs in factories.
d) workers assemble products faster.

Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience later influenced
a) the Boston Tea Party organizers.
b) leaders of South Carolina's nullification movement.
c) Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.
d) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

A convention for women's rights, specifically suffrage, was held in 1848 in
a) New York City
b) Cleveland
c) Dallas
d) Seneca Falls

The South was agricultural and the North was more industrial because of
a) geographic differences (climate, soil).
b) a larger population in the North.
c) slavery was used in the South.
d) Northerners didn't allow slavery.

Some effects of the railroad included
a) the ability to move goods quickly on rivers in the Northeast.
b) moving goods quickly and more pollution in the West.
c) being able to communicate over long distances quickly.
d) making cloth quickly and pollution in the Northeast.

Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and the Underground Railroad were part of the
a) Temperance reform movement.
b) public school reform movement.
c) abolition movement.
d) Transcendentalist movement.

Leaves of Grass was a book of poetry written by Transcendentalist poet
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Sojourner Truth
c) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d) Walt Whitman

Slavery increased in the South during the early 1800s because
a) Northern textile mills demanded cheap cotton and the cotton gin allowed farmers to plant more cotton..
b) sugar plantations in the West Indies needed more laborers.
c) it was banned in Mexico and Canada.
d) women couldn't work in factories.

In response to urbanization, an anti-immigration political party formed called
a) the Democratic-Republicans
b) the Federalists
c) the Whigs
d) the Know-Nothings

Industrial production increased in the 1800s because of what new power source?
a) gasoline
b) electric
c) steam
d) solar

Plentiful natural resources, improved transportation, and a growing population led to what development in the 1800s?
a) industrialization
b) the Second Great Awakening
c) a new democratic government
d) war with Britain

Which workers benefitted from factory jobs in the North in the 1800s?
a) enslaved people
b) the Chinese
c) Germans looking for cheap land
d) women gained independence

The Temperance Movement's goal was to
a) stop the sale of illegal drugs.
b) stop grumpy people from fighting.
c) stop factories from producing textiles.
d) stop the sale and consumption of alcohol.

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