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Social Studies, History
8th
grade
Industrialization and Reform Corrections
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- 1. Multiple Choice
How did Dorothea Dix's speech to the state legislature help to reform prisons?
Punishments for mentally ill criminals were reduced
Treatments for many mental diseases were developed
Hospitals were persuaded to release mentally ill patients
Politicians were convinced to create separate facilities for mental patients
- 2. Multiple Choice
The abolitionist movement evolved out of the-
Great Awakening
Industrial Revolution
Harlem Renaissance
Era of Good Feeling
- 3. Multiple Choice
To which of the following would abolitionists have objected the most?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Tubman's effort
Fugitive slave laws
Missouri Compromise
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which factor best completes this diagram?
New transportation systems
Increased government regulation
A decline in agricultural production
The growth of labor unions
- 5. Multiple Choice
The free-enterprise economic system of the Unites States encourages-
income equality
market competition
welfare protections
government regulation
- 6. Multiple Choice
These factors played a major role in-
Agricultural growth
Militarization
Westward growth
Urbanization
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about the Lowell System is correct?
It was utilized by the federal; government to fill vacant government positions
It was a labor program utilized by textile mills
It was essential to railroad construction in the West
It represented an attempt to extend the right to vote to all white male citizens
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following completes the diagram?
Territorial expansion
Expanded transportation
Age of industrialization
Innovations in technology
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which factor accounts for this trend?
The Second Great Awakening motivated people to join reform movements
Manifest Destiny inspired many people to become homesteaders
Jacksonian Democracy allowed more people to vote in elections
The Industrial Revolution encouraged people to pursue jobs in cities
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