American Pageant Chapter 14 Quiz APUSH

In early nineteenth-century America, almost all of the women who worked for wages in the new factories were

• young and single
• middle aged
• skilled workers
• Irish or German immigrants

Wages for most American workers rose in the early nineteenth century, except for the most exploited workers like

• immigrants and westerners
• textile and transportation workers
• women and children
• single men and women

One major effect of industrialization was a(n)

• increasing economic equality among all citizens
• increasingly stable labor force
• rise in ethnic tensions
• rise in the gap between rich and poor

Free incorporation laws, limited liability laws, and the Supreme Court's decision prohibiting states governments from granting irrevocable charters to corporation all greatly aided

• private American colleges' ability to compete with state universities
• established business with large capital investments
• Americans' ability to compete with cheap British imports
• more entrepreneurial enterprises and greater market competition

The new regional division of labor created by improved transportation meant that the South specialized in

• cotton, the West in grain and livestock, and the East in grain and livestock
• manufacturing, the West in transportation, and the East in grain and livestock
• cotton, the West in manufacturing, and the East in finance
• grain and livestock, the West in cotton, and the East in transporation

The greatest economic and political impact of New York's Erie Canal was to

• make upstate New York the new center of American agriculture
• delay the development of railroads by several decades
• tie the agricultural Midwest by trade to the Northeast rather than to the South
• make to Ohio and Mississippi Rivers the primary paths of inland transportation

A major change affecting the American family in the early nineteenth century was

• the rise of an organized feminist movement
• the movement of most women into the work force
• increased conflict between parents and children over moral questions
• a decline in the average number of children per household

The first industry to be substantially dominated by the new factory system of mass manufacturing was the

• shipbuilding industry
• agricultural implement industry
• iron-making industry
• textile industry

Industrialization was, at first, slow to arrive in America because

• there was a shortage of labor, capital and consumers
• low tariff rates invited foreign imports
• the country lacked a patent system to guarantee investors the profits from new machines
• most American consumer preferred hand-crafted goods

Many nineteenth-century Americans feared and distrusted Roman Catholicism because

• American Catholics had been Loyalists during the American Revolution
• French-Canadian Catholics were largely poor and uneducated
• it was seen as a strange foreign religion under total control of an authoritarian pope
• they disliked the Catholic belief in the Virgin Mary as the mother of Jesus