AP History Unit 7

Which of the following best explains how the developments represented in the above illustrations can be viewed as a turning point in U.S. social and economic history?

A shift from the self-sustaining economic family unit to income-earning outside of the home or family sphere began to occur.

Which development was mostly responsible for making possible the system depicted in the illustrations?

Agricultural mechanization resulted in a native workforce willing to work in factories.

Which of the following is true of canal and turnpike transportation?

Canal boats could haul vastly larger loads than could turnpike transports.

The "Know-Nothing" movement was partially directed at reducing the influence of ________.

Catholics

Which of these was true of American cities in 1860?

Chicago and other inland cities grew, sometimes at the expense of cities on the rivers.

Which of these is NOT true of the early telegraph?

Competition from the Pony Express almost destroyed the telegraph early on.

What did factories replace in the UNITED STATES as the main producers of goods?

Craft shops

Which of these was true of early labor organizations?

Craft societies often became labor unions.

Which of these was NOT true of leisure in the first half of the 1800s?

Everyone had significant amounts of leisure time in this country.

Which of these did NOT happen in the Old Northwest in the 1840s and 1850s?

Fishing and hunting died out entirely in this region.

What did skilled pre-industrial artisans value most in their "moral community" perspective?

Independence and stability

Which of the following statements about the U.S. economy in the early 1800s is most clearly supported by the illustrations?

Investment in transportation and infrastructure set the stage for U.S. industrialization.

How did the Lowell system recruit workers in the 1820s and early 1830s?

It employed single women until they married.

Which person helped farmers most during planting season?

John Deere

What strengthened the factory system most?

Machine tools

Which of these invention's helped Midwestern farmers during harvest time?

McCormick's reaper

Which of these was NOT true of immigration to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s?

More immigrants settled in the southern states than in the north.

Which of these is accurate about the reaction to the immigrants of the 1840s and 1850s?

Nativists grew concerned for social, economic, political, and religious reasons.

The growth of commerce and industry allowed more Americans the chance to become prosperous without which traditional means of wealth?

Owning land

Which of these is true of population and settlement trends?

Several cities away from the East Coast started to become large because they provided services for farmers.

Which area of the nation produced the most wheat and cattle by 1860?

The Midwest

Which of these was NOT true of the rise of industry by 1860?

The vulcanization of rubber by B.F. Goodrich helped make it useful for products and also in industry.

Which of the following best describes how the system represented in the above illustrations most directly affected women in the early 1800s?

Young women worked outside the home in larger numbers than ever before.

The Erie Canal was ________.

a tremendous financial success

Prior to 1860, the social institution that most bound together rural Americans was the ________.

church

Farmers in the antebellum United States often ________.

found occasions to get together with other people

Compared to Irish immigrants, German immigrants to the United States before 1860 ________.

generally arrived with more money

After 1840, working conditions ________.

got louder, dirtier, and more dangerous

Between 1820 and 1840, the population of the United States ________.

grew rapidly, in part due to improved public health

Compared to 1800, urban American families in 1860 ________.

had a declining birth rate

The commercial and industrial growth in the United States prior to 1860 resulted in ________.

increasing gaps in income between the rich and poor

All of these are true of the Erie Canal its consequences EXCEPT ________.

it was financed mostly by the federal government as part of the American System

One of the important middle-class trends of these times was ________.

more men started "going to work"

Early railroads in the United States ________.

required enormous amounts of money to build and often received government help

For most American farmers, the 1840s and 1850s were a period of ________.

rising prosperity due to increased world demand for farm products

Before the 1830s, American corporations could be chartered only by ________.

state legislatures

In the first half of the 1800s, ________.

the gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew much wider

One important aid to large business in the 1820s and 1830s was ________.

the growing popularity of general incorporation laws

As the factory system progressed into the 1840s, ________.

the owners increasingly used immigrants as their labor force

Between 1790 and 1840, ________.

the population of the United States more than quadrupled in size

During the 1840s, advances in journalism included all of the following EXCEPT ________.

the technological means to reproduce photographs in newsprint

Information by 1850 ________.

was less expensive than ever thanks to steam-powered rotary presses

By 1860, as a result of the social expectations expressed in the "cult of domesticity," ________.

women became increasingly isolated from the public world

Because of the "cult of domesticity," ________.

women contributed less to the income of the household

When the Lowell factory system began, ________.

workers were fairly well paid and lived in supervised dormitories