Exam 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

In 1790, all of the largest American cities were ____________________.

By the 1790s, improvements in farming methods meant that more families could enjoy dairy products and poultry throughout the year.

By 1820, ____________________ percent of the nation's population were westerners.

By making a run from New Orleans to Louisville, the steamboat ____________________ demonstrated that two-way river trade was possible.

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

By 1820, the term "backcountry" had replaced "frontier" as a way to describe western settlements.

In post-revolutionary America, most farmers lived in isolation from each other.

By 1815, recent economic growth was greatest in seaport cities.

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

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

After 1830 most migrants to the Northwest came from the ____________________.

The Boston Associates built their first mill at ____________________.

The manufacturing system that relied on heavily capitalized and fully mechanized mills was known as the ____________________ system.

Between 1815 and 1840, northeastern agriculture became a cash-crop business.

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

A "market society" transformed not only the economy but how people looked at the world.

Describe Samuel Slater's importance to industrialization in the United States.

The canal that linked the Hudson River with Lake Erie was the ____________________.

Eastbound traffic on the National Road consisted largely of

Which of the following was true of American cities in 1790?