Chapter 12, Industry and the North, 1790's-1840's Flashcards

Among the primary reasons that young farm women moved from the farm to work in textile mill towns in the early 19th century was:

The history of Lowell epitomizes this transition:

Which one of the following is NOT a traditional 18th century work habit?

A) Work in or near the home

B) A barter and mutual obligations system

C)Fixed production work schedule

D) Slow task oriented pace

E) Family apprenticeship system

In the pre-industrial system, a boy who wanted to learn a trade:

The organization of a family business in the pre-industrial era was:

Duncan Phyfe and Stephen Allen are both examples of artisans who:

If you live in Boston or Philadelphia from 1790-1807, and had accumulated tremendous amounts of capital, it was probably from:

As an early 1800's Cincinnati merchant, you were most likely to be financing:

A crucial aspect of the new putting-out system was:

Which of the following has the LEAST in common with the other four?

A) Central workshops

B) Per-piece wages

C) Putting-out system

D) Artisan tradition

E) Merchant capitalists

Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the putting-out system?

A) Merchant capitalists controlled production

B) Merchants thought in terms of national markets

C) Business owners controlled workers

D) Apprenticing became more important

E) Loss of independence for artisans

From the point of view of this group, the putting-out system seemed particularly beneficial.

The states of the old Northwest were largely settled by migrants from:

Which of the following has LEAST in common with the other four?

A) Slater's Mill

B) Industrial spying

C) Moses Brown

D) William Almy

E) Interchangeable parts

The Lowell mills employed primarily:

Francis Cabot Lowell and Paul Moody changed textile manufacturing with their invention of:

Which of the following was NOT true of family mills?

A) Children made up to 50% of workers

B)More than one worker per family was usually necessary

C) Almost 50% of the work force left each year

D) Rural farming communities welcomed mill communities

E) The economic benefits to the community were considerable

The British dubbed this "American system of manufactures":

Under the impact of industrialization, the proportion of wage laborers in the United States had risen from 12% in 1800 to THIS % in 1860:

The breakdown of the family work system may have had a liberating effect on:

Women were often pushed into this occupation because others were considered inappropriate:

The work style changes that occurred as factory production transformed the American economy included:

The term "free" labor originally referred to the:

Many of the first strikes in American labor history were led by:

One of the key goals of early unions likje the New England Female Labor Reform association was to have:

Lowell chapter leader Sarah Bagley defied convention not only by being a union leader, but also by:

When women workers refused to work after dark and petitioned their legislature, this state became the first to pass a ten-hour day law:

The major transformation in social order due to market revolution came in the lives of the:

Due to the market revolution, male children of artisans and farmers were more likely to be:

Which one of the following was NOT one of the expected attitudes and habits of the new economic order?

A) Employer-worker closeness

B) Hard work

C) Steadiness and sobriety

D) Responsibility

E) The discouragement of employee spontaneity

The religion that captured the attention of the new middle class in the early 1800's:

Charles and Lydia Finney were examples of the significance of this in the market revolution:

In the middle-class industrial household, "home" became:

Catherine Beecher's book Treatsie on Domestic Economy illustrated the need for:

The unsettling demands of the new industrial order forced changes in middle-class family life that resulted in:

The core of sentimentalism of the urban middle class developed from :

In his Walden, Henry David Thoreau

Domestic sources of capital for emergent American industry, in the early 19th century, included:

A) family connections

B) Southern cotton interests

C) local banks

D) large merchant interests

E) all of the above

Canals and railroads:

After the opening of the Erie Canal, the production of homespun clothing New York:

Which mode of transportation had the most dramatic impact on American economic life by 1850?

Beneficiaries of the putting-out system included:

A) traditional artisans

B) area merchants

C) farmers

D) B and C

E) all of the above

This individual left England illegally and brought his cotton spinning machine construction skills to the United States.

While Eli Whitney's role in developing the cotton gin is well known, he was also a pioneer in:

There were many difficulties for workers unaccustomed to factory work, but one they liked least and had the most trouble getting used to was:

Disdaining the mill workers for their poverty and transcience, rural community people called them:

You are an enterprising merchant in Cincinnati in 1816 with capital to invest. You are most likely to invest it successfully in:

Which one of the following is NOT one of the ways middle-class couples were likely to use to limit family size?

A) Condoms

B) Abstinence

C) Infrequent sexual activity

D) Coitus interruptus

E)Rhythm method

Which of the following was NOT likely to be a topic of women's sentimental novels in the early 1800's?

A) Religious feeling

B) Romantic love

C) Coping with difficulty

D) Caring family life

E) Protest against the competitive world

"I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all." Which of the following writers is most identified with this perspective?

The Embargo Act of _______ banning British manufacturers had a positive effect on American manufacturing.

In 1798, Eli Whitney contracts with the government for:

The first productive tariff in the United States is passed in ______.

Nationally, the proportion of wage laborers rose from 12% in 1800 to 40% in 1860. The majority were:

Which one of the following is the CORRECT chronological order of events?

1) Cotton gin invented

2) Slater's first textile mill opens

3) New England Female Labor Reform Association formed

4) Lowell builds his cotton textile factory

Charles G. Finney revivals are held in Rochester in _____.

While many states had cotton mills, the region with the greatest concentration of mills by 1839 was: