chapter 9

which of the follwoing statemnts 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.

which american principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the american industrial revolution

American ingenuity

Which of these did elite Americans 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

in the first half of the nineteenth century, american manufactuers main advatages over the british mills was that they had acess to which if the following

More natural resources

which of the following characteristics patterns of immigration into the US during the 1840s and 1850s

Most of the Irish who arrived in the United States were poverty-stricken peasants.

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

roman catholic immigration into the US in the 1840s had which of the following effects

Protestants' rejection of their new Catholic coworkers undercut trade unionism

which of the following replaced canals as the primary for of transportation in the US 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

As shown in the map above, the national system of roads and canals most closely linked which regions' economies together?

The East and the Midwest

which of the following connected the great lakes to the east coast and fueled the economic rise of new york city

The Erie Canal

which of the following developments most directly resulted from the changed wastson details in the excerpt

The Transportation Revolution

through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in effecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early ninetheenth century america

temperance

which of the following puritan ideas became a middle class conviction with a secular twist during industrialization in the early 1800s

the Protestant work ethinc

the developments desribed in the excerpt were most directly associated with which of the following occuring in the us at that time

the rise of the middle class

the expansion of the us trasportation network by 1837 as shown in the map above, benefited most from which of the following technological advances

the steam engine

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

Irish immigrants

which of the followng describes the new industrial system that developed in early ninteenth century america

It brought workers together under one roof in a factory

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 statements characterizes the emergence of the textile industry in the united states

Used textile machinery as their model. American textile producers built their own textile mills in New England and improved the British model

which of the following was an outcome of the american industrial revolution in the early nineteenth century

American businesses soon dominated in many European market

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

Cholera

the opening of canals and new roads in the US as depicted in the map above had the least impact on which of the following

European immigration to the United States

which of the following developments least contributed to the articulated in the petition above

Increased agricultural production resulting from technological inventions

During the 1840s and 1850s, which set of immigrant groups arrived in unprecedented numbers, resulting in a nativist backlash in popular culture?

Irish and Germans

which of the following statements best describes the waltham lowell system

It involved using mill girls from rural areas to work in textile factories

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 is properly matched with the item he invented?

John Deere - Steel plow

which of the following groups would most likely have supported the arguments in the petition above

Laissez-faire capitalists in the early 1900s

In the early 1800s, British textile manufacturers had which of the following advantages over their American competitors?

Large pool of cheap labor

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

Passing protective tariffs

the transformation that occured as american factories and farmers turned out more goods, and merchants and legislatures created faster cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following

The Market Revolution

which of the following was the major cause of the developments described in the excerpt

The Market Revolution

charles grandison finney found success as a young revivalist preacher in the 1820a by emphasizing which of the following issues in his sermons

The importance of personal conversion

By the 1830s, most laborers in the urban Northeast lived in which type of residences?

crowded boarding houses and tiny apartments

the sentiments epressed in the petition above can be understoof in the context of

debates over the federal government's role in the economy.

which concept promoted by the second great awakening reinforced its push for scietal reform

free moral agency

the majority of irish immigrants to the UUS in the 1840s and 1850s settked

in cities along the east coast.

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

irish immigrants

in the 1824 US supreme court case gibbons v ogden, the marshall court's decision

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