Exam 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

Farm labor in post-revolutionary America saw

The canal boom was followed quickly by a boom in railroads.

Mid-nineteenth century New England farmers

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

The transportation revolution reduced both the time and the expense of moving heavy goods.

In the early nineteenth century,the main reason Americans drank was to get drunk.

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

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

Improvements in transportation in 1815 tied old communities together and penetrated previously isolated neighborhoods.

The young,single women who worked under the Waltham system

The market revolution did not affect the family.

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

The major technological improvements in early American industrial development were stolen from English inventors.

Which of the following was true of industrial development in the early constitutional era?

In 1790,more than ____________________ percent of Americans lived on farms and in rural villages.

In the mid-nineteenth century,new female housework responsibilities included

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

____________________ became the great New England cash crop.

All the following regarding southern farmers who moved into the Northwest is true except they

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