Middle-class families in the early 19th century sought to limit the number of children they had by using all of

In the early United States, as a patriarchal society,

Women and children were legally considered the man's property.

Lowell's cotton mill, opened in 1814,

Was partly the result of industrial espionage.

Interchangeable parts

Became famous with the rifle from the Springfield, Massachusetts, national armory.

When the putting-out system was adopted for shoe manufacturing in Lynn, Massachusetts,

The production soon became specialized for a national market.

Mechanization

Led to more piecework, longer hours, and lower pay for women.

Workers under industrialization differed from those in the putting-out system in that

They had to adjust to power-driven machinery.

The social order which ranked people according to occupation and status in the 18^th century

Began to break down in the early 1800s and was replaced by an order based on wealth.

Steamboats

Brought one of the first public demands for government regulation.

The National Road

Tied East and West together as a public project.

The Erie Canal

Set off a canal-building boom in other states.

The market economy of mass-produced goods and cash purchases

Characterized western farming frontiers from the beginning.

Middle-class families in the early 19^th century sought to limit the number of children they had by using all of the following methods EXCEPT

The pill.

The correct chronological order of the following events is

Erie Canal opens, Finney's Rochester revivals, first strike at Lowell mills, Beecher's Treatise on Domestic Economy.

The best way to describe the Lowell mill is

As a patriarchal establishment with strict controls.

Mills in rural areas such as Samuel Slater's in the Dudley-Oxford area

Created distinctions between the local community and the mill workers.

Raising children in the middle-class household took time and effort because it

Involved inculcating accepted beliefs and habits.

Strikes in the 1820s and 1830s

Were responses to cuts in wages, often for women.

Charles G. Finney was so successful in upper New York State because his message

Of individual responsibility suited the market revolution.