Review Market Rev

All of the following were major changes brought about by the Market Revolution EXCEPT:

• People moving from farms to factories

• Movement of homes in the country to home in the city

• Electricity in people’s homes

• Easier communication and transportation

The factory system made life easier because:

• It streamlined the process of creating goods

• It helped business owners speak directly with consumers

• It helped transport goods faster and easier

• It greatly reduced the number of hours individuals spent on farm labor

A high protective tariff passed by Congress is intended to affect the United States economy by

• promoting free trade
• limiting industrial jobs
• encouraging American manufacturing
• expanding global interdependence

What was a major reason that slavery expanded in the South in the first half of the 1800s?

• New inventions led to an increase in cotton production.
• The federal government encouraged the importation of enslaved persons.
• Most early textile mills were built in the South.
• Federal government regulations favored Southern exports.

One major effect of the cotton gin was

• The growth of slavery and the plantation system throughout the South

• A need for more skilled workers

• Tariffs on cotton production

• A move to push cotton production up north

Henry Clay's American System contained tariffs, a national bank, and what else?

• A nationwide system of roads and canals

• States to pay for roads

• More money for the plantation system

• The building of new agricultural equipment.

Canals like the Erie canal were use to do all of the following EXCEPT

• Connect the east to the west

• Connect bodies of water to oceans

• Move goods North to South

• Allow for cheaper transportation of goods

The factory system made life easier because:

• It streamlined the process of creating goods

• It helped business owners speak directly with consumers

• It helped transport goods faster and easier

• It greatly reduced the number of hours individuals spent on farm labor

What was NOT a factor that caused the Market Revolution?

• new methods of communication

• new organizations for work

• the baby boom

• new transportation

What was notable about the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts

• They used slave labor extensively unlike other mills which used indentured servants

• Workers only had six hour work days unlike the standard eight hour workdays

• The factory owner was a former slave and a great orator, Frederick Douglass

• Most of the workers were young women, who would work for less money