Chapter 9 US History
(Q064) Not until after the Civil War could married women legally control the wages they earned.
True
(Q075) With the accessibility to timepieces in the market revolution, factory work started being measured "by the clock," while farm life continued to be regulated by the rhythms of the seasons.
True
(Q038) Immigrants from which of the following nations were easily absorbed in the United States during the early 1800s?
England
(Q062) Because of the expansive growth in the U.S. economy associated with the market revolution, skilled free black workers found their status and incomes rising.
False
(Q069) Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of Walden.
False
(Q073) Most Americans moved west as lone pioneers.
False
(Q028) By 1840, which two states combined had the highest concentration of cotton cultivation?
Louisiana and Mississippi
(Q036) This religion started after its leader claimed to have been led by an angel to a set of golden plates covered with strange writing, which he translated and later published.
Mormonism
(Q015) America's first successful factory was established in 1790 by
Samuel Slater at Pawtucket, Rhode Island
(Q031) Which of the following is a correct pairing of inventor and invention?
Steel Plow and John Deere
(Q016) What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?
Stimulated its growth
(Q048) Free blacks were largely denied access to the new economic opportunities generated by the market revolution.
True
(Q050) The economic transformation of the nineteenth-century United States produced an explosive growth in the nation's output and trade and a rise in the general standard of living.
True
(Q054) The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the Old Northwest.
True
(Q058) In Thoreau's view, the market revolution degraded both people's values and the natural environment.
True
(Q059) The common nineteenth-century view was that men are naturally aggressive, rational, and domineering, while women are naturally nurturing, selfless, and ruled by emotions.
True
(Q018) Early U.S. textile mills relied largely on the labor of
Women and Children
(Q061) In the nineteenth century, barred from schools and other facilities, free black Americans constructed their own institutional life, centered on churches, and educational and mutual aid societies.
True
(Q027) Which of the following destroyed Henry David Thoreau's commune with nature?
A train
(Q024) Which of the following was part of women's changing role in the first half of nineteenth-century America?
A woman's role was to shelter her husband from a competitive marketplace.
(Q032) Which city was known as "Porkopolis" after its slaughterhouse district?
Cincinnati
(Q030) The linchpin of southern development and the South's most important export was
Cotton
(Q014) Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to
Railroads
(Q004) The device invented by Samuel Morse in the 1830s that sent messages over electrical wires was called the
Telegraph
(Q002) Of the following projects, New York City's commercial ascent was owed chiefly to
The Erie Canal
(Q035) Anabaptists rejected
The practice of infant baptism
(Q021) Between the 1780s and 1824, the nation's population:
Tripled
(Q042) Expanding networks of toll roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads were essential to the takeoff of the market revolution.
True
(Q043) The largest group of immigrants to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s came from Ireland, which was then in the throes of the great potato famine.
True
(Q012) What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?
cotton gin
