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8th grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 9

Factories & Reformers

Inventions, immigrants and reform

What your child practices

The Industrial Revolution, canals and telegraphs, immigration, and the abolition, women's rights and school reform movements before 1861.

Washington State Learning Standards learning standard: H2.6-8.7; H2.6-8.5; G2.6-8.7; E2.6-8.5 · technology, immigration and reform movements in the United States before the Civil War

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

    Steamboats changed river travel by…

    • Letting boats travel upstream easily
    • Making rivers flow backward
    • Stopping all river travel
    • Replacing roads

  2. Question 2

    Nativism was…

    • Love of nature
    • A type of factory
    • Hostility toward immigrants
    • A Native nation

  3. Question 3

    How did the Erie Canal affect trade?

    • Trade stopped
    • Moving goods became much cheaper and faster
    • Goods became more expensive
    • It only carried people

  4. Question 4

    Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and became…

    • President
    • A Confederate general
    • A British king
    • A famous speaker, writer and abolitionist

  5. Question 5

    The Seneca Falls Convention (1848) was the first major meeting for…

    • Ending the Civil War
    • Indian removal
    • Women's rights
    • Building canals

  6. Question 6

    The Second Great Awakening encouraged many people to…

    • Join reform movements like abolition and temperance
    • Build factories
    • Move to Europe
    • Stop going to church

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