Exam 14: Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: ​ Major Canals, Lakes, and Roads Linking the East and West, 1810-1860 -____ Ohio and Erie Canal

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

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

Immigrants coming to the United States before 1860  

One reason that the condition of a significant segment of adult wage earners improved was  

The growth of industry and the factory system in the United States was slowed by  

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: ​ Major Canals, Lakes, and Roads Linking the East and West, 1810-1860 -____ Lake Ontario

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

The underlying basis for modern mass production was  

As a result of the development of the cotton gin  

The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was  

Clipper ships and the Pony Express had in common  

Ireland's great export in the 1840s was  

The text's authors claim that on the eve of the Civil War, "a truly continental economy had emerged ...[in which] the principle of division of labor ...applied on a national scale." Briefly explain the operation of this national economy and its political implications.

All of the following are true statements about the workers in the Lowell factory system except  

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

Identify the single most significant development in (a)manufacturing technology, (b)transportation, (c)communications technology, and (d)business organization that encouraged industrialization in the United States.Explain your choice in each category.

Between 1830 and 1860, nearly ____ million Irish arrived in America.  

Compared with canals, railroads  

Most early railroads in the United States were built in the