1. How did the percentage of Americans living on farms change between 1820 and 1850? It lowered as many Americans were sold into slavery.

It grew as more people came to America.

It stayed the same as people stopped coming to America.

It lowered as many Americans went to work in factories.

2. How did farm families get things that they needed, such as cloth, in the mid-1800s?

They bought them from the store.

They bought them from England.

They traded with Native Americans.

They made them from the land.

3. How were conditions best described for workers in mines, mills and factories prior to 1850?

paid well

dangerous

protected by strict laws

healthy

4. Which group of people was most likely to work for long hours with little pay in the mid-1800s?

young children and women

slaves

railroad tycoons

Native Americans