Cult of Domesticity
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
Factory System
Lowell System
Nativism
Erie Canal
Cyrus H. McCormick
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
Samuel F. B. Morse
Sarah Bagley
Howe and Singer
Charles Goodyear
The American population between 1820 and 1840
became increasingly rural.
doubled.
grew fastest in the South.
was migrating westward.
was not growing as fast as the population of Europe.
In the 1850s the foreign-born outnumbered those of native birth in all of the following cities except
Chicago.
Milwaukee.
New York City.
All of these choices are correct.
St. Louis.
At the time it was completed, the Erie Canal was
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.
One of the immediate results of the new transportation routes constructed during the “canal age” was
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.
The most profound economic development in mid-nineteenth-century America was the
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.