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The expansion of a market economy in the early nineteenth century is reflected in which of the following? The decline of the slave system in the South, The improvement of transportation and the availability of goods, The formation of strong labor unions, The development of Assembly line production

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The improvement of transportation and the availability of goods

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The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly

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produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry

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Which of the following describes “the Lowell system” in early nineteenth-century New England? A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities by primarily employing young women, An agreement among the New England states to secede and for a New England confederacy, A reform eliminating property-holding as a qualification for voting, A strategy to defend New England during the War of 1812

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A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities by primarily employing young women

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Which transportation developments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830? Options: Railroads and steamships, Turnpikes and railroads, Turnpikes and canals, Canals and railroads

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Turnpikes and canals

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Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

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urban areas of the North

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One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was

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the separation of economic production from the home and family life

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All of the following were true for American women in the early nineteenth-century except:
- marriages arranged by parents became less common
- the home was widely considered the appropriate place for a woman
- childrearing was still seen as the primary duty of a woman

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married women often worked in factories, like the Lowell textile mills.

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In the early 1830’s, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were

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young unmarried women from rural New England

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Which of the following describes the American System of Manufacturing? A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities, An agreement among the New England states to secede and for a New England confederacy, A system that focused on the use of interchangeable parts and mechanization to make methods of production more efficient, A system that focused on creating a variety of different, hand-made products inside of individual homes. This is also known as the domestic system

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A system that focused on the use of interchangeable parts and mechanization to make methods of production more efficient

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A Labor Union

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is an organization of workers formed to protect and further the rights of workers