BYU Independent Study History 220
Final Exam correctly answered to pass
This place was a showcase for the transcendentalist philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Fourierist community
West Roxbury Farm
Brook Farm
New Harmony - correct answer ✔✔Brook Farm
Lowell, Massachusetts, represented an example of
large use of immigrant labor.
recruitment of workers through the Waltham system
and a planned manufacturing city.
an emphasis on household manufacturing.
America's move toward industries such as coal and steel production. - correct answer
✔✔recruitment of workers through the Waltham system and a planned manufacturing city.
An effect of the practical use of steamboats was
the onset of an economic depression in the East.
a revolution in transportation on western rivers.
making canals a thing of the past.
,a drop-off in trade between the West and the South. - correct answer ✔✔a revolution in
transportation on western rivers.
Why did many Irish people come to America in the 1840s and 1850s?
Poor business conditions for Ireland's large middle
class
England's success at stopping the practice of Roman
Catholicism in Ireland
Domination of Protestant landlords and starvation in
Ireland
The tendency of southern governments to prefer
Irish rather than German immigration - correct answer ✔✔Domination of Protestant landlords
and starvation in Ireland
Which statement about Eli Whitney is not true?
He grew up in Massachusetts before moving to the South as a tutor.
The cotton gin was his only significant contribution as an inventor.
His cotton gin cheaply solved the problem of removing fiber from cotton.
He received a government contract to manufacture muskets. - correct answer ✔✔The cotton
gin was his only significant contribution as an inventor.
The court system's support of corporate rights to eminent domain meant that
corporations could purchase "rights of way" land whenever they needed it.
interstate commerce could not be supervised by the federal government.
, investors were protected from creditors if a corporation went bankrupt.
canals could only be constructed with capital provided by the federal government. - correct
answer ✔✔corporations could purchase "rights of way" land whenever they needed it.
The putting-out system
gave property owners the right to evict tenants from specific ethnic groups.
was the foundation of the first large-scale factories in Pittsburgh.
created a business relationship between merchants and household artisans.
did not develop until the years just before the Civil War. - correct answer ✔✔created a business
relationship between merchants and household artisans.
Eastern elites, with the support of their wives and daughters, formed this group of church-
affiliated reform organizations known as
Sabbatarian movement.
the Benevolent Empire.
Daughters of the American Revolution.
NAACP. - correct answer ✔✔the Benevolent Empire.
All of the following conditions were true for women workers except
many workers in the textile industry were females.
many did piecework labor out of their homes.
long hours and lower pay than their male peers.
they made up a very small percentage of the workforce. - correct answer ✔✔they made up a
very small percentage of the workforce.
Final Exam correctly answered to pass
This place was a showcase for the transcendentalist philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Fourierist community
West Roxbury Farm
Brook Farm
New Harmony - correct answer ✔✔Brook Farm
Lowell, Massachusetts, represented an example of
large use of immigrant labor.
recruitment of workers through the Waltham system
and a planned manufacturing city.
an emphasis on household manufacturing.
America's move toward industries such as coal and steel production. - correct answer
✔✔recruitment of workers through the Waltham system and a planned manufacturing city.
An effect of the practical use of steamboats was
the onset of an economic depression in the East.
a revolution in transportation on western rivers.
making canals a thing of the past.
,a drop-off in trade between the West and the South. - correct answer ✔✔a revolution in
transportation on western rivers.
Why did many Irish people come to America in the 1840s and 1850s?
Poor business conditions for Ireland's large middle
class
England's success at stopping the practice of Roman
Catholicism in Ireland
Domination of Protestant landlords and starvation in
Ireland
The tendency of southern governments to prefer
Irish rather than German immigration - correct answer ✔✔Domination of Protestant landlords
and starvation in Ireland
Which statement about Eli Whitney is not true?
He grew up in Massachusetts before moving to the South as a tutor.
The cotton gin was his only significant contribution as an inventor.
His cotton gin cheaply solved the problem of removing fiber from cotton.
He received a government contract to manufacture muskets. - correct answer ✔✔The cotton
gin was his only significant contribution as an inventor.
The court system's support of corporate rights to eminent domain meant that
corporations could purchase "rights of way" land whenever they needed it.
interstate commerce could not be supervised by the federal government.
, investors were protected from creditors if a corporation went bankrupt.
canals could only be constructed with capital provided by the federal government. - correct
answer ✔✔corporations could purchase "rights of way" land whenever they needed it.
The putting-out system
gave property owners the right to evict tenants from specific ethnic groups.
was the foundation of the first large-scale factories in Pittsburgh.
created a business relationship between merchants and household artisans.
did not develop until the years just before the Civil War. - correct answer ✔✔created a business
relationship between merchants and household artisans.
Eastern elites, with the support of their wives and daughters, formed this group of church-
affiliated reform organizations known as
Sabbatarian movement.
the Benevolent Empire.
Daughters of the American Revolution.
NAACP. - correct answer ✔✔the Benevolent Empire.
All of the following conditions were true for women workers except
many workers in the textile industry were females.
many did piecework labor out of their homes.
long hours and lower pay than their male peers.
they made up a very small percentage of the workforce. - correct answer ✔✔they made up a
very small percentage of the workforce.
