Ch 11. Industry and Reform in the North, 1820 - 1850

Which of the following significantly contributed to the inefficiency of railroads in the United States prior to the Civil War?

varied gauges

If free labor was the opposite of slavery, advocates of republican theory argued, then wage labor employment had to come along with

social values and virtues.

Workers tried to persuade their employers to fulfill their social and moral commitments with all of the following techniques, EXCEPT:

hunger strikes

By the 1850s, new journals taught farm families of New England and the Mid-Atlantic how to be

scientific farmers.

Which of the following developments became noticeable in American public entertainment and culture in the 1840s?

Separate theaters for upper and lower classes emerged.

Which product made the blacksmiths of the 1840s so important to economic development?

machine parts

What share of an average laborer's wages went to feed his family in 1840s cities in the United States?

66 percent

Robert Owen, the leader of the New Harmony colony in the 1820s can best be described as a Scottish

intellectual-industrialist.

Which of the following allowed Samuel F.B. Morse to prove the viability of his new telegraph technology in 1844?

federal funding

Between 1847 and 1854, approximately how many Irish immigrants entered the United States each year?

150,000

Initially, Lowell textile factories tried to recruit country girls with all of the following benefits, EXCEPT:

calm and restful weekends

Which decade saw the town of Chicago turn from a sleepy village to a boomtown?

1850s

Approximately how many gallons of distilled spirits did Americans drink by 1830 per person?

5

Which of the following was the work of Lyman Beecher's daughter Catharine?

Treatise on Domestic Economy

Which New York institution came to stand for the alliance between immigrants and the political machine?

Tammany Hall