Growth of Manufacturing 124-145 (40) Flashcards

1
Q

By 1860, the percentage of the United States
workforce employed in manufacturing was
ABOUT

A

14%

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2
Q

As employers, United States textile mills in the
early 1800s

A

Tightly Controlled their workers lives

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3
Q

MOST employees of textile mills in the early
1800s were

A

young women

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4
Q

The placement of thread spinning and cloth
weaving operations in a single plant is an
example of

A

vertical integration

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5
Q

Which of the following machines was used for
spinning thread?

A

water frame

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6
Q

Which of the following Massachusetts cities
housed the first factories with power looms for
textile manufacturing?

A

Waltham

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7
Q

Which industrialist operated the first power
looms for textile manufacturing in the United
States?

A

Francis Lowell

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8
Q

How did Britain attempt to protect its textile
industry from foreign competition in the late
eighteenth century?

A

prohibiting exports of textile machinery

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9
Q

Whose move from Britain to the United States
helped jumpstart the American Industrial
Revolution in textile production?

A

Samuel Slater’s

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10
Q

Embargo- and war-based protection of early
U.S. domestic industry ended in

A

1815

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11
Q

The European trade embargo that spurred early
United States industrial growth was a response
to war between Britain and

A

France

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12
Q

Which of the following United States presidents
ordered a European trade embargo that
indirectly boosted American industrial
development?

A

Thomas Jefferson

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13
Q

What circumstance first caused the marginal
product of labor for agricultural workers to fall
steeply in the region where American factories
first emerged?

A

The region ran out of well-yielding land.

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14
Q

Which of the following regions was the first to
have an abundance of factories?

A

New England

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15
Q

The earliest forms of American manufacturing
involved around

A

textiles

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