Unit 3 Pt. 1 Flashcards
Which of the following was an outcome of the division of labor in early American shoe factories?
Increased output and cut price of shoes, demoted artisans to semiskilled wage laborers, eroded workers’ wages and independence, turned employers into powerful “shoe bosses”
Which of the following was an outcome of the rural outwork system of manufacturing in the 1820s and 1830s?
Products not suited to be me made in the outwork system sparked the factory
Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America?
Factory: concentrated production under one roof. Made when you cannot do things in the home. IE slaughterhouse (Cincinnati=Porkopolis)
Around the 1830s, what new form of manufacturing emerged in America?
Factory
By the 1830s, coal and metal manufacturers increasingly used which of the following to run machinery?
coal-burning stationary steam engines rather than water power
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
In the first half of the nineteenth century, American manufacturers’ main advantage over the British mills was that they had access to which of the following?
Britain depleted natural resources, but the US had large, unused natural resources
In the early 1800s, British textile manufacturers had which of the following advantages over their American competitors?
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How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?
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Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of the textile industry in the United States?
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Which of the following statements describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system?
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Which of these describes the experiences of the young women who worked in the New England textile mills in the 1820s and 1830s?
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How did Thomas Jefferson respond to the development of American manufacturing by the 1820s?
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Which American principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the American Industrial Revolution?
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The most critical contribution American mechanics made to the Industrial Revolution was the development of which of the following?
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Which of the following was an outcome of the American Industrial Revolution in the early nineteenth century?
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Which of the following was one of the ways that wageworkers strove to resist their bosses’ efforts to control their nonwork lives in the early to mid-nineteenth century?
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How did the spread of industrialization in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s affect skilled artisans?
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The concept that the price of a product should reflect the work required to make it is known as
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Who replaced the Lowell Mill workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved?
Immigrants **
Which of these factors was the critical stimulus for the growth of domestic American markets in the first half of the nineteenth century?
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The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following?
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Why did Congress approve funds for the construction of the National Road in 1806?
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For which of the following reasons did New York’s state government fund the building of the Erie Canal in 1817?
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How did the appearance of canals and steamboats in the United States affect the flow of goods and information during the 1830s?
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The construction of the Erie Canal, the first great engineering project in American history, was successful for which of the following reasons?
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The construction of the Erie Canal had which of the following negative consequences?
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In the 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, the Marshall Court’s decision
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Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the United States in the nineteenth century?
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Which of these inventions spurred the growth of agriculture in the Midwest in the 1840s?
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Which of the following factors explained the rapid growth of western cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New Orleans?
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Which inventor is properly matched with the item he invented?
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Through which of the following sources did the U.S. Treasury raise most of its revenue during the first half of the 1800s?
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Which of these did elite Americans embrace after the Industrial Revolution in order to set themselves apart from other groups of Americans?
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Which of the following Puritan ideas became a middle-class conviction with a secular twist during industrialization in the early 1800s?
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Which of the following was the message of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, published in full in 1818?
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Between 1820 and 1840, the economic conditions for casual day laborers in American cities changed in which of the following ways?
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By the 1830s, most laborers in the urban Northeast lived in which type of residences?
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How did middle-class reformers attempt to overcome disorder and lawlessness among urban wage earners in early nineteenth-century America?
Temperance societies*
To which of the following causes did Isabella Graham and Joanna Bethune contribute in the early nineteenth century?
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