US History Chapter 8
The Knowing Party -------declared that forming a trade union was not illegal.
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Because they too had suffered discrimination, Irish immigrants tended to be sympathetic to blacks.
False
Before 1845, steamboats were used more for transportation on the ocean than on internal waterways.
False
By the 1850s, train traveled an average of forty miles an hour.
False
Irish immigrants to the United States tended to join the Republican Party.
False
The United States had caught up with Britain's textile production by 1815
False
The greatest proportional influx of immigrants in the history of the United States came in the 1820s.
False
By the 1830s, most western products reached New Orleans by:
Flat boats
Heinrich Steinweg
Immigrant piano maker
Robert Fulton
Improved the steamboat
Cyrus McCormick
Invented the primitive grain reaper
Samuel F.B. Morse
Invented the telegraph
Of all the immigrant groups that came to America in the first half of the nineteenth century, which was the least tolerant of enslaved African-Americans?
Irish
The largest group of immigrants living in America in 1860 was ----
Irish
These two events encouraged rapid growth in American manufacturing ----------
Jefferson's Embargo and the War of 1812
By 1860, what had become the largest city, as its population surpassed 1 million?
NYC
The "------" was named for the low cost of newspapers.
Penny Press
----- brought cheaper and faster two way traffic to the Mississippi Valley
Steamboats
A market-based economy frequently produces boom-and-bust cycles
True
Chinese immigrants to the United States often did the heavy work convention.
True
Despite the rapid progress in education and professional activities, women failed to gain a significant foothold in the public sphere.
True
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin on a plantation in Georgia
True
Most of the growth of the Catholic Church in America in the mid-nineteenth century can be attributed to immigration from Ireland.
True
One advantage of New England for manufacturing was river system providing power and transportation.
True
The American party was based on nativism.
True
Theatergoers in the antebellum period often hurled insults and objects at performers.
True
By 1860, one would most likely encounter Norwegian and Swedish immigrants in:
Wisconsin and Minnesota
The ----- made possible efficient separation of seeds from fiber
cotton gin
The first American factories produced -----
cotton textiles
Anti-Irish prejudice was especially based upon:
fear of growing Catholic influence
Eli Whitney
invented the cotton gin
Elias Howe
invented the sewing machine
The Germans who came to the United States settled ----
mainly in rural areas
The settlement of the west was accelerated by Cyrus McCormick's invention of the ----
mechanical reaper
Charles Goodyear
patented a process for vulcanizing rubber
The advantage clipper ships had over traditional merchant vessels was their:
speed
The major impetus for the huge Irish immigration to the United States after 1845 was -----
the Potato Famine
Stephen Foster
wrote "Oh! Susanna"
