APUSH P4 CQ #2 4.5-4.6

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 the availability of goods

• The formation of strong labor unions

• The development of Assembly line production

The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly

• diversified, with more industry and more mechanized agriculture

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

• depended on immigrant labor

• depended on the North for raw material.s

Which of the following describes “the Lowell system” in early nineteenth-century New England?

• A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities by primarily employing young women

• An agreement among the New England states to secede and for a New England confederacy

• A reform eliminating property-holding as a qualification for voting

• A strategy to defend New England during the War of 1812

Which of the following transportation developments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830?

• Railroads and steamships

• Turnpikes and railroads

• Turnpikes and canals

• Canals and railroads

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

• urban areas of the North

• seacoast cities of the south

• rural sections of the Old Northwest

• California

One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was

• its members’ tendency to be tolerant of religious diversity

• the separation of economic production from the home and family life

• the fact that almost all middle-class men attended graduate and professional schools

• the fact that most married women worked outside the home to provide income for their families

All of the following were true for American women in the early nineteenth-century except

• married women often worked in factories, like the Lowell textile mills.

• marriages arranged by parents became less common

• the home was widely considered the appropriate place for a woman

• childrearing was still seen as the primary duty of a woman

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

• young unmarried women from rural New England

• newly arrived immigrants form Ireland

• free African Americans form urban areas

• men who were heads of households

Which of the following describes the American System of Manufacturing?

• A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities

• An agreement among the New England states to secede and for a New England confederacy

• A system that focused on the use of interchangeable parts and mechanization to make methods of production more efficient

• A system that focused on creating a variety of different, hand-made products inside of individual homes. This is also known as the domestic system

A Labor Union

• is an organization consisting of representatives from workers and owners of a particular company

• is an organization of workers formed to protect and further the rights of workers

• is an agreeement signed by two sides in a dispute involving workers and owners

• is an agreement between two workers to complete a job within a certain time limit and other parameters