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Between 1840 and 1860, the South experienced a decline in its percentage of urban residents.

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The primary assistance from the federal government to railroad companies came in the form of _________________.

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Immigration contributed little to the American population in the first three decades of the nineteenth century.

In the 1830s, the most widely circulated paper in the nation was the New York Times.

Prior to 1860, the social institution which most bound together rural Americans was the

In the early 1850s a new political body called the American Party was created by a group called the "____________________."

The transition from farm life to factory life in pre-Civil War America was difficult at best and traumatic at worst.

By 1860, over half of the manufacturing establishments in the United States were located west of the Mississippi River.

Elaborate rooms with lush dark colors and heavy furniture and drapes were characteristic of the ______________ style.

For most Americans in the nineteenth century, vacations were rare.

By the middle of the nineteenth century, merchant capitalism was a declining force in the American economy.

The "Know-Nothing" movement was partially directed at reducing the influence of

As the Lowell factory system progressed into the 1840s,

The development of a railroad system weakened connections between the Northwest and the South.

Between 1840 and 1860, the overwhelming majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States came from

During the 1840s, advances in journalism included all of the following EXCEPT

In most cities of the East prior to the Civil War, the income gap between rich and poor was gradually narrowed.

Much of the new pre-Civil War immigration went into the growing cities of the northeastern part of the United States.

The first railroad company actually to begin operations was the ___________________.

In 1844, Samuel Morse showed off his invention by telegraphing news of Zachary Taylor's nomination for the presidency over the wires from Baltimore to Washington.