Exam 8: The Emergence of a Market Economy

British cotton manufacturers preferred cotton from the American South to other types from around the world.

Match each description with the item below. -Samuel B. Morse F.

Which of the following statements correctly characterizes the Germans who came to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Which of the following statements describes physicians in the early 1800s?

In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that

The United States had the fastest growing economy in the world by 1850.

To uphold standards of quality and maintain decent wage levels, craftsman at first formed

Over the course of the nineteenth century, many regions of the United States experienced a shift from ________ agriculture to ________ agriculture.

Following the War of 1812, the United States economy stalled due to its continued reliance on European factories.

Which of the following statements about steamboats is accurate?

What encouraged migration to the West?

Which of the following was a result of the market-based economy that emerged during the first half of the nineteenth century in the United States?

Trace the development of organized labor in early America. Be sure to include both the early union movement and the development of labor politics.

Which of the following did the public generally consider acceptable activities for women outside the home?

German immigrants in the 1850s

What factors account for the tremendous growth in cotton cultivation from 1790 to 1860?

Match each description with the item below. -Stephen Foster

The cotton gin made cotton the most profitable agricultural product in the United States.

Discuss the environmental and legal developments that occurred in the United States as a result of the rising number of mills in New England in the first half of the nineteenth century.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, social drinking was pervasive.