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What distinguished the textile factories of Lowell, Massachusetts, founded by the Boston Associates in the 1820s?
Every step of their production was mechanized. In the experiment at Waltham, the Lowell mills ran on the principle of having every production step mechanized to achieve efficiency.
Why did local authorities arrest Joseph Smith in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, in the mid-1830s?
He claimed to have received revelations that sanctioned polygamy. After Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, claimed to have received revelations that sanctioned polygamy, local authorities arrested him and his brother, and a mob lynched them.
Where did the revivals that were part of the Second Great Awakening begin in 1801?
In Cane Ridge, Kentucky The second wave of religious revivals began in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1801, took root across the South, and then spread northward.
Why did New England farm girls of the early nineteenth century consider work in factory towns like Lowell an adventure?
In Cane Ridge, Kentucky The second wave of religious revivals began in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1801, took root across the South, and then spread northward.
Which of the following were part of the planned community of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1820s?
Boardinghouses The textile factories of Lowell were built as part of a planned community that included boardinghouses for young female factory workers.
What did the artists of the Hudson River School have in common with the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Both emphasized the power of nature in their work Transcendentalist writer Emerson developed the idea of a Universal Being who was revealed in nature, while the Hudson River School artists, such as Thomas Cole, also stressed the grandeur of the natural world in their paintings of landscapes, mountains, waterfalls, and vistas
What did the artists of the Hudson River School have in common with the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Both emphasized the power of nature in their work Transcendentalist writer Emerson developed the idea of a Universal Being who was revealed in nature, while the Hudson River School artists, such as Thomas Cole, also stressed the grandeur of the natural world in their paintings of landscapes, mountains, waterfalls, and vistas.
How did middle-class men contribute to the consumer economy in the first half of the nineteenth century in the United States?
By making investments in commercial ventures Middle-class men invested in industrial and commercial ventures that helped develop the consumer economy.
How did the new type of cheap tabloid newspapers in the United States woo readers in the 1840s?
By publishing sensational stories of sex and crime Improvements in printing created vastly more and cheaper newspapers, and these tabloids wooed readers by publishing sensational stories of crime, sex, and scandal.
Why were unmarried and recently married young people particularly drawn to cities in the 1840s and 1850s?
City life offered jobs and excitement. (The growing cities provided economic opportunity and also offered the lure of entertainments such as the theater and museums.)
Why did urban violence in the United States increase in the 1840s?
Economic competition for scarce resources increased urban violence. Violence in American cities increased as economic competition intensified in the 1840s. Native-born white workers and employers pushed Irish immigrants to the bottom of the economic ladder, where they competed with African Americans.
Why did many abolitionist leaders not share Amy Post's enthusiastic support for the publication and distribution of Frederick Douglass's North Star?
Many abolitionists still believed blacks were inferior to whites. Although all abolitionists opposed slavery, many still believed that blacks were inferior to whites and the abolitionists did not want to encourage African Americans to participate in their cause.
Whom did the Free-Soil Party nominate as its presidential candidate in 1848?
Martin Van Buren The Free-Soil Party, which focused less on the moral wrongs of slavery than on the benefits of keeping western territories free for northern whites, nominated the former Democrat Van Buren in 1848.
What effect did the development of new technology in the 1830s and 1840s have on factory workers?
New technology displaced workers in some industries but created new industries and new jobs for others. Technological innovation in response to the panic of 1837 harmed workers in some industries but created new opportunities in others. New machines, for example, required engineers to design them and mechanics to build and repair them.
Where was the center of African American evangelical revivals?
Philadelphia African Americans in Philadelphia built fifteen new churches between 1799 and 1830 alone.
What drove immigration to the United States from Germany and Scandinavia in the 1840s and 1850s?
Repressive landlords Economic exploitation and lack of economic opportunities due to oppressive landlords drove many Scandinavians and Germans to leave for the United States.
Why were skilled workers offended by the factory work organization of the 1830s?
Repressive landlords Economic exploitation and lack of economic opportunities due to oppressive landlords drove many Scandinavians and Germans to leave for the United States.
Why did news travel more quickly in the United States in the 1840s?
Telegraph lines allowed for far quicker information transfers. After Congress funded the first telegraph line, connecting Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, information began to flow more quickly than before.
Why did the residents of Rochester feel increasingly concerned about their town in the late 1820s?
The boomtown growth raised fears about the rising tide of sin. In the late 1820s, boomtown growth in Rochester and other localities in western New York along the Erie Canal aroused deep concerns about the growing tide of sin.
According to Mathew Carey, which of the following factors is responsible for the plight of poor women?
The low pay offered by employers Carey condemns employers who do not pay good wages. "All honourable members of society, male and female," he writes, "ought to unite in denouncing those who 'grind the faces of the poor.'"
What distinguished the textile factories of Lowell, Massachusetts, founded by the Boston Associates in the 1820s? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
Their work became less visible. Housework became more invisible as it focused inward toward the family rather than toward shared production of goods for the market economy.
How did the new type of cheap tabloid newspapers in the United States woo readers in the 1840s?
They believed that formation of this party meant participating in a proslavery government. Many Garrisonians were appalled because they understood that the formation of a political party would mean participating in what was, in essence, a proslavery and thus immoral government.
How did more affluent residents of American urban centers distance themselves from the poor crowds of inner cities after the 1830s?
They moved away from city centers. Innovations in transportation in the 1830s made it possible for more affluent residents to distance themselves from crowded inner cities. The first horse-drawn streetcar line in New York City in 1832, for example, allowed wealthy families to move away from the urban center.
What distinguished products—like shoes—made in factories after the 1820s from those made in the old craft tradition?
They were cheaper. Factory-made goods were cheaper than handcrafted goods.
How did the ideas of French socialist Charles Fourier influence American utopian societies in the 1840s?
They were treated as dependents rather than independent craftsmen. Skilled workers were offended by the new regime, which treated them as wage-earning dependents rather than as independent craftsmen. As the process of deskilling transformed shoemaking, printing, tailoring, and other trades, laboring men fought to maintain their status.
Why were skilled workers offended by the factory work organization of the 1830s?
They were treated as dependents rather than independent craftsmen. Skilled workers were offended by the new regime, which treated them as wage-earning dependents rather than as independent craftsmen. As the process of deskilling transformed shoemaking, printing, tailoring, and other trades, laboring men fought to maintain their status.
Why did farm families in early-nineteenth-century New England send their daughters to work in textile factories?
To earn cash for the growing market economy Farm families needed more cash because of the growing market economy, and textile work allowed young women to contribute to their families' finances.
According to the 1850 image of the Drunkard's Home, alcohol is especially damaging to which group?
Working-class families The family shown is depicted as working class. Temperance societies were keen to reveal the damage alcohol wrought on the families of workingmen who drank.
The efforts of moral reformers against prostitution in the 1840s included
petitions for harsh punishments of men. Reformers recognized that the customers of brothels as well as prostitutes needed to fear the law.
To convince New England farm parents to let their daughters work at the Lowell factories, recruiting agents had to
promise tight oversight over the daughters. Agents had to reassure parents that their daughters would be watched by managers and foremen as well as landladies in boardinghouses.
