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

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Agrarian to Industrial, Rural to Urban
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Questão 1

Questão
Cult of Domesticity
Responda
  • 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

Questão 2

Questão
Factory System
Responda
  • 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

Questão 3

Questão
Lowell System
Responda
  • 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

Questão 4

Questão
Nativism
Responda
  • 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

Questão 5

Questão
Erie Canal
Responda
  • 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

Questão 6

Questão
Cyrus H. McCormick
Responda
  • 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

Questão 7

Questão
Samuel F. B. Morse
Responda
  • 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

Questão 8

Questão
Sarah Bagley
Responda
  • 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

Questão 9

Questão
Howe and Singer
Responda
  • 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

Questão 10

Questão
Charles Goodyear
Responda
  • 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

Questão 11

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

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

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

Questão 14

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

Questão 15

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