Between 1820 and 1840, the population of the United States |
rapidly grew, in part due to improved public health |
Between 1800 and 1830, immigration to the United States |
was not a significant contributor to the national population |
In 1860, the percentage of the population in free states living in towns (places of 2,500 people or more) was |
twenty-six percent |
In 1860, the percentage of the population in the South living in towns (places of 2,500 or more) was |
ten percent |
Which city did NOT owe its growth to the Great Lakes |
Cleveland |
Between 1840 and 1860, the overwhelming majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States came from |
Ireland and Germany |
Before 1860, the largest single group of arriving Irish immigrants was |
young, single women |
Before 1860, compared to Irish immigrants to the United States, German immigrants |
generally arrived with more money. |
Prior to 1860, hostility among native-born Americans toward immigrants was spurred, in part, by |
fears of political radicalism |
The "Know-Nothing" movement was partially directed at reducing the influence of |
Democrats |
After 1852, the "Know-Nothings" created a new political organization called the |
American Party |
In comparing turnpike transportation to canal transportation |
New York was the first to finance turnpike construction |
The Erie Canal was |
a tremendous financial success |
In the 1820s and 1830s, railroads |
played a relatively small role in the nation's transportation system. |
Which of the following statements regarding American railroads in the 1850s is FALSE |
Private investors provided nearly all the capital for rail development. |
During the 1840s, advances in journalism included all of the following EXCEPT |
the technological means to reproduce photographs in newsprint |
Before the 1830s, American corporations could be chartered only by |
state legislatures |
In the 1830s, limited liability laws were developed in the United States that |
restricted the amount of capital a corporation could possess |
By 1860, factories in the United States |
were concentrated in the Northeast |
Before 1860, the development of machine tools by the United States government resulted in the |
turret lathe, universal milling machine, and precision grinder |
By 1860, the energy for industrialization in the United States increasingly came from |
coal |
By the middle of the nineteenth century, merchant capitalists in the United States |
were an increasingly important economic force |
In the 1820s and 1830s, the labor force for factory work in the United States |
None of these answers is correct |
American factory workers in early nineteenth-century textile mills largely consisted of |
families and rural, single women |
When the Lowell factory system began |
workers were fairly well paid and lived in supervised dormitories |
As the Lowell factory system progressed into the 1840s |
the owners increasingly used immigrants as their labor force |
In the 1840s, the dominant immigrant group in New England textile mills was the |
Irish |
As the immigrant labor force in New England textile mills grew in the 1840s |
payment by piece rate replaced a daily wage. |
The republican tradition in the United States included the tradition of |
the skilled artisan |
The rise of the American factory system |
led to the creation of skilled workingmen's craft societies |
The early union movement among skilled artisans |
was weakened by the Panic of 1837 |
The Massachusetts court case of Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) declared that |
labor unions were lawful organizations |
All of the following factors inhibited the growth of labor unions EXCEPT |
the question of whether to include women members |
The commercial and industrial growth in the United States prior to 1860 resulted in |
increasing disparities in income between the rich and poor |
Prior to 1860, American urban society |
None of these answers is correct |
In most parts of the North, before the Civil War, free blacks could |
compete for menial jobs |
Prior to 1860, class conflict in the United States |
was limited by a high degree of mobility within the working class |
Prior to 1860, the fastest-growing segment in American society was the |
middle class |
The growth of commerce and industry allowed more Americans the chance to become prosperous without |
owning land |
became the most influential cultural form of urban America |
became the most influential cultural form of urban America |
Prior to 1860, the most significant invention for middle-class American homes was the |
cast-iron stove |
Early American Victorian homes were characterized by |
dark colors, and rooms crowded with heavy furniture |
Compared to 1800, in 1860, urban American families |
had a declining birth rate, and were more likely to see income earners work outside the home and see their children leave home in search of work. |
All of the following statements regarding American leisure activities prior to 1860 are true |
unpaid vacations were becoming common among the middle class |
In the 1840s, P. T. Barnum's American Museum in New York showcased |
human oddities |
In 1860, the typical white male American of the Old Northwest (today's Midwest) was |
an industrial worker |
For most American farmers, the 1840s and 1850s was a period of |
rising prosperity due to increased world demand for farm products |
The main staple crop of the Old Northwest (today's Midwest) was |
soy. |
In the 1840s, John Deere introduced significant improvements to the |
tractor. |
In the 1830s, Cyrus McCormick improved grain farming when he patented his |
reaper |