APUSH Ch 14 quiz review

The experience of frontier life was especially difficult for

women.

As late as 1850, over one-half of the American population was

under the age of thirty.

The primary economic activity in the Rocky Mountain West before the Civil War was

fur-trapping.

Americans came to look on their spectacular western wilderness areas especially as

one of the things that defined and distinguished America as a new nation.

The American painter who developed the idea for a national park system was

George Catlin.

The two major sources of European immigration to America in the 1840s and 1850s were

Germany & Ireland.

One consequence of the influx of new immigrants was

an upsurge of anti-Catholicism.

Industrialization was at first slow to arrive in America because

there was a shortage of labor, capital, and consumers.

The first industry to be shaped by the new factory system of manufacturing was

textiles.

Wages for most American workers rose in the early 19th century, except for the most exploited workers like

women and children.

A major change affecting the American family in the early 19th century was

a decline in the average number pf children per household.

The first major improvement in the American transportation system came from

steamboats and highways.

The new regional "division of labor" created by improved transportation meant that

the South specialized in cotton, the West in grain & livestock, and the East in manufacturing.

"Limited liability" laws and the Supreme Court's decision prohibiting state gov'ts from granting "irrevocable charters" to corporations greatly aided

more entrepreneurial enterprises and greater market economies.

One major effect of industrialization was

a rise in the gap between the rich and poor.

American frontier's cultural emphasis on

rugged individualism

women who worked for wages were mostly

young and single

south, west, east specialized in

south - cotton
west - grain and livestock
east - manufacturing