Ch 9 Industrial Transformation in the North

How were the New England textile mills planned and built?

• Experienced British builders traveled to the United States to advise American merchants.

• New England merchants paid French and German mechanics to design factories for them.

• New England merchants and British migrants memorized plans from British mills.

• Textile mills were a purely American creation, invented by Francis Cabot Lowell in 1813.

Which is the best characterization of textile mill workers in the early nineteenth century?

• male and female indentured servants from Great Britain who worked hard to win their freedom

• young men who found freedom in the rowdy lifestyle of mill work

• experienced artisans who shared their knowledge in exchange for part ownership in the company

• young farm women whose behavior was closely monitored

Most people who migrated within the United States in the early nineteenth century went ________.

• north toward Canada

• west toward Ohio

• south toward Georgia

• east across the Mississippi River

Which of the following was not a cause of the Panic of 1819?

• The Second Bank of the United States made risky loans.

• States chartered too many banks.

• Prices for American commodities dropped.

• Banks hoarded gold and silver.

Robert Fulton is known for inventing ________.

• the cotton gin

• the mechanical reaper

• the steamship engine

• machine tools

Which of the following was not a factor in the transportation revolution?

• the steam-powered locomotive

• the canal system

• the combustion engine

• the government-funded road system

What was the significance of the Cumberland Road?

• It gave settlers a quicker way to move west.

• It reduced the time it took to move goods from New York Harbor to Lake Erie.

• It improved trade from the Port of New Orleans.

• It was the first paved road.

Which of the following groups supported the abolition of slavery?

• northern business elites

• southern planter elites

• wage workers

• middle-class northerners

Which social class was most drawn to amusements like P. T. Barnum’s museum?

• wage workers

• middle-class northerners

• southern planter elites

• northern business elites