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US HISTORY CHAP1
US HISTORY CHAPTER 1 DUAL CREDIT BIOLOGY
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did Britons and Europeans travel to the US and what 2 characterristics were observed soon after they arrived? | curiosity, size and people diversity |
| What was especially new to those travelers from Europe? | crops, livestock |
| What were the 4 principal regions during the early 1800s? | New England, Middle States, South, West |
| What group included approximately 1/2 of the US population? | English decent |
| What was the greatest proportion of urban dwellers in this time period? | 1/9 |
| What were the major cities in this period? | New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Baltimore, Boston |
| In what ways were American cities important? | information, goods, people, livestock |
| in surviving population registers, what is listed for the majority of slave families? | Slaves weren't recorded |
| What proportion of American families farmed in 1800? 1840? | 4/5, 2/3 |
| What was America's universal crop? | Corn |
| What did farm women do in the dairy? | transform milk to butter, churn |
| How did most Americans learn to work? | apprenticeship |
| What was most Southerners' reaction to the practice of keeping written accounts between neighbors? | They used oral accounting |
| What is a specie? | money-gold and silver coin |
| What were the customs of apprenticeship? | young, learned from kin |
| When did cook stoves come into use in cities? | 1830s |
| Why did women devote increasing time and attention to child rearing | to help with other tasks |
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T.Wade
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