Exam 10: America’s Economic Revolution

Virtually all of the early craft unions excluded women, even though female workers were numerous in almost every industry.

For most American farmers, the 1840s and 1850s were a period of

In most parts of the North, before the Civil War, free blacks could

The recruitment of young women to work and live in a factory setting was called the ________ or Waltham system.

During the 1840s, advances in journalism included all of the following EXCEPT the

In the 1830s, limited liability laws were developed in the United States, which

The commercial and industrial growth in the United States prior to 1860 resulted in

Why did railroads become the key American industry in the nineteenth century?

Prior to 1860, class conflict in the United States

Given the rapid increase in population, recruiting a labor force was a fairly easy task in the early years of the American factory system.

Prior to 1860, hostility among native-born Americans toward immigrants was spurred, in part, by

The primary assistance from the federal government to railroad companies came in the form of ________.

For most nineteenth-century urban Americans, leisure activities grew more varied.

In the 1820s and 1830s, railroads

How did American leisure time and activities during the 1830s and 1840s compare with leisure during the 1810s and 1820s?

After 1852, the "Know-Nothings" created a new political organization called the

Prior to 1860, perhaps the most significant invention for middle-class American homes was the

The first railroad company actually to begin operations was the ________.

Between 1840 and 1860, the overwhelming majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States came from

Many of the free blacks in the North were people who had been skilled crafts workers as slaves and who bought or were given their freedom.