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HIST 7A - Chapter 10: America's Economic Revolution

Question 1 of 15

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Cult of Domesticity

Select one of the following:

  • name that some scholars use to describe the idea that it was a woman's responsibility to be the custodians of morality and benevolence;

  • bringing textile operations together under a single roof, thanks to the use of new and larger machines driven by water power

  • system of labor which relied heavily, almost exclusively, on young unmarried women as workers

  • the greatest construction project the U.S. had undertaken at the time

  • a defense of native-born people and a hostility toward foreign-born, usually combined with a desire to stop or slow immigration

Explanation

Question 2 of 15

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Factory System

Select one of the following:

  • name that some scholars use to describe the idea that it was a woman's responsibility to be the custodians of morality and benevolence;

  • bringing textile operations together under a single roof, thanks to the use of new and larger machines driven by water power

  • system of labor which relied heavily, almost exclusively, on young unmarried women as workers

  • the greatest construction project the U.S. had undertaken at the time

  • a defense of native-born people and a hostility toward foreign-born, usually combined with a desire to stop or slow immigration

Explanation

Question 3 of 15

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Lowell System

Select one of the following:

  • name that some scholars use to describe the idea that it was a woman's responsibility to be the custodians of morality and benevolence;

  • bringing textile operations together under a single roof, thanks to the use of new and larger machines driven by water power

  • system of labor which relied heavily, almost exclusively, on young unmarried women as workers

  • the greatest construction project the U.S. had undertaken at the time

  • a defense of native-born people and a hostility toward foreign-born, usually combined with a desire to stop or slow immigration

Explanation

Question 4 of 15

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Nativism

Select one of the following:

  • name that some scholars use to describe the idea that it was a woman's responsibility to be the custodians of morality and benevolence;

  • bringing textile operations together under a single roof, thanks to the use of new and larger machines driven by water power

  • system of labor which relied heavily, almost exclusively, on young unmarried women as workers

  • the greatest construction project the U.S. had undertaken at the time

  • a defense of native-born people and a hostility toward foreign-born, usually combined with a desire to stop or slow immigration

Explanation

Question 5 of 15

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Erie Canal

Select one of the following:

  • name that some scholars use to describe the idea that it was a woman's responsibility to be the custodians of morality and benevolence;

  • bringing textile operations together under a single roof, thanks to the use of new and larger machines driven by water power

  • system of labor which relied heavily, almost exclusively, on young unmarried women as workers

  • the greatest construction project the U.S. had undertaken at the time

  • a defense of native-born people and a hostility toward foreign-born, usually combined with a desire to stop or slow immigration

Explanation

Question 6 of 15

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Cyrus H. McCormick

Select one of the following:

  • Inventor of the automatic reaper

  • After several years of experimentation, he succeed in transmitting a telegraph message from Baltimore to Washington in 1844

  • Creator of the female labor reform association, demanded a 10-hour work day and other improvements in the mills

  • Inventors of the sewing machine

  • Discovered the method of vulcanizing rubber, which made it strong and more flexible

Explanation

Question 7 of 15

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Samuel F. B. Morse

Select one of the following:

  • Inventor of the automatic reaper

  • After several years of experimentation, he succeed in transmitting a telegraph message from Baltimore to Washington in 1844

  • Creator of the female labor reform association, demanded a 10-hour work day and other improvements in the mills

  • Inventors of the sewing machine

  • Discovered the method of vulcanizing rubber, which made it strong and more flexible

Explanation

Question 8 of 15

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Sarah Bagley

Select one of the following:

  • Inventor of the automatic reaper

  • After several years of experimentation, he succeed in transmitting a telegraph message from Baltimore to Washington in 1844

  • Creator of the female labor reform association, demanded a 10-hour work day and other improvements in the mills

  • Inventors of the sewing machine

  • Discovered the method of vulcanizing rubber, which made it strong and more flexible

Explanation

Question 9 of 15

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Howe and Singer

Select one of the following:

  • Inventor of the automatic reaper

  • After several years of experimentation, he succeed in transmitting a telegraph message from Baltimore to Washington in 1844

  • Creator of the female labor reform association, demanded a 10-hour work day and other improvements in the mills

  • Inventors of the sewing machine

  • Discovered the method of vulcanizing rubber, which made it strong and more flexible

Explanation

Question 10 of 15

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Charles Goodyear

Select one of the following:

  • Inventor of the automatic reaper

  • After several years of experimentation, he succeed in transmitting a telegraph message from Baltimore to Washington in 1844

  • Creator of the female labor reform association, demanded a 10-hour work day and other improvements in the mills

  • Inventors of the sewing machine

  • Discovered the method of vulcanizing rubber, which made it strong and more flexible

Explanation

Question 11 of 15

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The American population between 1820 and 1840

Select one of the following:

  • became increasingly rural.

  • doubled.

  • grew fastest in the South.

  • was migrating westward.

  • was not growing as fast as the population of Europe.

Explanation

Question 12 of 15

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In the 1850s the foreign-born outnumbered those of native birth in all of the following cities except

Select one of the following:

  • Chicago.

  • Milwaukee.

  • New York City.

  • All of these choices are correct.

  • St. Louis.

Explanation

Question 13 of 15

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At the time it was completed, the Erie Canal was

Select one of the following:

  • already paid for.

  • the greatest construction project Americans had ever undertaken.

  • beginning to fill with silt from the Great Lakes.

  • already obsolete.

  • cited as an example of how not to construct a canal.

Explanation

Question 14 of 15

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One of the immediate results of the new transportation routes constructed during the “canal age” was

Select one of the following:

  • increased white settlement in the Southwest.

  • the conviction that the national government should be responsible for all internal improvements.

  • increased white settlement in the Northwest.

  • the renewed cooperation between states and the national government on internal improvement projects.

  • the dominance of steamboat transport.

Explanation

Question 15 of 15

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The most profound economic development in mid-nineteenth-century America was the

Select one of the following:

  • decline of American agriculture.

  • creation of corporations.

  • rise of the factory.

  • decline of the small-town merchant and general store.

  • development of a national banking system.

Explanation

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