Antebellum America

What term refers to a period before a war and which, in U.S. history, has commonly been used to describe the pre-Civil War period?

• industrialization

• cult of honor

• antebellum

• nativism

Why was cotton referred to as "King" by the 1830s in America?

• The growing of cotton had arisen from a command by King William IV of England

• Cotton was a multi-purpose product that boosted the supply of food, clothing, and building materials

• Cotton production represented the United States' number one commodity for domestic use and export

• High levels of cotton was grown in every section of the U.S., North, South, and West

What is a belief in the superiority of native-born inhabitants over immigrants, in particular, an anti-immigrant movement that began in the early 1800s in the U.S.?

• nativism

• racism

• discrimination

• xenophobia

Identify the constructed waterway that connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and transformed New York into an economic powerhouse of the young United States:

• Hudson Canal

• Panama Canal

• Erie Canal

• Ohio River

According to the 1860 census, the American economy had greater total investments in ____________ than in any other commodity.

• railroads

• banks

• factories

• slaves

What is the oldest railroad in the United States, originally built to help Maryland compete with canals in other states?

• Short Line Railroad

• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

• Annapolis & Louisville Railroad

• Bethesda Trans-Appalachian Railroad

What is the system, designed by the inventor of the telegraph, of long and short electrical bursts that made the telegraph network a viable, long-distance communication system?

• Morse code

• Semaphore

• Bell Telephone

• Radio waves

Name the method of manufacturing involving powered machinery, usually run by water, that allowed the use of unskilled labor and greater output than in the artisan tradition:

• apprenticeship system

• factory system

• American system

• Lowell system

Which term refers to the process of a society changing from predominantly agricultural production to a society based on factory production?

• commodification

• commercialization

• globalization

• industrialization

What factory system was used to mass-produce textiles, primarily in New England, that relied on young women workers who lived in factory communities?

• American system

• factory system

• Lowell system

• industrial system