AP US History
Ch. 12
1) Among the primary reasons that young farm women moved from the farms to work in textile mill towns in the early 19th century was:
To escape farm life and earn wages
2) The history of Lowell epitomizes this transition:
Self-sufficient farm families to urban wageworkers
3)In the pre-industrial system, a boy who wanted to learn a trade
Entered a formal apprenticeship system
4)The organization of a family business in the pre-industrial era was
Patriarchal
5) If you lived in Boston or Philadelphia from 1790-1807 and had accumulated tremendous amounts of capital, it was probably from
International shipping
6) The states of the Old Northwest were largely settled by migrants from
New England
7)The work style changes that occurred as factory production transformed the American economy included
The regulation of work lives by clocks and bells
8) Catherine Beecher’s book Treatsie on Domestic Economy illustrated the need for
Helping middle-class women modernize their tasks and family role
9) A crucial aspect of the new putting-out system was
Division of labor
10) The Lowell mills employed primarily
Women and children
11) The British dubbed this “the American system of manufactures”:
Interchangeable parts
12) The term “free” labor originally reffered to the
Right to move to another job
13)Many of the first strikes in American labor history were led by
Rural women workers.
14) In his Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Questioned the spiritual cost of the market revolution
15) Canals and railroads spurred the development of towns and cities along their route
16) Which mode of transportation had the most dramatic impact on American economic lide by 1850? railroad 17) This individual left England illegally and brought his cotton spinning machine constriction skills to the United States:
Samuel Slater
18) While Eli Whitney’s role in developing the cotton gin is well known, he was also a pioneer in
Interchangeable parts
19) Which one of the
1) Among the primary reasons that young farm women moved from the farms to work in textile mill towns in the early 19th century was:
To escape farm life and earn wages
2) The history of Lowell epitomizes this transition:
Self-sufficient farm families to urban wageworkers
3)In the pre-industrial system, a boy who wanted to learn a trade
Entered a formal apprenticeship system
4)The organization of a family business in the pre-industrial era was
Patriarchal
5) If you lived in Boston or Philadelphia from 1790-1807 and had accumulated tremendous amounts of capital, it was probably from
International shipping
6) The states of the Old Northwest were largely settled by migrants from
New England
7)The work style changes that occurred as factory production transformed the American economy included
The regulation of work lives by clocks and bells
8) Catherine Beecher’s book Treatsie on Domestic Economy illustrated the need for
Helping middle-class women modernize their tasks and family role
9) A crucial aspect of the new putting-out system was
Division of labor
10) The Lowell mills employed primarily
Women and children
11) The British dubbed this “the American system of manufactures”:
Interchangeable parts
12) The term “free” labor originally reffered to the
Right to move to another job
13)Many of the first strikes in American labor history were led by
Rural women workers.
14) In his Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Questioned the spiritual cost of the market revolution
15) Canals and railroads spurred the development of towns and cities along their route
16) Which mode of transportation had the most dramatic impact on American economic lide by 1850? railroad 17) This individual left England illegally and brought his cotton spinning machine constriction skills to the United States:
Samuel Slater
18) While Eli Whitney’s role in developing the cotton gin is well known, he was also a pioneer in
Interchangeable parts
19) Which one of the