Chapter 14 Review

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

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

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 manufacturing

• 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

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

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

The two leading sources of European immigration to America in the 1840s and 1850s were

• France and Italy
• Germany and France
• Germany and Ireland
• Ireland and Norway

All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in early nineteenth-century America except

• the push west in search of cheap land.

• government regulation of all major economic activity.

• a vast number of European immigrants settling in the cities.

• newly invented machinery.

In early-nineteenth-century America, the

• urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate.

• birthrate was rapidly declining.

• U.S. had become the most populous nation in the western world.

• death rate was increasing.

German immigrants in the early 19th-century tended to

• settle in eastern industrial cities.

• become slave-owners.

• join the temperance movement.

• preserve their own language and culture.