Exam 13: Forging the National Economy

Compare and contrast the Irish and German immigrants of early 19^th-century America in terms of their motives for leaving Europe, pattern of settlement in the United States, impact on American life, and reception by native-born Americans.

The concentration of capital for investment in large-scale enterprises in the early 19^th century was promoted by the

Construction of the Erie Canal

As a result of the development of the cotton gin

Identify and state the historical significance of Eli Whitney.

The early factory system distributed its economic benefits

Identify and state the historical significance of Elias Howe.

With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West

The first major transportation project in the United States, which ran 62 miles and was completed in the 1790s, that proved to be a stimulus for western economic developments was the

German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to

By 1850, America's factory system was mass producing for widespread sale within the country and for export of

Identify and state the historical significance of DeWitt Clinton.

Identify and state the historical significance of Cyrus Field.

Those nativists who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized in 1849

The initial waves of Irish immigrants typically worked in all of the following occupations EXCEPT

The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was

A great deal of the cotton produced in the American South in the early 19^th century was

The major application for steamboats transporting freight and passengers in the United States was on

Write your definition of revolution. Then use this definition to argue that the industrial revolution was or was not a revolutionary event.

Advances in manufacturing and transportation brought