front 1 Among the primary reasons that young farm women moved from the farm to work in textile mill towns in the early 19th century was: | back 1 D) To escape farm life and earn wages |
front 2 The history of Lowell epitomizes this transition: | back 2 E) Self-sufficient farm families to urban wageworkers. |
front 3 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 | back 3 C)Fixed production work schedule |
front 4 In the pre-industrial system, a boy who wanted to learn a trade: | back 4 A) Entered a formal apprenticeship system |
front 5 The organization of a family business in the pre-industrial era was: | back 5 E) Patriarchal |
front 6 Duncan Phyfe and Stephen Allen are both examples of artisans who: | back 6 D) Became wealthy and upset the social order |
front 7 If you live in Boston or Philadelphia from 1790-1807, and had accumulated tremendous amounts of capital, it was probably from: | back 7 E) International shipping |
front 8 As an early 1800's Cincinnati merchant, you were most likely to be financing: | back 8 C) Steamboat construction |
front 9 A crucial aspect of the new putting-out system was: | back 9 E) Division of labor |
front 10 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 | back 10 D) Artisan tradition |
front 11 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 | back 11 D) Apprenticing became more important |
front 12 From the point of view of this group, the putting-out system seemed particularly beneficial. | back 12 Farm families |
front 13 The states of the old Northwest were largely settled by migrants from: | back 13 D) New England |
front 14 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 | back 14 E) Interchangeable parts |
front 15 The Lowell mills employed primarily: | back 15 B) Women and children |
front 16 Francis Cabot Lowell and Paul Moody changed textile manufacturing with their invention of: | back 16 A) A power loom |
front 17 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 | back 17 D) Rural farming communities welcomed mill communities |
front 18 The British dubbed this "American system of manufactures": | back 18 C) Interchangeable parts |
front 19 Under the impact of industrialization, the proportion of wage laborers in the United States had risen from 12% in 1800 to THIS % in 1860: | back 19 C) 40% |
front 20 The breakdown of the family work system may have had a liberating effect on: | back 20 E) Farm women and children |
front 21 Women were often pushed into this occupation because others were considered inappropriate: | back 21 E) Garment trade |
front 22 The work style changes that occurred as factory production transformed the American economy included: | back 22 B) The regulation of work lives by bells and clocks |
front 23 The term "free" labor originally referred to the: | back 23 A) Right to move to another job |
front 24 Many of the first strikes in American labor history were led by: | back 24 D) Rural women workers |
front 25 One of the key goals of early unions likje the New England Female Labor Reform association was to have: | back 25 B) A ten-hour day |
front 26 Lowell chapter leader Sarah Bagley defied convention not only by being a union leader, but also by: | back 26 B) Directly addressing her state legislature |
front 27 When women workers refused to work after dark and petitioned their legislature, this state became the first to pass a ten-hour day law: | back 27 E) New Hampshire |
front 28 The major transformation in social order due to market revolution came in the lives of the: | back 28 D) Middling sort |
front 29 Due to the market revolution, male children of artisans and farmers were more likely to be: | back 29 A) White collar workers |
front 30 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 | back 30 A) Employer-worker closeness |
front 31 The religion that captured the attention of the new middle class in the early 1800's: | back 31 D) Incorporated an enthusiastic evangelistic approach to religious practice |
front 32 Charles and Lydia Finney were examples of the significance of this in the market revolution: | back 32 E) religious response to changing economic conditions |
front 33 In the middle-class industrial household, "home" became: | back 33 A haven for leisure and relaxation |
front 34 Catherine Beecher's book Treatsie on Domestic Economy illustrated the need for: | back 34 A) Helping middle-class women modernize their tasks and family role |
front 35 The unsettling demands of the new industrial order forced changes in middle-class family life that resulted in: | back 35 C) Fewer children in the average household |
front 36 The core of sentimentalism of the urban middle class developed from : | back 36 B) Nostalgia for imagined pre-industrial village security |
front 37 In his Walden, Henry David Thoreau | back 37 E) Questioned the spiritual cost of the market revolution |
front 38 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 | back 38 E) All of the above |
front 39 Canals and railroads: | back 39 A) spurred the development of towns and cities along their route. |
front 40 After the opening of the Erie Canal, the production of homespun clothing New York: | back 40 E) Declined rapidly |
front 41 Which mode of transportation had the most dramatic impact on American economic life by 1850? | back 41 D) the railroad |
front 42 Beneficiaries of the putting-out system included: A) traditional artisans B) area merchants C) farmers D) B and C E) all of the above | back 42 D) B and C (area merchants and farmers) |
front 43 This individual left England illegally and brought his cotton spinning machine construction skills to the United States. | back 43 E) Samuel Slater |
front 44 While Eli Whitney's role in developing the cotton gin is well known, he was also a pioneer in: | back 44 C) interchangeable parts |
front 45 There were many difficulties for workers unaccustomed to factory work, but one they liked least and had the most trouble getting used to was: | back 45 D) keeping to a precise time table |
front 46 Disdaining the mill workers for their poverty and transcience, rural community people called them: | back 46 A) operatives |
front 47 You are an enterprising merchant in Cincinnati in 1816 with capital to invest. You are most likely to invest it successfully in: | back 47 Steamboat industry |
front 48 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 | back 48 A) Condoms |
front 49 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 | back 49 A) religious feeling |
front 50 "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all." Which of the following writers is most identified with this perspective? | back 50 C) Ralph Waldo Emerson |
front 51 The Embargo Act of _______ banning British manufacturers had a positive effect on American manufacturing. | back 51 E)1807 |
front 52 In 1798, Eli Whitney contracts with the government for: | back 52 Production rifles with interchangeable parts |
front 53 The first productive tariff in the United States is passed in ______. | back 53 C) 1816 |
front 54 Nationally, the proportion of wage laborers rose from 12% in 1800 to 40% in 1860. The majority were: | back 54 E) In new England |
front 55 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 | back 55 E) 2,1,4,3 Slater's textile mill opens, Cotton gin invented, Lowell builds his cotton textile factory, New England Female Labor Reform Association formed |
front 56 Charles G. Finney revivals are held in Rochester in _____. | back 56 C) 1830 |
front 57 While many states had cotton mills, the region with the greatest concentration of mills by 1839 was: | back 57 E) New England |