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- Few immigrants to the United States between 1820 and 1840 settled in the ____
- West
- the first industry to take advantage of improves technology and use the factory system was the ___ industry.
- textile
- The American population of the 1820s and 1830s was moving in a ____ direction
- westward
- The belief that women were custodians of morality and benevolence and should stay at home was called the cult of ____
- domesticity.
- by the 1850s, railroads were consolidating short lines into longer links called ___ ___
- trunk lines
- In 1844, ______ popularized the telegraph by sending election news from Baltimore to Washington
- Samuel F.B. Morse
- For the first time, large numbers of _______ began immigrating to the United States in the 1830s.
- European immigrants
- State laws that allowed individual stockholders to rish only the value of their own investments if i corporation should fail established the privilege of _____
- limited liability
- The Erie Canal connected to Lake Erie with the ____ _____
- Ohio River
- as the agricultural economy of the northeast began to decline, rural people began to seet employment in the ____
- factories
- After 1830, an increasing proportion of the shipping between the Miswest and the cities of the Northwest shifted from the Mississippi River to the ______ ______
- Great Lakes
- In the 1840s and 1850s, ____ mobility was more important than social mobility for easing economic tensions.
- limited
- ____ are independent, skilled craftspeople who made items like hsoes in their small shops or in their own house.
- Artisans
- In 1837, ____ became the first college in America to accept women students.
- Oberlin
- ____ farmers are those who raise vegetables and fruit and sell them in nearby towns.
- Truck
- the most important staple crop of the old northwest was ____
- wheat
- the paternalistic system of recruitment of young women into the textile industry was known as the ____ system
- Lowell
- The distance between the two rails of railroad track is known as the ____
- gauge
- _____ invented the automatic reaper, which revolutionalized grain production.
- Cyrus H McCormick
- By 1810, the largest city in the United States was ___ ____
- New York
- In the 1850's, nativists came to be known byt he password of one of their secret societies, the ____ _____
- "Know-Nothings"
- The first railroad company to behin actual operations was the ____ and ______, which opened a 13 mile stretch of track in 1830
- Baltimore and Ohio
- When ____ became governor of New York, he led that state's efforts to build the Erie Canal.
- De Witt Clinton
- _____ first applied the principle of interchangeable parts in gun factories.
- Eli Whitney
- Labor unions of the 1830s were more like pre-industrial ___ than modern labor organizations
- guilds
- The inventions of Elias Howe and ___ helped to make the sewing machine an important manufacture of ready-to-wear clothing.
- isaac singer