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US History Standards 7 and 8 Worksheet

Use chapters 7, 8, and 9 from the textbook to find the answers.

  1. How did the Industrial Revolution change the way people worked?
  2. How did geography spur industrialization in the Northeast?
  3. Why did northern industrialists favor protective tariffs?
  4. How did the cotton gin change agriculture in the South?
  5. Why was the ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland significant?
  6. What drew a line north of which any new states would be free states and south of which any new states would be slave states?
  7. What was the most far-reaching development in the transportation revolution of the early 1800s?
  8. Which American industry first used machines to do work previously done by hand?
  9. Industrialization in the North caused what to emerge?
  10. What contributed to the growth of “King Cotton”?
  11. Supporters insisted that a national bank would do what?
  12. Under John Marshall, the Supreme Court did what?
  13. The crisis over the Missouri Compromise exposed what?
  14. Why did the United States government remove Native Americans from the Southeast in the 1830s?
  15. Who tended to favor tariffs?
  16. In 1833, South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if what happened?
  17. The Whig Party formed in response to whom?
  18. Revivalist preachers are best described as?
  19. Supporters of the public school movement made arguments based on what?
  20. The temperance movement found its greatest success when it promoted what?
  21. The most successful Mormon settlements were in what state?
  22. In the 1800s, laws were most likely to favor members of which religion?
  23. Transcendentalists were known for what?
  24. What did the concept of civil disobedience mean to Thoreau?
  25. Reformers worked to change schools by do what?
  26. What does the word penitentiary mean?
  27. Which reformer is associated with prison issues?
  28. Which movement was based on the idea of moderation?
  29. How would you best describe daily life for enslaved persons?
  30. The American Colonization Society encouraged free blacks to move where?
  31. The women’s movement began when women saw parallels between their situation and that of whom?
  32. In the 1840s and 1850s, Mormons led by Brigham Young settled where?
  33. Who was President of the United States during the Mexican-American War?
  34. The Mormons established a new colony called what?
  35. What were the conditions placed on American settlers moving to Texas?
  36. What Texan leader defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto?
  37. In the 1820s, Mexico invited American settlers where?
  38. In March 1836, General Santa Anna attacked where?
  39. Winfield Scott faced bitter resistance from the Mexican army at what battle?
  40. At the end of the Mexican-American War, the United States paid $18 million and left Mexico City in return for what?
  41. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase increased the area of the United States by how much?
  42. During the California Gold Rush, about 25,000 laborers migrated to California from where?
  43. People who believed in Manifest Destiny were known as what?