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Answer SIX out of the following eight questions.


 * Forging the National Economy, 1790–1860**

1. How did the migration into a vast western frontier shape Americans’ values and society in the period 1790–1860? 2. Since all white Americans were descended from European immigrants, what made the Irish and German immigration of the 1830s and 1840s so controversial. Was the crucial factor in fueling nativist hostility really religion (that is, Catholicism) and poverty rather than immigration itself? 3. What were the effects of the new factory and corporate systems of production on early industrial workers. Why were Americans relatively slow to move from their traditional agricultural and craft forms of production to industrial factory manufacturing? 4. Argue for or against: Americans’ love of technology and success in inventing labor-saving devices occurred in part because skilled labor was such a scarce commodity in the United States. 5. What was the impact of the new economic developments on the role of women in society? Which women were most affected by early industrialization and which least? 6. How did the American family change in the early nineteenth century? How did these changes especially affect the place of children within the family? 7. In America, early industrialization, westward expansion, and growing sectional tension all occurred during the first half of the nineteenth century. How were these three developments connected? Which section of the nation gained the most from the transportation and communications revolutions of the period, and which gained least? 8. Should the rise of early American industry and the market revolution be seen as an expression of American popular democracy and the rise of mass politics (see Chapter 13), or was the Jacksonian movement toward democracy and equality in part a response to the threat that expanding capitalism posed to those core American values?