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Grade 8 Industrialization
Traveling by boat from New York City to Lake Erie was made possible by what new transportation route?
  1. Erie Canal
  2. Pony Express
  3. Lake Michigan
  4. Great Wagon Road
Grade 8 Industrialization
The term mass production is best defined as the
  1. rapid manufacture of a large number of identical objects.
  2. ability to carefully produce intricate objects one at a time.
  3. tendency to create poor quality goods because of high demand.
  4. practice of making only products that would have many buyers.
Grade 8 Industrialization
Who is credited with building the first commercially successful steamboat?
  1. John Fitch
  2. Robert Fulton
  3. Samuel Slater
  4. Matthew Perry
Grade 8 Industrialization
Why did people in the North and the South have such different views about slavery?
  1. The South's economy depended on slavery, while the economy of the North did not.
  2. Most people in the South believed slavery was morally wrong.
  3. Northerners thought slavery was destroying the economy.
  4. Southerners believed slavery should be eliminated gradually, while northerners thought it should be abolished all at once.
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
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

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The leading figure in the early years of the steel industry was                   .
  1. John D Rockefeller
  2. Andrew Jackson
  3. Andrew Carnegie
  4. Richie Carnegie
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Horizontal integration is the combining of competing businesses into one firm.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 8 Industrialization
Which was the most important effect of the Bessemer process?
  1. It allowed the production of more steel.
  2. It produced better steel.
  3. It made steel cheaper.
  4. It allowed factory production of steel.
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Types of factories with poor working conditions were called:
  1. sweatshops
  2. hazard shops
  3. death traps
Grade 8 Industrialization
Through what natural passageway in the Appalachian Mountains did the Wilderness Road lead?
  1. Rocky Mountain Pass
  2. Foothills
  3. Cumberland Gap
  4. Missouri Gap
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Acquiring most or all of the equipment and services needed for a business is                       .
  1. vertical integration
  2. horizontal integration
  3. factors of production
  4. diagonal integration
Grade 8 Industrialization
What allowed timber mills to operate 24/7?
  1. Sewage
  2. Labor Unions
  3. Lindsey Wagons
  4. Electricity
Grade 8 Industrialization
Which invention improved travel by water in the early 1800s?
  1. turnpike
  2. spinning jenny
  3. water frame
  4. steamboat
Grade 8 Industrialization
The French term "laissez-faire" refers to
  1. a fair and just punishment in a criminal trial.
  2. an economic policy where the government does not interfere with business.
  3. consistent, strong government regulation of business.
  4. a type of barter system where people exchange goods for services.
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The name of the leading oil company in the early years was                       .
  1. Pittsburgh Oil Company
  2. Standard Oil Company
  3. Rockefeller Oil
  4. The Petroleum Pit
Grade 8 Industrialization
Besides the cotton gin, which of the following items did Eli Whitney also invent?
  1. interchangeable parts
  2. telegraph
  3. steam engine
  4. musket
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As industry grew, so did American Cities. This movement of the population from farms to cities was known as?
  1. urbanization
  2. pasteurization
  3. homogenization
  4. alien nation
Grade 8 Industrialization
An early slogan of labor reformers was
  1. Work hard, work long, and our reward will be more of the good life.
  2. Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, and eight hours for God and the brethren.
  3. All for the factory, all for the boss, all for the success of American business.
  4. Right and proper, right and good, our betters know what is best for us.
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