chapter 9

Which of the following was not a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution? -the ongoing cycle of boom and bust -America's failure to attract many newcomers from Europe -the increasing dependence of workers upon wage labor -the rising inequalities of wealth

-America's failure to attract many newcomers from Europe

Which was not an innovation associated with the market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century? -railroads -telephones -steamboats -canals

-telephones

As a consequence of the expansive growth in the U.S. economy associated with the market revolution, skilled free black workers found their status and incomes rising. T/F

False

Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of Walden. T/F

False

The distribution of wealth in the United States was fairly even in the nineteenth century. T/F

False

Westward migration and urban development decreased the mobile population. T/F

False

What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?

It stimulated its growth.

This religious leader claimed to have been led by an angel to a set of golden plates covered with strange writing which he translated and later published, starting this religion.

Mormonism

American industrialization first emerged most prominently in

New England.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following? -proslavery -a transcendentalist -a southerner -the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Transcendentalist

By 1824, the nation's population had

Tripled

In 1834, after hearing a ministerial sermon in Boston, a mob incited to burn a Catholic convent in the city. T/F

True

In Thoreau's view, the market revolution degraded both people's values and the natural environment. T/F

True

In the nineteenth century, barred from schools and other facilities, free black Americans constructed their own institutional life, centered on churches, educational, and mutual aid societies. T/F

True

The early industrial revolution produced textiles near water sources, as water power was necessary to drive their machinery. T/F

True

The market revolution created a new middle class made up of clerks, accountants, and other office employees. T/F

True

The rise of the corporation was crucial to the success of the market economy. T/F

True

There was a rapid decline in the birth rate during the course of the nineteenth century, such that from an average of seven children per family, by 1900 women on average had four children. T/F

True

Of the following projects, New York City's commercial ascent was owed chiefly to

the Erie Canal.

Early New England textile mills relied largely on the labor of

women and children.