Exam 10: America’s Economic Revolution

As the factory system progressed into the 1840s,

The republican vision in the United States included the tradition of the

Why did railroads become the key American industry in the nineteenth century?

Elias Howe's invention of the ________ required precision grinding machines to construct.

Between 1820 and 1840,the population of the United States

The process for ________ rubber,treating it to give it greater strength and elasticity,was discovered by Charles Goodyear.

For most nineteenth-century urban Americans,leisure activities grew more varied.

Which of the following is true of the differences between canal and turnpike transportation?

The early union movement among skilled artisans

After 1852,the "Know-Nothings" created a new political organization called the

Before 1860,compared to Irish immigrants,German immigrants to the United States

The Northwest considered itself the most democratic section of the country,but it was a democracy based on a defense of economic freedom and the rights of property.

The building of the ________,which began in 1817,was the greatest construction project the United States had yet undertaken.

The transition from farm life to factory life for women in pre-Civil War America was difficult at best and traumatic at worst.

An increasingly popular form of entertainment was the ________,in which white actors mimicked (and ridiculed)African American culture.

As of the middle of the nineteenth century,the typical citizen of the Northwest was a poor,marginal farmer.

Immigration contributed little to the American population in the first three decades of the nineteenth century.

How did the emergence of the factory system change the face of American labor during the first half of the nineteenth century?

In the 1830s,limited liability laws were developed in the United States,which

In 1860,the typical white male American of the Old Northwest (today's Midwest)was