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- The "putting-out" system of production referred to • the system whereby manufacturers would pay a family to perform one task in producing an item.

- The middle class • emerged with the factory system, and the creation of managers and supervisors. - The Grange was • a national farm movement that sought political solutions to farmers' economic problems. - All of the following are true about the Cumberland Road, except • The road was widely considered sufficient for the region's commercial infrastructure needs. - By the 1850s, the cornerstone of America's transportation system was • railroads. - Which of the following happened during the Market Revolution? • A growing number of farmers began to focus on single crops that they could sell for profit, rather than only growing what they needed to be self-sufficient.

- The key development in the communications revolution was the • telegraph. - All of the following are true about 19th century railroads, except • Railroads crisscrossed the South far more densely than in the North. - Among the American Federation of Labor's successes were all of the following except • The AFL achieved all of these successes. - Congress awarded more than 200 million acres to investors who wanted to move westward and • build railroads connecting the East and West.

- Who of the following did not support the economic plan called the American System? • Southern cotton plantation owners - Housing for factory workers was so bad in the late 1800s, and city sanitation was so poor, that epidemics of ____ swept through whole cities. • typhoid

- By 1850, the percentage of the American labor force employed in agriculture had declined to • 55 percent.

- In Gibbons v. Ogden the Supreme Court • confirmed the federal government's power to regulate commerce overruled that of the states. - All of these were key components of the American System except • a self-sustaining agricultural system. - The Erie Canal • connected the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo. - The need to market goods over wider areas gave rise to new forms of • advertising. - The Homestead Act of 1862 provided a way for settlers to move West, occupy land for five years, and then claim as their own a total of • 160 acres....