Quiz: Chapter 14

Samuel Slater is remembered as the:

• a. "Father of the Factory System"
• b. Inventor of the cotton gin
• c. Builder of the Erie Canal
• d. Inventor of the steamboat

Eli Whitney's cotton gin had the effect of:

• a. Deepening the South's reliance on cotton and slavery
• b. Ending slavery in the South
• c. Moving cotton production to the North
• d. Eliminating the need for cotton exports

The "Lowell system" refers to:

• a. Employing young farm women in supervised textile mills
• b. A canal transportation network
• c. A system of tariffs
• d. A banking policy

Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, first succeeded on the:

• a. Hudson River
• b. Mississippi River
• c. Erie Canal
• d. Ohio River

The Erie Canal, completed in 1825, connected the Great Lakes to the:

• a. Hudson River and New York City
• b. Mississippi River
• c. Gulf of Mexico
• d. Chesapeake Bay

By midcentury, canals were increasingly being outcompeted by:

• a. Railroads
• b. Horse-drawn wagons
• c. Airplanes
• d. Automobiles

In the 1840s, the largest immigrant groups to the U.S. were the Irish and:

• a. Germans
• b. Italians
• c. Chinese
• d. Mexicans

Hostility toward immigrants and Catholics in this era is known as:

• a. Nativism
• b. Federalism
• c. Nullification
• d. Abolitionism

The secretive nativist political party of the 1850s was known as the:

• a. Know-Nothing party
• b. Whig party
• c. Federalist party
• d. Free-Soil party

Cyrus McCormick's invention that boosted midwestern farm output was the:

• a. Mechanical reaper
• b. Cotton gin
• c. Steamboat
• d. Telegraph

By 1860, the "transportation revolution" had mainly resulted in:

• a. A national market with regional economic specialization
• b. Complete economic self-sufficiency for each state
• c. The end of slavery
• d. The decline of New York City

Which region specialized in cotton production by 1860?

• a. The South
• b. The Northeast
• c. The Old Northwest
• d. New England