AP US History Ch 10 ws
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| 102334958 | The inventions of Elias Howe and _____ helped to make the sewing machine an important part of the manufacture of ready-to-wear clothing. | Isaac Merritt Singer | 0 | |
| 102334959 | "Potato famine" caused many to come to America | Irish | 1 | |
| 102334960 | In the 1840s and 1850s, _____ mobility was more common than social mobility for easing economic tensions. | Geographic | 2 | |
| 102334961 | When _____ became governor of New York, he led that state's efforts to build the Erie Canal. | DeWitt Clinton | 3 | |
| 102334962 | By 1810, the largest city in the United States was | New York | 4 | |
| 102334963 | Many were young, single women | Irish | 5 | |
| 102334964 | The paternalistic system of recruitment of young women into the textile industry was known as the _____ system. | Lowell | 6 | |
| 102334965 | ______ first applied the principle of interchangeable parts in gun factories. | Eli Whitney | 7 | |
| 102334966 | Cyrus McCormick | Inventor of the automatic reaper | 8 | |
| 102334967 | Few immigrants to the United States between 1820 and 1840 settled in the _____. | South | 9 | |
| 102334968 | After 1830, an increasing proportion of the shipping between the Midwest and the cities of the Northwest shifted from the Mississippi River to the _____. | Erie Canal | 10 | |
| 102334969 | The belief that women were custodians of morality and benevolence and should stay at home was called the cult of ____. | Domesticity | 11 | |
| 102334970 | Edwin Forrest | The celebrated American actor beloved by the working class | 12 | |
| 102334971 | The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie with the ____. | Hudson River | 13 | |
| 102334972 | As the agricultural economy of the Northeast began to decline, rural people began to seek employment in the ____. | cities | 14 | |
| 102334973 | The first industry to take advantage of improved technology and use the factory system was the _____ industry. | textile | 15 | |
| 102334974 | Had little money | Irish | 16 | |
| 102334975 | invented the automatic reaper, which revolutionized grain production. | Cyrus McCormick | 17 | |
| 102334976 | Richard Hoe | Inventor of the steam cylinder rotary press | 18 | |
| 102334977 | In 1837, ____ became the first college in America to accept women students. | Oberlin | 19 | |
| 102334978 | The first railroad company to begin actual operations was the ____, which opened a thirteen-mile stretch of track in 1830. | B.O. Railroad | 20 | |
| 102334979 | In the 1850's nativists came to be known by the password of one of their secret societies, the ____. | Know Nothings | 21 | |
| 102334980 | The distance between the two rails of railroad track is known as the ____. | gauge | 22 | |
| 102334981 | Moved to the American Northwest to become farmers. | Germans | 23 | |
| 102334982 | Came because of economic dislocations of the industrial revolution | Germans | 24 | |
| 102334983 | In 1844, _____popularized the telegraph by sending election news from Baltimore to Washington. | Samuel Morse | 25 | |
| 102334984 | For the first time, large numbers of ____ began immigrating to the United States in the 1830s. | Germans | 26 | |
| 102334985 | John Deere | Inventor of the steel plow | 27 | |
| 102334986 | Samuel Morse | Transmitted news of Polk's nomination from Baltimore to Washington | 28 |
