APUSH Chapter 9
Which of the following was an outcome of the American Industrial Revolution in the early nineteenth century
American businesses soon dominated in many European markets
Which American principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the American Industrial Revolution
American ingenuity
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
To which of the following causes did Isabella Graham and Joanna Bethune contribute in the early nineteenth century
Assisting widows and orphans
Which of these factors was the critical stimulus for the growth of domestic American markets in the first half of the nineteenth century
Better transportation networks
How did middle-class reformers attempt to overcome disorder and lawlessness among urban wage earners in early nineteenth-century America
By forming regional and national organizations to institutionalize charity and combat crime systematically
How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century
By passing protective tarrifs
Between 1820 and 1840, the economic conditions for casual day laborers in American cities changed in which of the following days
Casual day laborers bore the burnt of unemployment during business depressions
What killed thousands of poor immigrants in St. Louis and New York City in the summer of 1849
Cholera
Which of these did elite American embrace after the Industrial Revolution in order to set themselves apart from other groups of Americans
Conspicuous displays of their wealth through clothing and housing
Which of these inventions spurred the growth of agriculture in the Midwest in the 1840s
Corn feeding for livestock
Which of the following describes German immigrants who settled in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s
Germans were the second largest immigrant group and many settled in the midwestern states
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
Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America
Irish immigrants
Who replaced the Lowell Mils workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved
Irish immigrants
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 describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system
Its creators recruited farm girls and women to work in factories
Which inventor properly matched with the item he invented
John Deere - Steel plow
The most critical contribution American mechanics made to the Industrial Revolution was the development of which of the following
Machine tools
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
In the first half of the nineteenth century, American manufacturers' main advantage over the British mills was that they had access to which of the following
More natural resources
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
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
Which of the following was an outcome of the division of labor in early American shoe factories
Show production increased
By the 1830s, coal and metal manufacturers increasingly used which of the following to run machinery
Steam engines
Through which of the following sources did the U.S. Treasury raise most of its revenue during the first half of the 1800s
Tariffs on imported goods
Through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in effecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early nineteenth-century America
Temperance
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
Which of the following was the message of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, published in full in 1818
The suggestion that an industrious man could become wealthy
Which of the following factors explained the rapid growth of western cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New Orleans
Their role in transportation networks
Which of these describes the experiences of the young women who worked in the New England textile mills in the 1820s and 1830s
They were able to save their wages for later use or to help out their families
Why did Congress approve funds for the construction of the National Road in 1806
To link midwestern settlers to seaboard states
Which of the following was an outcome of the rural outwork system of manufacturing in the 1820's and 1830's
Workers' wages decreased
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
In the 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons vs. Ogden, the Marshall Court's decision
overturned New York law that granted a monopoly on steamboat travel into New York City
During the 1840s and 1850s, Roman Catholic churches in the United States were known for
providing community services and a sense of group identity for most Irish and many German immigrants
Which of the following Puritan ideas became a middle-class conviction with the secular twist during industrialization in the early 1800s
the Protestant work ethinc
The concept that the price of a product should reflect the work required to make it is known as
the labor theory of value
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