Extra Quiz: Chapter 14
1. By 1860, the American "center of population" had shifted mainly into the:
2. Samuel Slater built America's first successful factory in:
3. Slater's factory technology had been:
4. Eli Whitney's cotton gin was invented in the year:
5. Besides the cotton gin, Eli Whitney is also known for pioneering:
6. The Lowell mills primarily employed:
7. Early attempts to form labor unions were often treated by courts as:
8. Robert Fulton's steamboat was named the:
9. The Erie Canal was built and funded by:
10. The Erie Canal's completion mainly benefited the port city of:
11. Compared to canals, railroads offered the key advantage of:
12. Railroads increasingly bound the Old Northwest economically to the:
13. Irish immigrants in the 1840s were fleeing primarily:
14. Most Irish immigrants settled in:
15. German immigrants of this era tended to settle more often in the:
16. Nativist hostility in this period was directed largely against immigrants who were:
17. The Know-Nothing party got its name because members:
18. Cyrus McCormick's reaper mainly helped mechanize the production of:
19. Thanks to new farm machinery, the "breadbasket" of the nation became the:
20. The "cult of domesticity" held that a woman's proper role centered on:
21. As the North industrialized, the South's economy became more dependent on:
22. Which region primarily specialized in manufacturing by 1860?
23. The overall economic transformation of this era is often called the:
24. Steamboats were especially valuable for trade on:
25. Overall, the transportation and market revolutions of 1790–1860 tended to:
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