CHAPTER 9 QUIZ
Which of the following characterizes patterns 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
For which of the following reasons did New York's state government fund the building of the Erie Canal in 1817?
New Yorkers sought to link the Hudson River with the Great Lakes.
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
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
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.
The construction of the Erie Canal, the first great engineering project in American history, was successful for which of the following reasons?
It increased the speed of shipping and travel while greatly lowering its cost.
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 on British technology
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.
The most critical contribution American mechanics made to the Industrial Revolution was the development of which of the following?
Machine tools
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 Market Revolution
Around the 1830s, what new form of manufacturing emerged in America?
The fabrication of metal products
Which of these inventions spurred the growth of agriculture in the Midwest in the 1840s?
The steel plow
In the 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, the Marshall Court's decision
overturned New York law that granted a monopoly on steamboat travel into New York City.