Among the primary reasons that young farm women moved from the farm to work in textile mill towns in the early nineteenth century was __________. A) to save their families from economic collapse B) to escape unhappy marriages C) to escape farm life and earn wages D) to find husbands ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Francis Cabot Lowell and Paul Moody changed textile manufacturing with their invention of a(n) __________. A) power loom B) carding machine C) assembly line D) power sewing machine ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the simplest and quickest way for America to industrialize in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? A) copy British technology B) develop American technology C) import British raw materials D) focus on the iron-smelting industry ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
If you were a woman during the market revolution and mechanization had robbed you of spinning and weaving as a way of making money in the home, what other possibilities would you have had to consider? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: early factory life; gender roles; Lowell; rural life for […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
“Temperance” crusaders were concerned about the problems related to __________. A) prostitution B) excessive drinking C) immigration D) gambling ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Employment prospects for free black men living in northern cities __________ between 1820 and 1850. A) improved B) deteriorated C) skyrocketed D) all but disappeared ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Describe the typical German immigrant. What motivated this immigrant to leave Germany? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: political conditions in Germany; economic conditions in Germany; social and economic background of German immigrants; German immigrants and family; German immigrants and community
Date: September 9th, 2020
Generally pioneers traveling the Overland Trails in the 1840s and 1850s were __________. A) constantly attacked by Indians B) likely to experience very little dissension C) parts of organized westward-moving communities D) traveling alone for safety and speed ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania Democrat, proposed that __________. A) the United States incorporate all of Mexico into its borders B) each territory acquired from Mexico could make their own decisions about slavery C) the United States acquire Cuba from Spain D) slavery be banned from any territory acquired from Mexico ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Democrats tended to see industrialization as __________. A) a boon to the nation B) a threat to the nation C) a mixed blessing D) the key to the expansion of democracy ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
