Chapter 9 Flashcards
-Before 1845, steamboats were used more for transportation on the ocean than on internal waterways.
false
-By the 1850s, trains traveled an average of forty miles an hour.
false
+Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin on a plantation in Georgia.
true
+Church attendance and temperance were enforced among early workers at Lowell.
true
+Theatergoers in the antebellum period often hurled insults and objects at performers.
true
-The greatest proportionate influx of immigrants in the history of the United States came in the 1820s.
false
-Because they too had suffered discrimination, Irish immigrants tended to be sympathetic to blacks.
false
-Irish immigrants to the United States tended to join the Republican Party.
false
+Chinese immigrants to the United States often did the heavy work of construction.
true
+Despite the rhetoric of the era, the Jacksonian period was actually marked by rising economic and social inequality.
true
*The advantage clipper ships had over traditional merchant vessels was their:
speed
*The textile plant established in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1813:
manufactured finished cloth
*The Rhode Island or Fall River systems differed from that of Lowell in that:
whole families were often employed
*By the early 1800s, the five largest American cities were all major:
seaports
*The most popular form of indoor entertainment in the first half of the nineteenth century was:
theater
*In antebellum theaters, audiences:
responded vocally to the quality of performances
*Lyman Beecher’s anti-Catholic sermons in 1834:
provoked a mob to attack the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts
*The Know-Nothings proposed to:
lengthen the time required to become a citizen
*The Know-Nothings campaigned primarily to:
limit immigrant influence
*The newest and fastest-growing profession in the United States by 1860 was:
engineering
/ John Jacob Astor
was America’s wealthiest man in 1840s
/ Lyman Beecher
preached anti-Catholic sermons
/ Charles Goodyear
Patented a process for vulcanizing rubber
/ Stephen Foster
wrote “Oh! Susanna”
/ Robert Fulton
improved the steamboat
/ Elias Howe
invented the sewing machine
/ Francis Cabot Lowell
with Boston Associates, formed the Boston Manufacturing Company
/ Samuel F. B. Morse
invented the telegraph
/ Cyrus McCormick
invented the primitive grain reaper
/ Samuel Slater
used his memory to bring industrial technology from Britain to the United States
