APUSH Ch 9

Which of these factors was the critical stimulus for the growth of domestic American markets the first half of the nineteenth century?

Better transportation networks

How did the appearance of canals and steamboats in the United States affect the flow of goods and information during the 1830s?

By 1840, farmers could to ship ten times as much flour as they could in 1835.

By the 1830s, most laborers in the urban Northeast lived in which type of residences?

Crowded boardinghouses and tiny apartments

Roman Catholic immigration into the United States in the 1840s had which of the following effects?

Protestants' rejection of their new Catholic coworkers undercut trade unionism

Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the United States in the nineteenth century?

Railroads

Who was the English immigrant who secretly brought the design of the most advanced British machinery for spinning cotton to America in 1789?

Samuel Slater

The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following?

The Consumer Revolution

As shown in the map above, the national system of roads and canals most closely linked which regions' economies together?

The East and the Midwest

Which of the following factors explained the rapid growth of westem cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New Orleans?

Their location on the fall line

Which of the following was an outcome of the American Industrial Revolution in the early nineteenth century?

They built a robust workers' culture that preserved their autonomy outside work.

Who replaced the Lowell Mill workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved?

Irish immigrants

Which of the following statements describes workers' approach to alcohol consumption in the 1820s?

Many workers used alcohol as an escape from the routine of work but also drank in their workplaces.

Which of the following characterizes pattems of immigration into the United States during the 1840s and 1850s?

Most of the Irish who arrived in the United States were poverty-stricken peasants.

Which of the following antebellum-era historical developments was least likely to have spurred efforts such as those described in the excerpt above?

The progress toward a unified new national culture

The efforts described in the excerpt above can best be understood in the context of

attempts to match democratic political ideals with social realities.

The sentiments expressed in the petition above can best be understood in the context of

organizations debates over the federal government's role in the economy.

The ideas expressed in the excerpt above can best be understood in the context of debates over

the relationship between the federal government and state governments.

Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth- century America?

It brought workers together under one roof in a factory.

Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of the textile industry in the United States?

Using British textile machinery as their model, American textile producers built their own textile mills in New England and ultimately improved British technology.

How did the spread of industrialization in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s affect skilled artisans?

As machines changed the nature of their work, shoemakers, hatters, printers, furniture makers, and weavers faced declining income, job insecurity, and loss of status.

How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?

By passing protective tariffs

Between 1820 and 1840, the economic conditions for casual day laborers in American cities changed in which of the following ways?

Casual day laborers bore the brunt of unemployment during business depressions.

Which of the following groups would most likely have supported the arguments in the excerpt above?

Federalists in the 1790s

Which concept promoted by the Second Great Awakening reinforced its push for societal reform?

Free moral agency

How did Thomas Jefferson respond to the development of American manufacturing by the 1820s?

He praised industrialization and expressed pride in American progress in manufacturing.

Which of the following developments LEAST contributed to the grievances articulated in the petition above?

Increased agricultural production resulting from technological inventions

Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth- century America?

Irish immigrants

Which of the following statements describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system?

Its creators recruited farm girls and women to work in factories.

Through which of the following sources did the U.S. Treasury raise most of its revenue during the first half of the 1800s?

Personal income taxes

Through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in effecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early nineteenth-century America?

Temperance

Which of these did elite Americans embrace after the Industrial Revolution in order to set themselves apart from other groups of Americans?

The duty to enforce moral and mental discipline in American communities

Which of the following did NOT result from the Supreme Court ruling above or similar rulings by the Supreme Court in the early 1800s?

The promotion of regional interests over national concerns

The expansion of the U.S. transportation network by 1837, as shown in the map above, benefitted MOST from which of the following technological advances?

The steam engine