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15 Cards in this Set
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What improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?
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canals and steamboats
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What was the significance of Robert Fulton?
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His work in designing steamboats made upstream commerce possible.
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Squatters:
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set up farms on unoccupied land.
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The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was:
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textiles.
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What problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?
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Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive.
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What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?
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cotton
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How did the market revolution affect the lives of artisans?
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Gathered in factories, they faced constant supervision and the breakdown of craftsmanship into specialized tasks.
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In Gibbons v. Ogden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
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New York could not grant a monopoly on steamboat navigation between New York and New Jersey.
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According to John O’Sullivan, the “manifest destiny” of the United States to occupy North America could be traced to:
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a divine mission.
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Henry David Thoreau believed that:
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genuine freedom lay within the individual.
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Because an English law forbade the export of machinery blueprints, Samuel Slater memorized the plans for the power-driven spinning jenny before immigrating to America.
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True
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Expanding westward was connected to American freedom.
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True
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Irish immigrants tended to be more skilled than the German immigrants arriving around the same time.
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False
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The Second Great Awakening both took advantage of the market revolution and criticized its excesses.
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True
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One significant way that blacks were able to enjoy economic independence was by settling in the West on federally provided public land.
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False
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