1. Social Studies Online – The Way West-Chapter 12
Sunken Millions
Social Studies Online – The Way West-Chapter 12
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Level One
Level One

3. What are textile mills? A. stores B. factories C. technology
D. buildings
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4. What brought great changes in the way
people lived, worked and traveled
after the War of 1812?
B. Revolutionary War
A. Civil War
D. Gold Rush
C. Industrial Revolution
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5. Industrial Revolution
Who brought the
Industrial Revolution
to America?
A. Eli Whitney
George
Washington
C. Samuel
Slater
D. Thomas
Jefferson
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6. In what state was America’s
first factory built?
A. Rhode Island
B. California
C. Tennessee
D. New York
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7. What is mass production?
work of
craft workers
B. making one
thing at a time
C. doing
something
over and over
D. making large
amounts of
goods at one
time
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Level Two
Level Two

9. Who was Eli Whitney? A scientist B. A doctor C. An inventor
D. An engineer
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10. How did machines in early mills run? electrical B. solar power power
C. nuclear
power
D. water power
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11. coming to the United States
Why were immigrants
coming to the United States
in the mid-1800’s?
B. To take jobs
To be with
their families
C. To have
religious
freedom
D. To get
free land
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12. conditions did the most early workers have in America?
What kind of working
conditions did the most early
workers have in America?
A. Excellent
B Average.
C. Fair
D. Poor
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13. What is a canal? B. Human-made Assembly waterway line C. Machine
product
D.Transportation
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Level Three
Level Three

15. Why was the Erie Canal built?
To help transport
products between
Eastern and Western
United States
B. To connect the
North to the South
C. To transport
people to work
To give people
jobs
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16. how old was the United States?
On July 4,1826,
how old was the United States?
B. sixty years
A. fifty
C. seventy
D. eighty
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17. What took the place of flat-bottomed barges? A. steamboats C. canoes
B. kayaks
C. canoes
D. barges
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18. improved transportation
What inventions
improved transportation
in the early 1800’s?
Locomotives
and
airplanes
B.Flat-bottomed
barges and
locomotives
C. Steamboats
and
locomotives
Airplanes and
automobiles
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19. president of the United States?
Who was the seventh
president of the United States?
Andrew
Johnson
B. Andrew
Jackson
Alexander
Hamilton
Abraham
Lincoln
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Level Four
Level Four

21. What two states were formed after the Louisiana Purchase?
and Texas
Louisiana
and Florida
Louisiana
and Missouri
Louisiana
and Tennessee
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22. What is regional loyalty
called?
A. nationalism
B. sectionalism
C. segregation
D. federation
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23. What does secede mean? A. leave B. arrive C. threaten D. removal
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24. What was the bill that said all Indians had to leave their lands
and move west?
Trail of
Tears
B. Patriot Act
C. Civil War
Indian
Removal
Act
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25. What was the Manifest Destiny?
All people
are created
equal.
Certain future
of the U.S. to stretch
from Atlantic to
Pacific Oceans.
C. Removing
Indians from
their homeland
The abolition
of slavery $

26. You’ve recovered the sunken millions.
Congratulations!
You’ve recovered the sunken millions.