APUSH Brinkley Chapter 10 Test Bank
Questions and Actual Answers.
Agricultural Specialization - Answer The concentration of a single crop for market in
commercial agriculture
Canal Age - Answer The name given to the era where canals became the main method of
trading
Commonwealth v. Hunt - Answer A legal victory for industrial workers in Massachusetts in
1842. This court case declared that unions were lawful organization and that the strike was a
lawful weapon
Corporations - Answer A system of business that began to emergy rapidly in the 1830s when
some legal obstacles to their formations had been removed
Cult of Domesticity - Answer The transformation of middle-class women from income
producers to guardians of domestic virtues
Early Skilled Worker Unions - Answer Groups of skilled workers uniting against the use of the
factory system which deskilled many workers. This union fared poorly, because it struggled
against the handicap of hostile laws and hostile courts
Erie Canal - Answer A canal which was opened in October 1825, and was not only an
engineering triumph, but also an immediate financial success
Factory System - Answer A system of labor which spread rapidly in the 1820s and began to
make inroads on the old home-based labor system
Free Labor - Answer The belief of many workers that they had personal freedoms and
considered themselves a sovereign individual, and believed they were people who could make
choices and change their lives
Immigrant Labor - Answer The use of immigrants as a labor supply to use in factories. The
immigrants were popular for labor because they made up a labor force that was large and
Questions and Actual Answers.
Agricultural Specialization - Answer The concentration of a single crop for market in
commercial agriculture
Canal Age - Answer The name given to the era where canals became the main method of
trading
Commonwealth v. Hunt - Answer A legal victory for industrial workers in Massachusetts in
1842. This court case declared that unions were lawful organization and that the strike was a
lawful weapon
Corporations - Answer A system of business that began to emergy rapidly in the 1830s when
some legal obstacles to their formations had been removed
Cult of Domesticity - Answer The transformation of middle-class women from income
producers to guardians of domestic virtues
Early Skilled Worker Unions - Answer Groups of skilled workers uniting against the use of the
factory system which deskilled many workers. This union fared poorly, because it struggled
against the handicap of hostile laws and hostile courts
Erie Canal - Answer A canal which was opened in October 1825, and was not only an
engineering triumph, but also an immediate financial success
Factory System - Answer A system of labor which spread rapidly in the 1820s and began to
make inroads on the old home-based labor system
Free Labor - Answer The belief of many workers that they had personal freedoms and
considered themselves a sovereign individual, and believed they were people who could make
choices and change their lives
Immigrant Labor - Answer The use of immigrants as a labor supply to use in factories. The
immigrants were popular for labor because they made up a labor force that was large and
