APUSH Chapter 8

Which of the following historical developments contributed most directly to the market revolution?

The emergence of new forms of transportation

Which of the following describes "the Lowell system" in early nineteenth-century New England?

A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities

Which of the following pieces of historical evidence from the United States census could best be used to support the argument in the excerpt?

Data showing changes in the number of textile mills

Which of the following most directly made possible the ideas described in the excerpt?

Innovations including textile machinery, steam engines, and interchangeable parts

The ideas described in the excerpt contributed most directly to which of the following?

More Americans producing goods for national markets

The expansion of a market economy in the early nineteenth century is reflected in which of the following?

The improvement of transportation and availability of goods

Which of the following most directly contributed to the situation described in the excerpt?

The market revolution

Which of the following developments in the early nineteenth century could best be used as evidence to support the argument in the second paragraph of the excerpt?

The rise of a regional economy based on the production and export of cotton

During the first half of the nineteenth century, some women increasingly "bolster[ed] the household income," as described in the excerpt, by

obtaining positions in textile mills

The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly

produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry

The National Road was constructed primarily for the purpose of

promoting trade and communication with the Old Northwest

The method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process that

relied on the use of power-driven machinery

The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it

strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions

In the early 1830's, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were

young unmarried women from rural New England