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Of the following projects, New York City’s commercial ascent was owed chiefly to

the Erie Canal

What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?

cotton gin

WOTF was nota significant trend to American thought during the market revolution?

a belief that one’s spiritual salvation was purely a matter of chance

Early New England textile mills relied largely on the labor of

women and children

Which was not an aspect of women’s changing role in the context of the expansive and dynamic growth of the market economy in 19th century America?

In the new, competitive, capitalist marketplace, women were to grow increasingly into captains of industry, becoming leaders of some of the nation’s most important idustiries.

America’s first successful factory was established in 1790 by

Samuel Slater at Pawtucket, Rhode Island

"Manifest Destiny" was

that the United States had a God-given mission to expand westward.

The 1825 completion of the 363-mile Erie Canal connected

the Great Lakes with New York City

Chicago’s spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to

railroads

"Slave coffles…became a common sight." Define "coffles"

groups chained to one another

Which was not an element of the Second Great Awakening?

It emphasized predestination and the importance of each soul as being in the hands of an angry God

The court case in which it was held that workers’ unions are not illegal was

Commonwealth v. Hunt

WOTF series of events is listed in proper sequence

work begun on Ntion Road; steamboat introduced on Mississippi River; work begun on Erie Canal; work bejun on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

American industrializatin first took off in

New England

What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in teh United States

Stimulated its growth

WOTF destroyed Henry Dvaid Thoreau’s commune with nature?

a train

WOTF was not a key difference between traditional artisan production and the new factory system?

Artisans generally labored under closer supervision than did factory workers

WOTF was not a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution

America’s failure to attract many newcomers from Europe

The Second Great Awakening was

a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s

The "American system of manufactures"

was the mass prduction of interchangeable parts into rapidly built, standardized products

During the first half of the 1800s, the US economy experienced explovsive growth in output and trade, and a rise in the standard of living for millions of Americans… Historians call this new economy

the market revolution or market economy

Democracy in America was written by

Alexis de Tocqueville

WOTF was not an innate characteristic of women, according to the "cult of domesticity"?

analytical insight

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, freedom was

an open-ended process of self-realization by which individual could remake themselves

WOTF was not a feature of westward expanison during the early to mid-1800s

Cities had no significant presence in the expanding West.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following

a transcendentalist

Which was not an innovation associated with the market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century?

telephones

In the period between 1820 and 1840, what two staes combined saw the biggest spresad (increase) in cotton cultivation?

Louisiana and Mississippi

The market revolution swept over the us

true

Ely Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin improved the lives of millions of Afro american

false

The largest group of immigrants to the US druing the 1840’s and 1850s came from ireland

true

free blacks were largely denied access to the material

true

THe market revolution in teh 19th century US produced dynamic

true

According to alexis de tocqaueville americans believed that they were the only enlightened

true

in the 19th century barred from schools and other failities free balck americans consturcted their own institutional life

true

by the 1840s most working people outside the south toiled in large factories

false

druing the 1820s and 1830s an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions

true

Expanding networks of toll roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads were essential

true

Cincinnati was known as Porkoplis beacuse of its slaughterhouses, in which hundreds of thousands of pigs were butchered each year

true

In Thoreau’s view the market revolution degraded both ppls values and the natural environment

true

Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of Walden

False

Cotton gin was a begerage invented by Eli Whitney

false

in the 19th century a married women could not legally sign independent contracts

true

from the 1830s to the 1850s americans were largely a sedentary lot who lived out their lives in the locale in which they were born

false

THe distribution of wealth was fairly een in teh 19th century us

false

Some women served as preachers in the african methodist episcopal church

true

As a consequence of the expansive grouth inteh US economy associated with the market revolution

false

Industrialization a key element in the dynamic and expaniseve growth of the market economy

true

with the market revolution the artisanal workshop gave way to relentless pressure for greater output and lower wages

true

There was a rapid decline in teh birthrate during the course of the 19th century such that from average of seven children per family

true

The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution

false

Workingmen formed politicial parties in the late 1820s and among the goals of these ephemeral

true

The common 19th century view was that men are naturally aggressive, rational, and domineering

true

The rise of the corportation was crucial to the success fo the market economy

True

In Commonweatlh v Hunt Massachusetts chief justic lemuel shaw decreed that there was nothing inherently illegal in workers organizing a union of a stike

false

Millions of Americans llives were improved by the 19th century market revoluiton

true

With the second great awakening amerian christianity became more hierarchical and out of touch with the common folk

false

Americans early factories drew largely upon the labor of women and children

true

For the expending middle class it became a badge of respectability for wives to remain at home

true

Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society and trapped in boring dead-end jobs by their obessive desire to earn money

true