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32 Cards in this Set
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During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth.
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True
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With the Second Great Awakening, American Christianity became more hierarchical and out of touch with the common folk.
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False
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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.
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True
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Ely Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin improved the lives of millions of African-Americans.
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False
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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.
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True
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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.
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True
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According to Alexis de Tocqueville, Americans believed that they were the only "enlightened" and "free" people in the world.
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True
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of Walden.
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False
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The rise of the corporation was crucial to the success of the market economy.
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True
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By the 1840s, most working people outside the South toiled in large factories.
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False
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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.
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False
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The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution.
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False
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Cotton gin was a beverage invented by Eli Whitney.
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False
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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.
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False
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America’s early factories drew largely upon the labor of women and children.
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True
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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.
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True
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In Thoreau’s view, the market revolution degraded both people’s values and the natural environment.
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True
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Cincinnati was known as Porkopolis because of its slaughterhouses, in which hundreds of thousands of pigs were butchered each year.
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True
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Free blacks were largely denied access to the material opportunities generated by the market revolution.
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True
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The distribution of wealth was fairly even in the nineteenth-century United States.
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False
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Millions of Americans’ lives were improved by the nineteenth century market revolution.
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True
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For the expanding middle class it became a badge of respectability for wives to remain at home.
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True
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The common nineteenth-century view was that men are naturally aggressive, rational, and domineering, while women are naturally nurturing, selfless, and ruled by emotions.
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True
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Industrialization, a key element in the dynamic and expansive growth of the market economy, was most notable in the northeastern United States.
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True
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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.
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True
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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.
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True
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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.
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True
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Some women served as preachers in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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True
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With the market revolution, the artisanal workshop gave way to relentless pressure for greater output and lower wages.
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True
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The market revolution swept over the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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True
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Expanding networks of toll roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads were essential to the take-off of the market revolution.
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True
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In Commonwealth v. Hunt, Massachusetts chief justice Lemuel Shaw decreed that there was nothing inherently illegal in workers organizing a union or a strike.
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False
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