Review Questions

1. Question

   Why did the United States become a leading industrial power in the nineteenth century? (“Economic and Industrial Evolution”)

2. Question

   How did the free-labor ideal account for economic inequality? (“Free Labor: Promise and Reality”)

3. Question

   Why did westward migration expand dramatically in the mid-nineteenth century? (“The Westward Movement”)

4. Question

   Why did the United States go to war with Mexico? (“Expansion and the Mexican-American War”)

5. Question

   Why were women especially prominent in many nineteenth-century reform efforts? (“Reforming Self and Society”)