AP US History.. chapter 10
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In the 1820s and 1830s, railroads
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Played a relatively small rold in the nation's transportation system.
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As the Lowell factory system progressed into the 1840s,
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The owners increasingly used immigrants as their labor force.
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Before 1860, the development of machine tools by the United States government resulted in the
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Turret Lathe, universal milling machine, and precision grinder (all these answers are correct).
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The Erie Canal was
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A tremendous financial success.
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In most parts of the North, before the Civil War, free blacks could
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Compete for menial jobs.
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Before 1860, the largest single group of arriving Irish immigrants was
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Young, single women.
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Prior to 1860, the fastest-growing segment in American society was the
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Middle class.
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In the 1830s, limited liability laws were developed in the United States that
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Meant stockholders could not be charged with losses greater than their investment.
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Between 1840 and 1860, the overwhelming majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States came from
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Ireland and Germany.
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Before the 1830s, American corporations could be charted only by
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An act of Congress.
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The "Know Nothing" movement was partially directed at reducing the influence of
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Catholics.
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When the Lowell factory system began
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Workers were fairly well paid and lived in supervised dormitories.
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American factory workers in early nineteenth-century textile mills largely consisted of
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Families and rural, single women.
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By the middle of the nineteenth century, merchant capitalists in the United States
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Were shifting from trade to manufacturing.
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All of the following statements regarding American leisure activities prior to 1860 are true EXCEPT
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Unpaid vacations were becoming common among the middle class.
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The growth of commerce and industry allowed more Americans the chance to become prosperous without
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Owning land.
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In the 1840s, John Deere introduced significant improvements to the
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Plow.
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After 1852, the "Know-Nothings" created a new political organization called the
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American Party.
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The commercial and industrial growth in the United States prior to 1860 resulted in
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Increasing disparities in income between the rich and poor.
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In the 1830s, Cyrus McCormick improved grain farming when he patented his
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Reaper.
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In comparing turnpike transportation to canal transportation,
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Canal boats could haul vastly larger loads than could road transports.
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Before 1860, compared to Irish immigrants to the United States, German immigrants
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Generally arrived with more money.
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Prior to 1860, the social institution which most bound together rural Americans was the
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Church.
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The rise of the American factory system
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Led to the creation of skilled workingmen's craft societies.
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By 1860, as a result of the social expectations expressed in the "cult of domesticity,"
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Women became increasingly isolated from the public world.
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For most American farmers, the 1840s and 1850s was a period of
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Rising prosperity due to increased world demand for farm products.
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Compared to 1800, in 1860, urban American families
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Had a declining birth rate, were more likely to see their children leave home in search of work, and were more likely to see income earners work outside the home (all these answers are correct).
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By 1860, the energy for industrialization in the United States increasingly came from
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Coal.
