chapter 9
which of the follwoing statemnts 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 american principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the american industrial revolution
American ingenuity
Which of these did elite Americans 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
in the first half of the nineteenth century, american manufactuers main advatages over the british mills was that they had acess to which if the following
More natural resources
which of the following characteristics patterns of immigration into the US 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 US 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 for of transportation in the US 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
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 connected the great lakes to the east coast and fueled the economic rise of new york city
The Erie Canal
which of the following developments most directly resulted from the changed wastson details in the excerpt
The Transportation Revolution
through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in effecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early ninetheenth century america
temperance
which of the following puritan ideas became a middle class conviction with a secular twist during industrialization in the early 1800s
the Protestant work ethinc
the developments desribed in the excerpt were most directly associated with which of the following occuring in the us at that time
the rise of the middle class
the expansion of the us trasportation network by 1837 as shown in the map above, benefited most from which of the following technological advances
the steam engine
Who replaced the Lowell Mill workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved?
Irish immigrants
which of the followng describes the new industrial system that developed in early ninteenth century america
It brought workers together under one roof in a factory
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 statements characterizes the emergence of the textile industry in the united states
Used textile machinery as their model. American textile producers built their own textile mills in New England and improved the British model
which of the following was an outcome of the american industrial revolution in the early nineteenth century
American businesses soon dominated in many European market
What killed thousands of poor immigrants in St. Louis and New York City in the summer of 1849?
Cholera
the opening of canals and new roads in the US as depicted in the map above had the least impact on which of the following
European immigration to the United States
which of the following developments least contributed to the articulated in the petition above
Increased agricultural production resulting from technological inventions
During the 1840s and 1850s, which set of immigrant groups arrived in unprecedented numbers, resulting in a nativist backlash in popular culture?
Irish and Germans
which of the following statements best describes the waltham lowell system
It involved using mill girls from rural areas to work in textile factories
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 is properly matched with the item he invented?
John Deere - Steel plow
which of the following groups would most likely have supported the arguments in the petition above
Laissez-faire capitalists in the early 1900s
In the early 1800s, British textile manufacturers had which of the following advantages over their American competitors?
Large pool of cheap labor
How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?
Passing protective tariffs
the transformation that occured as american factories and farmers turned out more goods, and merchants and legislatures created faster cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following
The Market Revolution
which of the following was the major cause of the developments described in the excerpt
The Market Revolution
charles grandison finney found success as a young revivalist preacher in the 1820a by emphasizing which of the following issues in his sermons
The importance of personal conversion
By the 1830s, most laborers in the urban Northeast lived in which type of residences?
crowded boarding houses and tiny apartments
the sentiments epressed in the petition above can be understoof in the context of
debates over the federal government's role in the economy.
which concept promoted by the second great awakening reinforced its push for scietal reform
free moral agency
the majority of irish immigrants to the UUS in the 1840s and 1850s settked
in cities along the east coast.
Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America?
irish immigrants
in the 1824 US 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
