Postcolonial Society
T/F: Most farms in New England and middle states diversified their crops and farms rather than focusing on one item.
True
Who is probably the archetype for early American pioneers pushing past the Appalachian Mountains? (initials are D.B.)
Daniel Boone
The construction of the Erie Canal is most closely associated with which state? (Tennessee, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia)
_____ became the great New England cash crop because of the rocky soil throughout the region.
Beef
From what country did America take/steal the idea for a water-powered machine that could spin yarn and thread?
England
According to the first census in 1790, ___% of Americans lived on farms and in rural villages. (28, 42, 74, 94)
94%
After the Treaty of Paris (1783) and before the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the _______ River served as the western border of America's territorial land holdings.
Mississippi
The first road built by America to link two areas inland was called the _______ Road (starts with an N) and linked Washington, D.C. with Wheeling, West Virginia.
National
T/F: The rise of the livestock industry in New England led to massive deforestation in the region.
True
What was the name of the "family system" where mill owners built whole villages surrounded by company-owned farmland that they rented to the husbands and fathers of their female mill workers?
(Massachusetts System, Connecticut System, Rhode Island System)
Rhode Island System
Name the three foreign currencies circulating in the United States in the early days of our country.
Spanish, English, French
Frontier people were so drunken, messy and wild that Eastern elites often referred to them as "our white _____" (comparing them to how poorly we thought of Native Americans)
Savages
Which American entrepreneur is associated with the first commercial steamboat called The Clermont?
(Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick)Robert Fulton
What is the term for the growing rural social class that "defined itself against poorer laborers and those who did not adapt to the new market society"?
Middle Class
Lowell
By 1815, we had roughly 24 urban centers in America and the largest was ______.
In 1790 only 10,000 Americans lived west of the Appalachians...but by 1820 the number had risen to _____ million.
Two
Before the boom of internal improvements, a Senate report showed we could spend $9 to move a ton of goods _____ miles across the Atlantic Ocean but only 30 miles inland. (750...1,000...1,500...2,000)
1,500
As America progressed, an appreciation for refinement and cleanliness grew. Eventually the practice of chewing and spitting tobacco was banned in _______. (stores, churches, schools)
Churches
T/F: The mill girls in these new factory towns typically sent their wages home to their parents and/or paid for their brothers' college educations.
False
Which founding father promoted the idea of the "yeoman farmer"...someone who was prosperous, independent and living in rough equality with neighbors who shared the same status?
Jefferson
By 1820 the term "backcountry" was replaced by the word ______ to refer to the Northwest Territory and the general land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Frontier
By 1840, travel time between big northeastern cities had been reduced from 1/4 to ____ of what it had been in 1790. (1/5...1/9...1/11...1/15)
1/11
The market and housework grew hand in hand: Among the first mass-produced commodities in the United States was the household ______. (Sink, Broom, Iron, Mop)
Broom
The _______-out system refers to the method of merchants subcontracting needlework into homes or small tailor shops.
Putting