8th grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 10
Industry & Reform
Mills, immigrants and reformers
What your child practices
New technologies and factories, regional economies and slavery, immigration, and the abolition, women's rights and other reform movements before 1861, including resistance to slavery.
Oregon State Standards learning standard: 8.H.CE.5; 8.H.CE.6; 8.H.CC.4; 8.E.ST.9; 8.E.MI.7 · technology and the expansion of slavery, reform movements, resistance to enslavement, regional specialization and technology's effect on labour
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1793)…
- made cleaning cotton faster and led to more slavery
- made cloth by itself
- ended slavery
made cleaning cotton faster and led to more slavery
Hint: Cotton became hugely profitable.
Question 2
Steamboats made it easier to…
- fly
- cross deserts
- travel upstream on rivers
travel upstream on rivers
Hint: Steam engines beat the current.
Question 3
Interchangeable parts are…
- parts that never wear out
- identical parts that can replace each other
- parts made by hand to fit one machine
identical parts that can replace each other
Hint: They made factory production faster.
Question 4
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 called for…
- the end of trade
- women's rights, including the right to vote
- a new capital
women's rights, including the right to vote
Hint: Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped lead it.
Question 5
Nat Turner led a revolt of enslaved people in Virginia in…
- 1831
- 1776
- 1865
1831
Hint: It led to harsher slave laws.
Question 6
'Cotton is King' meant Southern leaders believed…
- cotton was a ruler
- the world depended on their cotton
- cotton should be banned
the world depended on their cotton
Hint: They thought Britain would back them.