Chapter 9 practice quiz true false

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.

True - pg 348

Cotton gin was a beverage invented by Eli Whitney

false - pg327

Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin improved the lives of millions of African-Americans

false - pg327

By the 1840s, most working people outside the South toiled in large factories.

false - pg332

With the Second Great Awakening, American Christianity became more hierarchical and out of touch with the common folk

false - pg335-336

The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution

false - pg337-338

In Commonwealth v. Hunt, Massachusetts chief justice Lemuel Shaw decreed that there was nothing inherently illegal in workers organizing a union or a strike.

false - pg338

Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of Walden.

false - pg341

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.

false - pg348

The distribution of wealth was fairly even in the nineteenth-century United States.

false -pg 251

From the 1830s to the 1850s, Americans were largely a sedentary lot who lived out their lives in the locale in which they were born.

false- pg324-325

During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth.

true - pg 351

The market revolution swept over the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.

true - pg320

America's early factories drew largely upon the labor of women and children

true - pg333

The largest group of immigrants to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s came from Ireland, which was then in the throes of the great potato famine

true - pg336

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

true - pg337

Some women served as preachers in the African Methodist Episcopal Church

true - pg338

The market revolution in the nineteenth-century United States produced dynamic and expansive growth in the nation's output and in trade, and a rising standard of living for millions of Americans.

true - pg347

Free blacks were largely denied access to the material opportunities generated by the market revolution.

true - pg348

There was a rapid decline in the birthrate 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

true - pg349

For the expanding middle class, it became a badge of respectability for wives to remain at home.

true - pg350

In the nineteenth century, a married woman could not legally sign independent contracts; she could not sue someone in court in her own name; and not until after the Civil War could she, not her husband, control the wages she earned.

true - pg350

The common nineteenth-century view was that men are naturally aggressive, rational, and domineering, while women are naturally nurturing, selfless, and ruled by emotions.

true - pg350

Workingmen formed political parties in the late 1820s and among the goals of these ephemeral political parties were free public education, an end to imprisonment for debt, and a ten-hour workday

true - pg352

Expanding networks of toll roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads were essential to the takeoff of the market revolution.

true -pg320-321

With the market revolution, the artisanal workshop gave way to relentless pressure for greater output and lower wages.

true -pg333

Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money.

true -pg341

In Thoreau's view, the market revolution degraded both people's values and the natural environment

true -pg341

Industrialization, a key element in the dynamic and expansive growth of the market economy, was most notable in the northeastern United States.

true -pg347-348

Millions of Americans' lives were improved by the nineteenth-century market revolution.

true pg348