Quiz 8: The Market Revolution

Business corporations were new innovations in the 19^th century. 

t

Nineteenth century Americans believed in separate spheres, where women worked outside the home and men stayed in the private sphere taking care of the home. 

f

Land and railroad speculations helped cause economic depressions in the 1800s. 

t

The majority of Northern slaveholders voluntarily freed their slaves. 

f

German immigrants largely settled in Midwestern cities like Cincinnati. 

t

The market revolution was fueled by slave labor. 

t

Free African Americans could vote in some states

t

The Erie Canal connected which two bodies of water?

lake erie and the hudson river

Which was an important innovation in communication in the mid-19^th century? 

telegraph

By the Civil War, America had over 30,000 miles of railroad. 

t

Irish immigrants primarily moved to the South, where they took jobs in agriculture. 

f

American agriculture after the American Revolution was purely subsistence farming, with no surplus being produced.

f

By the Civil War, over 10% of the United States’ population had been born outside the country. 

t

The slave population decreased between 1800 and 1820.

f

Railroads were built more quickly in the South than in other regions of the country. 

f