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8th grade · Social Studies · Unit 6 of 9

Factories & Reformers

Inventions, immigrants and reform

What your child practices

The Industrial Revolution in the North, canals, roads and railroads, immigration, public schools, and the abolition and women's rights movements before 1861.

California Content Standards learning standard: 8.6.1; 8.6.2; 8.6.3; 8.6.5; 8.6.6 · industrialization, transportation networks, immigration, the American education system and the women's suffrage movement

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Horace Mann worked to reform…

    • Prisons in Europe
    • Public schools
    • Railroads
    • The army

  2. Question 2

    Horace Mann worked to build…

    • private castles
    • railroads
    • free public schools for all children
    • canals only

  3. Question 3

    The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 called for…

    • a new king
    • ending all schools
    • closing factories
    • equal rights for women, including the vote

  4. Question 4

    Sojourner Truth was…

    • A Confederate spy
    • A railroad builder
    • A formerly enslaved woman who spoke for abolition and women's rights
    • A Supreme Court justice

  5. Question 5

    Harriet Tubman is known for…

    • Writing the Constitution
    • Inventing the telegraph
    • Escaping slavery and guiding many others to freedom on the Underground Railroad
    • Leading the Trail of Tears

  6. Question 6

    The Underground Railroad was…

    • A secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom
    • A subway
    • A train under the Rockies
    • A railroad company

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