Exam 10: America’s Economic Revolution

The great majority of pre-Civil War immigrants came from Ireland and England.

Prior to 1860, rural Americans had almost no contact with the rest of the world.

Describe the interrelationship between one technological development in the pre-Civil War era and another.

As the immigrant labor force in New England textile mills grew in the 1840s,

American factory workers in early nineteenth-century textile mills largely consisted of

The ________ was invented by McCormick, while the machine thresher was invented by Case.

The development of a railroad system weakened connections between the Northwest and the South.

The main staple crop of the Old Northwest (today's Midwest) was

What were the advances in new technology that had the greatest effect on the emerging American factory system during the first half of the nineteenth century?

As of the middle of the nineteenth century, the typical citizen of the Northwest was a poor, marginal farmer.

Describe rural life in the American Northwest during the last three decades before the Civil War. How did it compare to both rural and urban life in the East?

Corporate development was aided by laws permitting a system of ________ for individual stockholders.

Before 1860, the development of machine tools by the United States government resulted in the

How do you account for the terrific growth of American industry prior to the Civil War?

Compared to 1800, in 1860 urban American families

In the early 1850s, a new political body called the American Party was created by a group called the "________."

The most profound economic development in mid-nineteenth-century America was the rise of the ________.