The Industrial Revolution in the northern United States began in
By the mid-1800s, cities such as Buffalo and Cincinnati grew rapidly because
Which of the following occurred because of the railroad expansion across the United States?
Which technological advance of the 1840s cut in half the time it took to travel from New York to Great Britain?
How did Cyrus McCormick’s inventions affect the economy of the United States?
Which statement about the economy in the North during the mid-1800s is most accurate?
What was true of factory work in the early to mid-1800s?
In 1842, a Massachusetts court ruled that working people had the right to
In the mid-1800s, emancipated African Americans in the North were able to
The Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization was created in the 1840s with the goal of
What drove increased immigration to the United States between 1840 and 1860?
What did the nativists blame the immigrants for doing?
DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
“We the undersigned peaceable, industrious and hardworking men and women of Lowell, in view of our condition. . . by toiling [working] from 13 to 14 hours per day, . . . pray the legislature to institute [begin] a ten-hour working day in all of the factories of the state.” —John Quincy Adams Thayer, Sarah G. Bagley, James Carle, and 2,000 others, mostly women
This passage is from a petition submitted in 1845 to the Massachusetts legislature by factory workers regarding their working conditions. What can you infer from this excerpt?
This excerpt can be seen as one of the first steps toward establishing the American
“And whom does she [Europe] send? Her paupers [poor], her convicts, the outpourings of her almshouses [poorhouses] and jails. . . . [T]hey come to the land . . . ignorant of our customs, caring nothing for our laws, and strangers to all those essential qualities so necessary in self-government.” —Preamble and Constitution, Nativist Convention, Germantown, 1837
This excerpt is from a constitution adopted at the American Nativists convention in 1837. Which topic is the focus of this passage?
What is the best summary of this passage?
How did the cotton gin lead to increased cotton production in more places throughout the South?
While the Upper South produced more tobacco and vegetable crops, the Deep South produced more
Because cotton farming resulted in large profits for Southern planters,
By the mid-1800s, which product accounted for more than half of American exports?
Other than agriculture, one of the few industries to become strong in the South in the mid 1800s was
To ship their goods to market, most Southern farmers and manufacturers relied mainly on
White Southerners who owned small farms that produced crops for their own use and to trade with local merchants were called
Which of the following most impacted the profits of a plantation owner?
Many enslaved African Americans expressed their hopes and beliefs in religious folk songs called
What was the primary reason for slave codes?
What was the most common form of resistance practiced by enslaved African Americans?
By the mid-1800s, the largest cities in the South had developed along
DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question
“We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow, too hard for us to work in the field. . . The longest days were too short for him [Mr. Covey], and the shortest nights too long for him. I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me.” —Frederick Douglass, 1845
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery but escaped as a young man. In this excerpt from his autobiography, he describes his experiences with a farmer named Edward Covey. This passage from Douglass’s autobiography particularly highlights
Based on the passage, how did Douglass change after he began working for Covey?
“My wife was torn from her mother’s embrace in childhood, and taken to a distant part of the country. She had seen so many other children separated from their parents in this cruel manner, that the mere thought of her ever becoming the mother of a child, to linger out a miserable existence under the wretched system of American slavery, appeared to fill her very soul with horror.” —William Craft, 1860
Which of the following statements about conditions under slavery is best supported by this passage?
According to the passage, her experiences in enslavement made Ellen Craft
Which of the following trends led to the Second Great Awakening?
Why did Horace Mann establish a school for public school teachers?
In the early 1800s, some reformers opened schools and developed methods to teach people with
How did Dorothea Dix educate the public after she visited prisons in 1841?
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 brought people together to discuss
The writers of the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions modeled their work on the Declaration of Independence in order to
DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
“My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease [stop] not till death.” —from “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman, 1855
Based on these lines from Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself,” Whitman sees America as a place of
Based on these lines, it is most reasonable to conclude that Whitman
“She caught her child, and sprang down the steps towards [the river]. . . . With wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another and still another cake [a flat, compact object—here, a slab of ice in a river]; . . . Her shoes are gone—her stockings cut from her feet—while blood marked every step; but she saw nothing, felt nothing, till dimly, as in a dream, she saw the Ohio side, and a man helping her up the bank.” —from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
In this passage, Stowe describes the attempt of a young enslaved woman to escape to freedom while carrying her child. What can you infer about Stowe’s purpose for writing her novel?
How do you think readers reacted to the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Which method(s) of transportation helped to open the Midwest to settlement?
Which of the following inventors had the most immediate and broadest impact on agriculture?
How were children affected by the industrialization of the North?
Although slavery had largely disappeared from the North by the 1830s, many African Americans living in the North:
After the invention of the cotton gin, cotton production
Which of the following results were inspired by the Second Great Awakening?
In the 1800s, the most likely job for a woman was
Enslaved African Americans in the South