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

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Agrarian to Industrial, Rural to Urban
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Pregunta 1

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Cult of Domesticity
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 2

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Factory System
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 3

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Lowell System
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 4

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Nativism
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  • 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

Pregunta 5

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Erie Canal
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 6

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Cyrus H. McCormick
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  • 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

Pregunta 7

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Samuel F. B. Morse
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 8

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Sarah Bagley
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 9

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Howe and Singer
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  • 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

Pregunta 10

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Charles Goodyear
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 11

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The American population between 1820 and 1840
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  • became increasingly rural.
  • doubled.
  • grew fastest in the South.
  • was migrating westward.
  • was not growing as fast as the population of Europe.

Pregunta 12

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In the 1850s the foreign-born outnumbered those of native birth in all of the following cities except
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  • Chicago.
  • Milwaukee.
  • New York City.
  • All of these choices are correct.
  • St. Louis.

Pregunta 13

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At the time it was completed, the Erie Canal was
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  • 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.

Pregunta 14

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

Pregunta 15

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