Chapter 8 Quiz: Questions And Answers

In a stable and structured environment like the one provided by Lowell Mills, what became a major problem by the middle 1830s?

The major impetus for the huge Irish immigration to the United States after 1845 was:

Anti-Irish prejudice was especially based upon:

The Know-Nothings campaigned primarily to:

Steamboats:

Jefferson's embargo in 1807 and the War of 1812:

By the 1850s, a communications revolution had been triggered by the development of the:

The cotton gin's invention:

Cyrus McCormick's grain reapers:

Antebellum minstrel shows:

The Know-Nothings party:

The advantage clipper ships had over traditional merchant vessels was their:

All of the following encouraged migration to the West, EXCEPT:

The various workingmen's parties wanted:

The Erie Canal did all of the following, EXCEPT:

One striking aspect of the Lowell factories was:

The most popular form of indoor entertainment in the first half of the nineteenth century was:

In what way did women NOT remain within the home?

By the 1850s, railroads had begun to receive encouragement from the federal government in the form of:

German immigrants in the 1850s: