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| The consumer revolution of the early nineteenth century... |
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| was accomplished by the emulation of aristocratic manners. |
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| The _______ was an early nineteenth century development that constituted the combined solution to the problems of locating sufficient capital, transporting raw materials to factories and products to consumers, and supervising large numbers of workers. |
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| The first American factory was developed by... |
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| Samuel Slater to spin cotton thread. |
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| The merchant who headed the Boston Associates, owner of the innovative Waltham mills, was... |
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| As the gap between owners and workers increased in the 1840's, American workers... |
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| failed to become a self-conscious working class. |
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| In "mapping the Past: The Making of the Working Class" your text uses maps to show how the economic growth of the early nineteenth century led to... |
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| physical seperation of masters and workers. |
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| Most workers in the earliest textile factories were... |
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| Under the Waltham System, |
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| young farm women worked and lived under strictly supervised conditions. |
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| The American population more than doubled between 1790 and 1820 primarily because of the... |
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| In the 1830's and 1840's, most of the thousands of poor and wretched immigrants who flooded into America came from... |
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| One consequence of American industrialization in the early nineteenth century was... |
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| a decline in the need for foreign goods and thus in the business of merchants. |
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| By far the most important indirect effect of industialization occurred when the... |
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| South began to produce cotton to supply the new textile mills of New England and Great Britain. |
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| As a result of the cotton gin, |
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| cotton production soared and the Southern economy boomed. |
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| For a generation after 1815, the most expansive force in the American economy was... |
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| The racial beliefs of most white Americans in the last decades of the eighteenth century were characterized by their... |
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| greater respect for white property rights than for black American's right to personal liberty. |
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| A successful and bloody slave revolt led to the creation in 1804 of the black republic of... |
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| The Republic of Liberia in western Africa... |
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| was founded by the American Colonization Society and was the eventual home to 12,000 American blacks. |
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| The cotton boom in the early nineteenth century caused a... |
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| demand for more labor which was met by a renewed growth of slavery. |
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| By 1820, the interstate slave traade in the South was... |
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| a legal, well-organized, cruel, and shameful business. |
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| One advantage which Northern blacks had over Southern blacks was their... |
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| ability to organize movements to protest their treatment. |
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| The natural highway for western commerce and communication in the early nineteenth century was the ________ River. |
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| The first modern road in the United States was built in the 1790's to connect Philadelphia and... |
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| In the 1790's and early 1800's, private companies built roads called... |
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| In the nineteenth century, Congress... |
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| built only one major road, the Old National Road. |
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| solidly established New York City's importance in commerce. |
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