Market Revolution Review

Which of the following was NOT a result of the growth of a national market economy between 1815 and 1860 ?

• The application of machinery to the mass production of goods

• A greater disparity of wealth between rich and poor Americans

• Movement toward wage labor

• A greater number of men working at home

Which of the following best explains a change in migration in United States society during the early 1800s?

• The claims to land by American Indian groups prevented the migration of White settlers westward.

• The system of indentured servitude allowed Europeans living in poverty to immigrate to North America.

• The rise in manufacturing in the North coincided with an increase of immigration from abroad to these urban areas.

• The increased importance of Southern cotton coincided with substantial immigration from abroad to the region.

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

• young unmarried women from rural New England

• newly arrived immigrants form Ireland

• men who were heads of households

• free African Americans form urban areas

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

• seacoast cities of the South

• city areas of the North

• California

• Appalachia

Which of the following explains how the growth of a market-based economy in the United States in the early 1800s most directly influenced changes in gender roles?

• As both men and women took paid employment, social and political inequality between the sexes declined significantly.

• As an economy based on commercial transactions encouraged woman to stop marrying

• As home and the workplace became separated, women were increasingly expected to be responsible for housework and childcare

• As working for wages became more common, many people ceased to view the family as important

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 availability of goods

• The formation of strong labor unions

• The continued growth of home labor and cottage industries

The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly

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

• depended on immigrant labor

• produced tobacco and sugar rather than cotton

• diversified, with more industry and more mechanized agriculture

Which industry dominated America prior to 1800s?

• farming

• industry

• service

• merchant

What is the significance of the cotton gin?

• decreased the need for slavery in the South

• becomes the primary crop of the South

• decreased wealth in Northern states

• none of the above

Manufacturing was concentrated in which region of the country?

• South

• Midwest

• New England

• Canada