Exam 10: America’s Economic Revolution

The recruitment of young women to work and live in a factory setting was called the ________ or Waltham system.

The Massachusetts court case of Commonwealth v.Hunt (1842)declared that

The great majority of Irish immigrants settled in the

The American Museum that showcased human oddities was opened by ________.

In 1860,the percentage of the population in the South living in towns (places of 2,500 or more)or cities (8,000 or more)was

Railroads played a relatively minor role in American transportation during the 1820s and 1830s.

Describe the major features of American middle-class life during the first half of the nineteenth century.

The first American cooperative news gathering organization was called the ________.

When the Lowell factory system began,

By 1860,the energy for industrialization in the United States increasingly came from

Prior to 1860,perhaps the most significant invention for middle-class American homes was the

In the 1830s,Cyrus McCormick improved grain farming when he patented his

The most profound economic development in mid-nineteenth-century America was the rise of the ________.

Before 1860,American middle-class families

Many of the free blacks in the North were people who had been skilled crafts workers as slaves and who bought or were given their freedom.

By 1860,over half of the manufacturing establishments in the United States were located west of the Mississippi River.

In most parts of the North,before the Civil War,free blacks could

Between 1800 and 1830,immigration to the United States

Corporate development was aided by laws permitting a system of ________ for individual stockholders.

The first railroad company actually to begin operations was the ________.