Chapter 8 Review Quiz- UAFS US History I FULL ONLINE Julie Oliver
(Q005) In what year was the first telegraph message transmitted?
1844
(Q008) Who invented a mechanical reaper to harvest grain?
Cyrus Hall McCormick
(Q016) "Clermonts" was the name given to the large horse-drawn wagons that helped to improve America's transportation system in the early nineteenth century.
F
(Q020) The Lowell system depended on a large, urban labor force.
F
(Q021) Many German immigrants left their homeland because of a potato famine in the 1840s.
F
(Q023) Most German immigrants in the 1850s were Jewish.
F
(Q025) "Nativism" is defined as hatred of other people on the basis of their skin color.
F
(Q027) In Commonwealth v. Hunt, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled all labor unions illegal.
F
(Q028) As a result of Elizabeth Blackwell excelling in her studies at Geneva Medical College, the school opened its doors to women.
F
(Q014) Which of the following accurately describes a difference between factory work and the work of self-employed artisans in the first half of the nineteenth century?
Factory workers did one specific task repetitively, while self-employed artisans completed all tasks involved in the creation of a product.
(Q010) Which of the following nationalities comprised the largest immigrant groups in America in the two decades before the Civil War?
Irish and German
(Q004) Which of following accurately describes the federal government's role in regards to transportation improvements in the first half of the nineteenth century?
It bought stock in and gave land grants to some transportation companies.
(Q012) Which of the following accurately describes Norwegian immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century?
Many settled in the Upper Midwest, where they established farms and new towns.
(Q015) Which of the following characterizes professional work in the first half of the nineteenth century up to the Civil War?
Professional jobs were growing in number, with little formal academic training required for many positions.
(Q017) The steamboat played a significant role in making farming a commercial activity.
T
(Q018) The perishability of tea leaves spurred the development of fast-sailing ships known as "clippers."
T
(Q019) The national telegraph system was the most important advance in communications in America prior to the Civil War.
T
(Q022) By the start of the Civil War, Catholicism was the largest religious denomination in the United States.
T
(Q024) The development of California attracted many Chinese immigrants who often did heavy construction work on railroads and bridges.
T
(Q026) The National Trades' Union was one of the first nationwide labor unions in the United States.
T
(Q006) Which of the following was a result of the invention of the cotton gin?
The concentration of slave populations shifted to cotton-growing states.
(Q011) Which of the following accurately describes Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century?
They often worked in dangerous and/or low-paying jobs and were viewed with contempt by established Americans.
(Q009) Which of the following was NOT an agricultural invention made before 1850?
artificial fertilizer
(Q013) The Know-Nothing Party was built on
nativism
(Q002) Which of the following did the Erie Canal connect?
the Great Lakes and the Midwest to New York City
(Q003) Which of the following was a result of the proliferation of railroads during the second quarter of the nineteenth century?
the emergence of new western settlements
(Q001) Nineteenth-century developments in transportation in the United States occurred in which order?
turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads
(Q007) By 1860, where was the majority of the nation's population located?
west of the Appalachian Mountains
