Which group of women was most likely to work outside of the home in antebellum America?
a. Poor women
b. Middle class women
c. Upper class women
d. Very few women worked outside of the home, regardless of class - ANSWER A.
Irish immigrants to the United States typically settled in what areas?
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Which group of women was most likely to work outside of the home in antebellum America?
a. Poor women
b. Middle class women
c. Upper class women
d. Very few women worked outside of the home, regardless of class - ANSWER A.
Irish immigrants to the United States typically settled in what areas?
a. Northeastern cities
b. Midwestern farming communities
c. Southern cities
d. Backcountry rural communities - ANSWER A.
Germans settled in an area of the country known as the German Triangle. The triangle
included all three of these cities EXCEPT
a. Milwaukee
b. Detroit
c. Cincinnati
,d. St. Louis - ANSWER B.
The nativist "Know-Nothing Party," also known as the American Party, was strongest in what
region?
a. The South
b. Northern cities
c. Midwestern rural communities
d. Mississippi River Valley - ANSWER B.
In the 1840s the New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics and Other Workingmen
organized to agitate for what cause?
a. To gain access to public education
b. To create public healthcare options
c. To limit the workday to ten hours per day
d. To ban child labor - ANSWER C.
The Erie Canal created a system of interlocking canals that ran from the? - ANSWER
Hudson River to Lake Erie
Which type of cotton was hardy and grew prolifically in the upland areas but contained
rough seeds that took hours to separate from the fibers? - ANSWER Short-Staple Cotton
Who invented the cotton gin (short for cotton engine) that mechanically separated the cotton
fibers and seeds? - ANSWER Eli Whitney
The Old Northwest consisted of all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Ohio
B. Indiana
, C. Illinois
D. Oregon
E. Michigan
F. Wisconsin - ANSWER D. Oregon
The people settling in the Old Northwest worked together to create a? - ANSWER mixed
economy, similar to the one that had formed in seventeenth-century New England.
By 1850 almost 600,000 white settlers and 800,000 slaves had moved into the states known as
the Old Southwest, which included all of the following states EXCEPT:
A. Mississippi
B. Arkansas
C. New Mexico
D. Alabama - ANSWER C. New Mexico
Who first tested a steam-engine driven boat on the Hudson River in 1807? - ANSWER Robert
Fulton
Passed in 1824, this decision opened the economy to free and fair competition by affirming the
federal government's supremacy over the regulation of interstate commerce. - ANSWER
Gibbons v. Ogden
Who invented a primitive grain reaper in 1834 that allowed farmers to harvest twelve acres of
wheat a day? - ANSWER Cyrus Hall McCormick
Who patented a process for vulcanizing rubber, which made it elastic and strong, in 1844? -
ANSWER Charles Goodyear
Who invented the telegraph in 1832? - ANSWER Samuel F. Morse
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