history quiz chapter 14

American industry was slow to develop because

U.S. manufacturers had difficulty competing in quality and price with imported European goods

The legal principle of free incorporation meant that

businessmen could create corporations without applying for individual state charters

The Erie Canal was economically most important because it

closely linked the agricultural Midwest to the Northeast and New York City

The worst anti-Catholic violence occurred in 1834 and 1844 in the cities of

Boston and Philadelphia

In the early nineteenth-century industrial system

almost all women who worked for wages outside the home were single.

Eli Whitney's cotton gin enabled

cotton production to expand from the coastal areas to the vast plains of Alabama and Mississippi.

Eli Whitney's cotton gin

enabled the South to take the lead in cotton cloth manufacturing

Catherine Beecher relentlessly encouraged American women to

go into the profession of teaching

The Jacksonian era affected labor most significantly because

many of the states granted the laboring man the vote

Almost all the growth of the American population after 1820 came from

natural increase rather than immigration.

One consequence of the smaller American families of the early nineteenth century was that

the family became more child-centered and focused on shaping children, rather than breaking their will

The sectional division of labor that developed before the Civil War led to most manufacturing enterprise being concentrated in the

Northeast

A key to the advancement of the free market economy occurred when the Supreme Court ruled that exclusive business charters granted to certain corporations were unconstitutional

True

In the 1820s and 1830s, most adult male wage earners

substantially improved their economic conditions.

The great Irish immigration of the 1840s was particularly stimulated by

the potato famine in Ireland