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life on the frontier was

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downright grim for most pioneer families

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pioneering americans marooned by geography

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became provincial in the attitudes

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in early-nineteenth-century american

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the urban population was growing at an unexpected rate

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the dramatic growth of american cities between 1800 and 1860

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resulted in unsanitary conditions in many communities

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"ecological imperialism" can be best described as

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the aggressive exploitation of the west's bounty

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george caitlin advocated

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the preservation of nature as a nationalist party

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the influx of immigrants to the U.S trippled, then quadrupled in the

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1840s and 1850s

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irelands great export in the 1840s was

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people

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the irish immigrants to early nineteenth century america

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were mostly roman catholics

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when the irish flocked to the us in the 1840s they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they

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were too poor to move west and buy land

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when the "famine irish" came to america

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they mostly remained in the port cities of the north east

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native born protestant americans distrusted and resented the irish mostly because these immigrants

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were roman catholic

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german immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to

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support public schools

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german immigrants to the us

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left their homeland to escape ecomonic hardships and autocratic government

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when german immigrants came to the us they

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prospered with astonishing ease

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those who were frightened by the rapid influx of irish immigrants organized

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the order of the star spangled banner

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the sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called

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nativism

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native-born americans feared that catholic immigrants to the u.s would

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"establish" the catholic church at the expense of protestantism

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immigrants coming to the us before 1860

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helped fuel economic expansion

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the father of the factory system in the us. was

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samuel slater

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eli whitney was instrumental in the invention of the

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cotton gin

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most of the cotton produced in the american south in the early nineteenth century was

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sold to england

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the american phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed

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with textile mills

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as a result of the development of the cotton gin

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slavery revived and expanded

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the underlying basis for modern mass production was the

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use of interchangeable parts

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the early factory system distributed its benefits

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mostly to the owners

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what did samuel F.B. Morse invent? what about cyrus mccormick or robert fulton?

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S- telegraph C- mower-reaper R- Steamboat

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the american work force in the early 19th century was characterized by

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substantial employment of women and children in the factories

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one reason that the lot of adult wage earners improved was

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the enfranchisement of the laboring men

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in the case of commonwealth vs. hunt the supreme court of mass. ruled that

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labor unions were legal

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the "cult of domesticity"

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glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers

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early 19th century american families

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were getting smaller

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one of the goals of the child centered family of the 1800s was to

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raise independent individuals

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the effect of early 19th century industrialization of the trans-allegheny west was to encourage

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specialized cash-crop agriculture

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with the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans alegheny west

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farmers quickly faced mounting indebtedness

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the first major transportation project linking the east to the trans-allegheny west was

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lancaster turnpike

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western road building faced all of the following problems except

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competition from canals

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the major application for steamboats transporting freight and passengers in the us was on

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western and southern rivers

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the canal era of american history began with the construction of the

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erie canal

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construction of the erie canal

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forced some new england farmers to move or change occupations

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most early railroads in the us were built in the

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north

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compared with canals railroads

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could be built almost anywhere

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in the new continental economy each region specialized in a particular economic activity: the south __________ for export; the west grew grains and livestock to feed __________; and the east _______ for the other two regions

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grew cotton, eastern factory workers, made machines and textiles

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as a result of the transportation revolution

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each regions in the nation specialized in a particular type of economic activity

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in general, _____________ tended to bind the west and south together, while ___________ and ________________ connected the west to east

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steamboats, canals, railroads

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as the new continental market economy grew

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the home came to be viewed as a refugee from the workday world

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a major economic consequence of the transportation and marketing revolutions was

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the declining significance of american agriculture

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