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APush Chapters 12-14
Chapters 12-14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In 1850, over one-half of the American population was | under the age of thirty. |
| Writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville explored characters who exemplified the American frontier's cultural emphasis on | rugged individualism. |
| Americans came to look on their spectacular western wilderness areas especially as | a distinctive and inspirational feature of American national identity. |
| Compared to European immigration to other countries like Ausüalia and Argentina, immigrants to the United States were | from a greater diversity of European countries. |
| The two leading sources of European immigration to America in the 1840s and 1850s were | Germany and Ireland. |
| Many nineteenth-century Americans feared and distrusted Roman Catholicism because | it was seen as a strange foreign religion under total control of an authoritarian pope. |
| Industrialization was, at first, slow to arrive in America because | there was a shortage of labor, capital, and consumers. |
| The first industry to be substantially dominated by the new factory system of mass manufacturing was the | textile industry. |
| Wages for most American workers rose in the early nineteenth century, except for the most exploited workers like | women and children. |
| A major change affecting the American family in the early nineteenth century was | a decline in the average number of children per household. |
| In early nineteenth-century America, almost all the women who worked for wages in the new factories were | young and single. |
| The greatest economic and political impact of New York's Erie Canal was to | make upstate New York the new center of American agriculture. |
| The new regional division of labor created by improved transportation meant that the South specialized in | cotton, the West in grain and livestock, and the East in manufacturing. |
| Free incorporation laws, limited liability laws, and the Supreme Court's decision prohibiting state governments from granting irrevocable charters to corporations all greatly aided | established businesses with large capital investments. |
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