Exam 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

Easterners described frontiersmen as

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

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

IDENTIFICATIONS -Rhode Island system

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

"Johnny Appleseed" was a fictional character created by Walt Disney.

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

A "razorback" was a southern term for a(n)____________________.

In the 1820s,the richest men in cities were ____________________.

The Erie Canal

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

The Erie Canal was an immense success.

State governments took a more or less "laissez-faire" approach to the building of canals in the early nineteenth century.

Which of the following was not a result of the transformed rural landscape of the Northeast in the 1830s and 1840s?

American society in the early nineteenth century

IDENTIFICATIONS -"sweated" trade

Discuss the role of the transportation revolution in creating the market economy of the nineteenth century.

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

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

IDENTIFICATIONS -Francis Cabot Lowell