Unit 3 Pt. 1 Flashcards by Maya T

Which of the following was an outcome of the division of labor in early American shoe factories?

Increased output and cut price of shoes, demoted artisans to semiskilled wage laborers, eroded workers’ wages and independence, turned employers into powerful “shoe bosses”

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Which of the following was an outcome of the rural outwork system of manufacturing in the 1820s and 1830s?

Products not suited to be me made in the outwork system sparked the factory

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Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America?

Factory: concentrated production under one roof. Made when you cannot do things in the home. IE slaughterhouse (Cincinnati=Porkopolis)

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Around the 1830s, what new form of manufacturing emerged in America?

Factory

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By the 1830s, coal and metal manufacturers increasingly used which of the following to run machinery?

coal-burning stationary steam engines rather than water power

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Who was the English immigrant who secretly brought the design of the most advanced British machinery for spinning cotton to America in 1789?

Samuel Slater

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In the first half of the nineteenth century, American manufacturers’ main advantage over the British mills was that they had access to which of the following?

Britain depleted natural resources, but the US had large, unused natural resources

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In the early 1800s, British textile manufacturers had which of the following advantages over their American competitors?

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How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of the textile industry in the United States?

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Which of the following statements describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system?

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Which of these describes the experiences of the young women who worked in the New England textile mills in the 1820s and 1830s?

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How did Thomas Jefferson respond to the development of American manufacturing by the 1820s?

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Which American principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the American Industrial Revolution?

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The most critical contribution American mechanics made to the Industrial Revolution was the development of which of the following?

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Which of the following was an outcome of the American Industrial Revolution in the early nineteenth century?

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Which of the following was one of the ways that wageworkers strove to resist their bosses’ efforts to control their nonwork lives in the early to mid-nineteenth century?

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How did the spread of industrialization in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s affect skilled artisans?

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The concept that the price of a product should reflect the work required to make it is known as

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Who replaced the Lowell Mill workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved?

Immigrants **

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Which of these factors was the critical stimulus for the growth of domestic American markets in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following?

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Why did Congress approve funds for the construction of the National Road in 1806?

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For which of the following reasons did New York’s state government fund the building of the Erie Canal in 1817?

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How did the appearance of canals and steamboats in the United States affect the flow of goods and information during the 1830s?

The construction of the Erie Canal, the first great engineering project in American history, was successful for which of the following reasons?

The construction of the Erie Canal had which of the following negative consequences?

In the 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, the Marshall Court’s decision

Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the United States in the nineteenth century?

Which of these inventions spurred the growth of agriculture in the Midwest in the 1840s?

Which of the following factors explained the rapid growth of western cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New Orleans?

Which inventor is properly matched with the item he invented?

Through which of the following sources did the U.S. Treasury raise most of its revenue during the first half of the 1800s?

Which of these did elite Americans embrace after the Industrial Revolution in order to set themselves apart from other groups of Americans?

Which of the following Puritan ideas became a middle-class conviction with a secular twist during industrialization in the early 1800s?

Which of the following was the message of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, published in full in 1818?

Between 1820 and 1840, the economic conditions for casual day laborers in American cities changed in which of the following ways?

By the 1830s, most laborers in the urban Northeast lived in which type of residences?

How did middle-class reformers attempt to overcome disorder and lawlessness among urban wage earners in early nineteenth-century America?

Temperance societies*

To which of the following causes did Isabella Graham and Joanna Bethune contribute in the early nineteenth century?

Charles Grandison Finney found success as a young revivalist preacher in the 1820s by emphasizing which of the following issues in his sermons?

Which concept promoted by the Second Great Awakening reinforced its push for societal reform?

Which of the following statements describes workers’ approach to alcohol consumption in the 1820s?

Through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in effecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early nineteenth-century America?

Which of the following describes German immigrants who settled in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s?

Which of the following characterizes patterns of immigration into the United States during the 1840s and 1850s?

What killed thousands of poor immigrants in St. Louis and New York City in the summer of 1849?

During the 1840s and 1850s, Roman Catholic churches in the United States were known for

Roman Catholic immigration into the United States in the 1840s had which of the following effects?

Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America?

In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “It is a constant fact that at the present day the ablest men in the United States are rarely placed at the head of affairs.” To what did he attribute this phenomenon?

The common man voting. They voted for unintelligent people.

In what way was the United States more democratic than anywhere else in the world during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Allowed all white men to vote. Only nobility could vote in other places.

Which of the following statements characterizes the American political system directly after the American Revolution?

Why did several eastern states expand suffrage in the 1810s?

Politicians from modest backgrounds tended to support which of the following reforms in the 1810s?

What did bankers, land speculators, and entrepreneurs in the 1820s to the 1840s have in common?

What aspect of early nineteenth-century American government had the founders condemned as contrary to republican ideals?

Who is considered the first real politician, partly because he created the first statewide political machine?

The power of elected officials to grant government jobs to party members in return for their loyalty is known as which of the following systems?

Which of the following were the three key elements of Clay’s American system?

Correctly match the candidate in the 1824 presidential election with his description.

What did the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution specify should be done in an election like the election of 1824, in which no presidential candidate received a majority of the electoral votes?

Which of the following statements describes events surrounding the election of 1824?

As president, John Quincy Adams supported which of the following policies?

What was the outcome of President John Quincy Adams’ support of the Creeks in their treaty negotiations with the state of Georgia?

Andrew Jackson and his supporters won the election in 1828 in part by

Which of the following elements defined the Democrats under Andrew Jackson?

On whom did President Jackson rely for political advice?

How did President Andrew Jackson change the federal system of office holding?

In 1832, a South Carolina state convention committed which of the following actions?

The 1832 Ordinance of Nullification was based on which of the following beliefs?

The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, written by John C. Calhoun, bore a similarity to the argument made by which of the following people?

Compact theory by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

How did Andrew Jackson respond to South Carolina’s claimed right of nullification in 1832?

Sent an army

In the aftermath of the nullification crisis, President Jackson responded to southern concerns about the tariff by

Which of the following was the primary function of the Second Bank of the United States?

Which of the following statements characterizes the Second Bank of the United States in the 1830s?

Why did Andrew Jackson veto the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?

Which of the following arguments did President Jackson offer as a justification for destroying the Second Bank of the United States?

Which of the following statements describes Jackson’s veto of the bill rechartering the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?

Which of the following statements characterizes Andrew Jackson’s intentions toward Native Americans during his presidency?

Sequoyah developed which of the following to assimilate members of the Cherokee tribe into American life?

The Trail of Tears was the direct consequence of which of the following government actions?

What occurred during the Bad Axe Massacre of 1832?

In the U.S. Supreme Court case of Worcester v. Georgia (1832), John Marshall and the Court majority issued a decision that

Which of the following describes the ruling by the Roger B. Taney Supreme Court in Mayor of New York v. Miln?

In the landmark case of Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co. (1837), Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and the U.S. Supreme Court did which of the following?

In which of the following ways was Chief Justice Roger Taney different from his predecessor, John Marshall?

Which of the following statements describes the impact of the Jacksonian-era constitutional revolution on the states?

Most of the new state constitutions written between 1830 and 1860 did which of the following?

On which issue was the Whig philosophy of the 1830s critically different from that of the Federalists in the 1790s?

John C. Calhoun challenged the northern Whig economic ideology by arguing

Working Men’s Parties of the late 1820s and 1830s called for which of the following reforms?

In 1834, the Working Men’s Party persuaded the Pennsylvania legislature to do which of the following?

Which of the following developments spurred the Panic of 1837?

Which of the following laws required the Treasury department to accept only gold and silver in payment for purchases of federal land?

President Martin Van Buren responded to the Panic of 1837 by

Which of the following statements characterizes the presidential campaign of 1840?

In the election of 1840, Whigs boosted their electoral hopes by appealing to which of the following groups?

Which of the following describe John Tyler and his presidency?

Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?

Unit 3 Pt. 1 Flashcards

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