APUSH Chapter 9

Which of the following was an outcome of the American Industrial Revolution in the early nineteenth century

American businesses soon dominated in many European markets

Which American principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the American Industrial Revolution

American ingenuity

How did the spread of industrialization in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s affect skilled artisans

As machines changed the nature of their work, shoemakers, hatters, printers, furniture makers, and weavers faced declining income, job insecurity, and loss of status

To which of the following causes did Isabella Graham and Joanna Bethune contribute in the early nineteenth century

Assisting widows and orphans

Which of these factors was the critical stimulus for the growth of domestic American markets in the first half of the nineteenth century

Better transportation networks

How did middle-class reformers attempt to overcome disorder and lawlessness among urban wage earners in early nineteenth-century America

By forming regional and national organizations to institutionalize charity and combat crime systematically

How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century

By passing protective tarrifs

Between 1820 and 1840, the economic conditions for casual day laborers in American cities changed in which of the following days

Casual day laborers bore the burnt of unemployment during business depressions

What killed thousands of poor immigrants in St. Louis and New York City in the summer of 1849

Cholera

Which of these did elite American embrace after the Industrial Revolution in order to set themselves apart from other groups of Americans

Conspicuous displays of their wealth through clothing and housing

Which of these inventions spurred the growth of agriculture in the Midwest in the 1840s

Corn feeding for livestock

Which of the following describes German immigrants who settled in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s

Germans were the second largest immigrant group and many settled in the midwestern states

How did Thomas Jefferson respond to the development of American manufacturing by the 1820s

He praised industrialization and expressed pride in American progress in manufacturing

Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America

Irish immigrants

Who replaced the Lowell Mils workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved

Irish immigrants

Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America

It brought workers together under one roof in a factory

Which of the following statements describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system

Its creators recruited farm girls and women to work in factories

Which inventor properly matched with the item he invented

John Deere - Steel plow

The most critical contribution American mechanics made to the Industrial Revolution was the development of which of the following

Machine tools

Which of the following statements describes workers' approach to alcohol consumption in the 1820s

Many workers used alcohol as an escape from the routine of work but also drank in their workplaces

In the first half of the nineteenth century, American manufacturers' main advantage over the British mills was that they had access to which of the following

More natural resources

For which of the following reasons did New York's state government fund the building of the Erie Canal in 1817

New Yorkers sought to link the Hudson River with the Great Lakes

Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the United States in the nineteenth century

Railroads

Who was the English immigrant who secretly brought the design of the most advanced British machinery for spinning cotton to America in 1789

Samuel Slater

Which of the following was an outcome of the division of labor in early American shoe factories

Show production increased

By the 1830s, coal and metal manufacturers increasingly used which of the following to run machinery

Steam engines

Through which of the following sources did the U.S. Treasury raise most of its revenue during the first half of the 1800s

Tariffs on imported goods

Through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in effecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early nineteenth-century America

Temperance

The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following

The Market Revolution

Which of the following was the message of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, published in full in 1818

The suggestion that an industrious man could become wealthy

Which of the following factors explained the rapid growth of western cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New Orleans

Their role in transportation networks

Which of these describes the experiences of the young women who worked in the New England textile mills in the 1820s and 1830s

They were able to save their wages for later use or to help out their families

Why did Congress approve funds for the construction of the National Road in 1806

To link midwestern settlers to seaboard states

Which of the following was an outcome of the rural outwork system of manufacturing in the 1820's and 1830's

Workers' wages decreased

The construction of the Erie Canal, the first great engineering project in American history, was successful for which of the following reasons

it increased the speed of shipping and travel while greatly lowering its cost

In the 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons vs. Ogden, the Marshall Court's decision

overturned New York law that granted a monopoly on steamboat travel into New York City

During the 1840s and 1850s, Roman Catholic churches in the United States were known for

providing community services and a sense of group identity for most Irish and many German immigrants

Which of the following Puritan ideas became a middle-class conviction with the secular twist during industrialization in the early 1800s

the Protestant work ethinc

The concept that the price of a product should reflect the work required to make it is known as

the labor theory of value

Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of the textile industry in the United States

using British textile machinery as their model, American textile producers built their own textile mills in New England and ultimately improved on British technology