Give Me Liberty Quiz Ch. 9

In the period between 1820 and 1840, what two states combined saw the biggest spread (increase) in cotton cultivation?

Louisiana and Mississippi

Which of the following was not a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution?

NOT: America's failure to attract many newcomers from Europe Was: 1. the ongoing cycle of boom and bust 2. the rising inequalities of wealth 3. the increasing dependence of workers upon wage labor

Which was not an aspect of women's changing role in the context of the expansive and dynamic growth of the market economy in nineteenth-century America?

NOT: In the new, competitive, capitalist marketplace, women were to grow increasingly into captains of industry, becoming leaders of some of the nation's most important industries. Was: 1. Some women followed work as it moved from the household into factories. 2. Many women embraced the view that a woman's role was to shape a nurturing and loving private home environment shielded from the competitive tensions of the market economy. 3. A woman's role was often seen to be that of sustaining nonmarket values of love, friendship, and mutuality, providing men shelter from the competitive marketplace.

Which was not an element of the Second Great Awakening?

NOT: It emphasized predestination and the importance of each soul as being in the hands of an angry God. Was: 1.It democratized American Christianity. 2. Methodist and Baptist churches underwent explosive growth in membership. 3. It stressed the right of private judgment in spiritual matters and the possibility of salvation through faith and good works.

Which of the following was not a feature of westward expansion during the early- to mid-1800s?

NOT:Cities had no significant presence in the expanding West. Was: 1. Westward expansion breathed fresh life into the system of southern slavery. 2. Economically, the northern frontier was far more diversified than the southern frontier. 3. Western farmers focused increasingly on producing grains and livestock for urban markets in the East.

America's first successful factory was established in 1790 by

Samuel Slater at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following?

a transcendentalist

What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?

cotton gin

Slave coffles became a common sight in the Deep South between 1800 and 1860. Define "coffles."

groups chained to one another

Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to

railroads.

What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?

stimulated its growth

"Manifest Destiny" was

the idea that the United States had a God-given mission to expand westward.

During the first half of the 1800s, the U.S. economy experienced explosive growth in output and trade, and a rise in the standard of living for millions of Americans. This dynamic and expansive growth was, in part, a consequence of the rise of factories, a transportation revolution via canal and rail, a communications revolution spurred by invention of the telegraph, increasing agricultural yields and the mechanization of farm equipment, a rising prosperity for financial institutions, and larger cities. Historians call this new economy

the market revolution or market economy.

The "American system of manufactures"

was the mass production of interchangeable parts into rapidly built, standardized products.

Early New England textile mills relied largely on the labor of

women and children.

Democracy in America was written by

Alexis de Tocqueville.

The Second Great Awakening

a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, freedom was

an open-ended process of self-realization by which individuals could remake themselves.

Of the following projects, New York City's commercial ascent was owed chiefly to

the Erie Canal.

Which was not an innovation associated with the market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century?

NOT: telephones Was: 1. canals 2. railroads 3. steamboats

American industrialization first took off in

New England.

The 1825 completion of the 363-mile Erie Canal connected

The Great Lakes with New York City.