Exam 8: Northern Transformations

Commercial agriculture in the Northwest was first made feasible by the

The National Road linked the_____________ with the Ohio River at Wheeling, Virginia.

Describe factory work in the Rhode Island and Waltham systems at the beginning of the American Industrial Revolution.

Eastbound traffic on the National Road consisted largely of

A Midwife's Tale was based on the diary of_____________.

The first successful American steamboat, Clermont , was built by_____________.

Explore the beginnings of textile manufacturing in New England in the period 1790 to 1830 and its evolution in cities after 1815.

In the 50 years following 1820, American cities grew at a faster rate than at any other time in history.

Thomas Jefferson saw the ideal American society as one whose economy was dominated by

Prior to the rise of the market revolution, bartering was common in farm societies.

During the period from 1790 to 1815, artisans were losing their independent status; most became

The building of the Erie Canal raised the cost of transporting western wheat in the early nineteenth century.

The National Road linked

Steamboats reduced the cost of transporting goods by river to approximately per ton.

Farmers in the South and West did not keep records of what they were owed and considered record-keeping a sign of greed.

By the 1830s, northeastern farmers' relationship to the market had

By the 1860s, the railroads had replaced canals and rivers as the major transportation avenues in the Northeast.

Farmers in the South and West embraced the , in which they simply remembered what they were owed.

The National Road ran from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and linked the nation along its North-South axis.

_____________were artisans who worked for wages.