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WorksheetsMarket Revolution Review
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
Which technology in the 1850s would replace the earlier canals as the leading innovation in transportation?
Horse and Buggy
the airplane
Railroad
Running
The concentration of railroads and canals would be found where during the market revolution?
North
South
West
Mexica
