Settling the West

Question 1

How did the assembly line process used in factories change the nature of work?Check all of the boxes that apply.

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Factories required many workers.; Factory owners hired unskilled laborers.

Question 2

Most immigrants to the US in the 1830s came from Germany and .

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Ireland

Question 3

How did corporations help to spread industrialization in the North?

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allowed investors to build factories that hired many workers and used new technologies

Question 4

A new invention, the cotton , transformed the Southern agricultural industry.

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gin

Question 5

Choose the right words to complete the sentence.The cotton gin the demand for cotton.The growth of the cotton industry the demand for enslaved labor.

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increased

Question 6

This image is from an envelope in the mid-1800s. Study it, and then answer the question. What does it say about cotton?

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It ruled the Southern economy.

Question 7

How many white Southerners owned enslaved persons in 1830?

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25%

Question 8

How did slavery support the class structure in the South?

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Slaveholders enjoyed a privileged lifestyle because of slavery.

Question 9

How many white Southerners defended slavery?

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most

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