Gml 9 Tf

Front 1

During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth.

Back 1

True

Front 2

With the Second Great Awakening, American Christianity became more hierarchical and out of touch with the common folk.

Back 2

False

Front 3

Workingmen formed political parties in the late 1820s and among the goals of these ephemeral political parties were free public education, an end to imprisonment for debt, and a ten-hour workday.

Back 3

True

Front 4

Ely Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin improved the lives of millions of African-Americans.

Back 4

False

Front 5

In the nineteenth century, a married woman could not legally sign independent contracts; she could not sue someone in court in her own name; and not until after the Civil War could she, not her husband, control the wages she earned.

Back 5

True

Front 6

In the nineteenth century, barred from schools and other facilities, free black Americans constructed their own institutional life, centered on churches, educational and mutual aid societies.

Back 6

True

Front 7

According to Alexis de Tocqueville, Americans believed that they were the only "enlightened" and "free" people in the world.

Back 7

True

Front 8

Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of Walden.

Back 8

False

Front 9

The rise of the corporation was crucial to the success of the market economy.

Back 9

True

Front 10

By the 1840s, most working people outside the South toiled in large factories.

Back 10

False

Front 11

From the 1830s to the 1850s, Americans were largely a sedentary lot who lived out their lives in the locale in which they were born.

Back 11

False

Front 12

The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution.

Back 12

False

Front 13

Cotton gin was a beverage invented by Eli Whitney.

Back 13

False

Front 14

As a consequence of the expansive growth in the U.S. economy associated with the market revolution, skilled free black workers found their status and incomes rising.

Back 14

False

Front 15

America’s early factories drew largely upon the labor of women and children.

Back 15

True

Front 16

The market revolution in the nineteenth-century United States produced dynamic and expansive growth in the nation’s output and in trade and a rising standard of living for millions of Americans.

Back 16

True

Front 17

In Thoreau’s view, the market revolution degraded both people’s values and the natural environment.

Back 17

True

Front 18

Cincinnati was known as Porkopolis because of its slaughterhouses, in which hundreds of thousands of pigs were butchered each year.

Back 18

True

Front 19

Free blacks were largely denied access to the material opportunities generated by the market revolution.

Back 19

True

Front 20

The distribution of wealth was fairly even in the nineteenth-century United States.

Back 20

False

Front 21

Millions of Americans’ lives were improved by the nineteenth century market revolution.

Back 21

True

Front 22

For the expanding middle class it became a badge of respectability for wives to remain at home.

Back 22

True

Front 23

The common nineteenth-century view was that men are naturally aggressive, rational, and domineering, while women are naturally nurturing, selfless, and ruled by emotions.

Back 23

True

Front 24

Industrialization, a key element in the dynamic and expansive growth of the market economy, was most notable in the northeastern United States.

Back 24

True

Front 25

There was a rapid decline in the birthrate during the course of the nineteenth century such that from an average of seven children per family, by 1900 women on average had four children.

Back 25

True

Front 26

The largest group of immigrants to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s came from Ireland, then in the throes of the great potato famine.

Back 26

True

Front 27

Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money.

Back 27

True

Front 28

Some women served as preachers in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Back 28

True

Front 29

With the market revolution, the artisanal workshop gave way to relentless pressure for greater output and lower wages.

Back 29

True

Front 30

The market revolution swept over the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Back 30

True

Front 31

Expanding networks of toll roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads were essential to the take-off of the market revolution.

Back 31

True

Front 32

In Commonwealth v. Hunt, Massachusetts chief justice Lemuel Shaw decreed that there was nothing inherently illegal in workers organizing a union or a strike.

Back 32

False