Exam 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

Increasingly Northeastern farmers were buying farms to rent to ____________________.

An 1816 Senate report stated that it cost the same to transport one ton of goods across the Atlantic Ocean as it did to move one ton of goods ____ miles inland.

Which of the following was not an agricultural improvement of the mid-1800s?

Samuel Slater smuggled printed copies for the water-powered spinning machine from England to America.

Most canals were built in the ____________________ and ____________________.

In general the birth rate declined in areas of greatest commercialization.

The Erie Canal was an immense success.

Commercial agriculture in the Northwest was first made feasible by the

Which of the following most accurately describes alcohol consumption in the early republic?

Most canals built in the 1830s were built and financed by

Under the Rhode Island system

The market revolution occurred only in the North.

Between 1820 and 1840, agricultural exports from the Northwest increased by

In 1815 the largest American city was

In the early nineteenth century, in seaport cities

Early-nineteenth century New England farms were geared toward subsistence.

The first successful American steamboat, Clermont, was built by ____________________.

Until about 1830, most western settlers were southerners who settled near the tributaries of the Ohio-Mississippi River system.

As a result of the market revolution, women spent fewer hours on housework.

In 1803, ____________________ entered the Union as a state.