The "putting-out" system of production referred to - Answers the system whereby manufacturers would
pay a family to perform one task in producing an item.
The middle class - Answers emerged with the factory system, and the creation of managers and
supervisors.
The Grange was - Answers a national farm movement that sought political solutions to farmers'
economic problems.
All of the following are true about the Cumberland Road, except - Answers The road was widely
considered sufficient for the region's commercial infrastructure needs.
By the 1850s, the cornerstone of America's transportation system was - Answers railroads.
Which of the following happened during the Market Revolution? - Answers A growing number of
farmers began to focus on single crops that they could sell for profit, rather than only growing what they
needed to be self-sufficient.
The key development in the communications revolution was the - Answers telegraph.
All of the following are true about 19th century railroads, except - Answers Railroads crisscrossed the
South far more densely than in the North.
Among the American Federation of Labor's successes were all of the following except - Answers The AFL
achieved all of these successes.
Congress awarded more than 200 million acres to investors who wanted to move westward and -
Answers build railroads connecting the East and West.
Who of the following did not support the economic plan called the American System? - Answers
Southern cotton plantation owners
Housing for factory workers was so bad in the late 1800s, and city sanitation was so poor, that epidemics
of ____ swept through whole cities. - Answers typhoid
By 1850, the percentage of the American labor force employed in agriculture had declined to - Answers
55 percent.
In Gibbons v. Ogden the Supreme Court - Answers confirmed the federal government's power to
regulate commerce overruled that of the states.
All of these were key components of the American System except - Answers a self-sustaining agricultural
system.
The Erie Canal - Answers connected the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo.