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1) What were the new forms of transportation that developed in the period of 1800–1850?
What was the importance of each type of transportation?
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2) Explain why the transportation revolution stimulated the development of a national
domestic market.
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3) List three ways the government promoted economic growth after 1815. Which do you
think was the most important, and why?
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4) How did factories differ from earlier forms of production in the United States?
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5) Why did factories develop in the United States? How did they change over time?
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6) How did the Supreme Court aid the development of a market economy?
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7) How does Chauncey Jerome’s life encapsulate the major changes that occurred in this
period? How can his life stand as a symbol of the changes discussed in this chapter?
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8) What evidence is there that the period from 1815 to 1850 was a time of heightened
anxiety in American life? What were the causes of this anxiety?
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9) List three ways the development of a national market changed American society after
1815. Did these changes make American society more open than before? What does the phrase
“opening of America” mean?
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10) What is the difference between social and geographic mobility? How were these related
in the years after 1815?
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11) The creation of a domestic market, the development of cheap transportation, the rise of
cities, and the availability of capital and credit can all be seen to have stimulated the shift to
factory production. Choose three of these factors and explain how they contributed to the rise of
factories.
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12) A transportation network grew rapidly as investors poured capital into improvement
projects, especially after the opening of the ________ Canal in the state of New York in 1825.
12) ______
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13) The most important stimulus to economic development between 1815 and 1840, affecting
both North and South (though in different ways), was the growth of the ________ trade.
13) ______
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14) The major form of transportation in the West as the national market was emerging was
the _______.
14) ______
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15) In the great federal land rush, most of the public lands offered for sale were bought up by
_______, who therefore played a key role in the settlement of the West.
15) ______
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16) Sam ________ used his waterfall jumping skills to gain personal notoriety and as a
defiant protest against the changing times.
16) ______
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17) Americans seemed notably materialistic to foreign visitors, as ________ became the most
obvious symbol of social status.
17) ______
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18) The national market economy made Americans susceptible to the boom-and-bust cycle,
as first became evident with the Panic of 1819 when world demand for ________ dropped.
18) ______
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19) What rail and steam engines did for transportation, the ________ did for communication.
19) ______
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20) A post–War of 1812 program of economic centralization, designed to promote internal
economic development, was pushed by a group of aggressive young Republican nationalists.
Which of the following did this program NOT include?
20) ______
A) funding the war debt
B) a protective tariff
C) a national bank
D) federal subsidies for public works projects
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21) The key component needed for the United States to have a truly national market economy
was
21) ______
A) greater capital investment.
B) an efficient transportation system.
C) steam power.
D) a modern communications system, including four-season postal roads and the
telegraph.
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22) During the quarter-century after the War of 1812 ended, the most expansive force in the
American economy was
22) ______
A) cotton production.
B) land sales.
C) textile manufacture.
D) canal construction.
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23) Which of the following proved to be the breakthrough necessary to push cotton
production to the center of the American agricultural stage?
23) ______
A) extensive railroad development
B) development of vast overseas markets
C) federal subsidies of cotton production
D) invention of the cotton gin
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24) The Erie Canal
24) ______
A) was made financially feasible by the development of the steamboat.
B) connected the Hudson and Ohio rivers.
C) never repaid the original public investment, but stimulated migration and economic
growth.
D) stimulated construction of other canals by other cities and states.
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25) The chapter introduction tells the story of clockmaker Chauncey Jerome to emphasize
25) ______
A) the importance of clocks in modern society.
B) the rise of an interconnected national market economy in the United States.
C) the advantages of factory work over farm work.
D) the shift towards less specialized forms of labor.
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26) What made steamboats so significant for western rivers?
26) ______
A) Their flat bottoms allowed for the hauling of heavy loads even in low water.
B) Western rivers allowed more access to fuel for the steam engine.
C) The nation’s best engineers were drawn to the frontier in the West because of
steamboats.
D) Steamboats allowed for the development of western cities like Denver and Lincoln,
NE.
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27) In the years before the Civil War, what single enterprise employed more workers than
any other enterprise in the country?
27) ______
A) construction of Niagara Falls
B) Lowell Mills
C) the postal system
D) the Erie Canal Company
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28) Which of the following did farmers begin to do in their shift toward commercial
agriculture?
28) ______
A) barter goods with friends and neighbors
B) plant more acres of land with the use of slave labor
C) work shorter hours
D) adopt scientific farming methods
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29) John Marshall’s Supreme Court decisions sought to promote American enterprise by all
of the following methods EXCEPT
29) ______
A) upholding private contracts.
B) blocking state interference with private property.
C) turning native lands over to white developers.
D) creating a climate of business confidence.
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30) Taken as a body of legal doctrine, the rulings of the Marshall Court
30) ______
A) enlarged federal power to an extraordinary degree.
B) expanded individual economic rights by limiting government’s role in stimulating the
economy.
C) protected minority groups against the abuse of power by majorities.
D) limited the rights of private property by expanding the powers of government.
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31) Europeans especially noted what tendency in American life?
31) ______
A) the emphasis on speed that pervaded every aspect of life
B) the tendency for native-born Americans to stay east of the Appalachians, while
immigrants settled in the new western lands
C) how rooted to a particular place Americans tended to be, despite geographic mobility
D) how religious and other-worldly Americans tended to be, despite rapid economic
growth
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32) Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement concerning population trends from
1790 to 1820?
32) ______
A) Population continued to grow rapidly.
B) Natural increase accounted for virtually all of the country’s population growth.
C) Immigration accounted for most of the population increase.
D) Western lands absorbed most of the population increase.
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33) What was the most basic reason so many Americans moved so much, especially to the
new western lands?
33) ______
A) greater political freedom
B) improved economic opportunity
C) more comfortable social relationships
D) a sense of providential destiny
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34) Which of the following groups purchased the greatest amount of western land from the
federal government?
34) ______
A) industrialists
B) small farmers
C) squatters
D) speculators
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35) One of the most striking characteristics of the American people prior to the Civil War
was their
35) ______
A) geographic mobility.
B) social stability.
C) cultural uniformity.
D) political unity.
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36) What kind of business would a group called the “Dead Rabbits” in the Five Points
neighborhood most likely have been engaged in prior to the Civil War?
36) ______
A) the butcher trade
B) small game hunting
C) poaching
D) illegal gambling
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37) Reformers critical of the new industrial economic order agitated for all of the following,
EXCEPT
37) ______
A) an end to debtor’s prison.
B) public education.
C) workers’ political activism.
D) a living wage.
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38) Which of the following helps to account for the shift to factory production?
38) ______
A) a growing birth rate
B) the availability of investment capital and credit
C) the lack of workers
D) inventions that gave the U.S. a head start over Europeans
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39) Which of the following was/were NOT an impediment to successful labor organization in
the United States prior to the Civil War?
39) ______
A) ethnic, religious, and racial antagonisms
B) party loyalties
C) disagreements over tactics
D) welfare capitalism
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40) What was key to making the Merrimack valley the nation’s greatest industrial center in
the first half of the nineteenth century?
40) ______
A) regulating the river’s waters
B) the Lawrence dam
C) New Hampshire lakes
D) Lowell’s seven canals
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41) For industrial workers, work in the factory resulted in ________ compared to work as a
skilled artisan.
41) ______
A) lower productivity
B) less personal freedom
C) higher social status
D) increased upward mobility
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42) Craftworkers such as carpenters, printers, and tailors formed unions, and in 1834
individual unions came together in the
42) ______
A) American Federation of Labor.
B) Allied Craftworkers Union.
C) National Trade Union.
D) Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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43) Which of the following contributed to the growth of urban areas in early nineteenth-
century America?
43) ______
A) improved transportation
B) declining productivity of eastern farms
C) arrival of immigrants
D) All these answers are correct.
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44) For their workforce, the factories at Lowell before 1845 depended upon
44) ______
A) children.
B) young women.
C) displaced farmers.
D) migrants.
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45) The factory system began in which industry?
45) ______
A) textiles
B) shoemaking
C) firearms
D) iron production
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46) The national market economy created a society that was more differentiated and
specialized. That new condition, in turn, caused
46) ______
A) specialized labor unions that grew most rapidly in the depression of the late 1830s.
B) an increased pride in craftsmanship that became more important than just sheer
productivity.
C) an increasingly unequal distribution of wealth in society, with those at the top
controlling a greater share.
D) a class of newly rich, most of whom came from lower-class farm-family backgrounds.
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47) In its social impact, the national market economy did all of the following EXCEPT
47) ______
A) significantly elevate the status of workers.
B) produce greater per capita wealth in American society.
C) stimulate materialism.
D) reorganize society toward greater specialization.
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48) In the wake of the national market economy, which of the following became
characteristic of Americans?
48) ______
A) moving away from materialism
B) the hunger for respect and recognition through money-making ability
C) a belief that history was the story of inevitable social disintegration
D) a general preoccupation with economic theory and business systems
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49) Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the economic changes that swept most
of America in the early nineteenth century?
49) ______
A) Economic activity was becoming more specialized.
B) The social structure became more stratified.
C) Factory life necessitated a more regimented schedule.
D) Subsistence agriculture was on the rise.
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50) Why was American life marked by anxiety in the midst of early nineteenth-century
prosperity?
50) ______
A) because foreign movements seemed to repeatedly threaten national security
B) because cyclical depressions made that prosperity seem fleeting
C) because corrupt politicians could infringe on a person’s liberties at any time
D) because the nagging issue of slavery threatened to cause a permanent rift in the culture
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51) What conflict in values emerged as America went through its market revolution?
51) ______
A) Most farmers clung to the ideal of a semisubsistence way of life, despite the relentless
reach of commercial networks.
B) Personal lifestyles prized by northerners, who were more religious, differed from
those of southerners, who were more materialistic—a distinction that national market networks
made obvious.
C) Americans had long enjoyed living in settled and stable communities, but
transportation improvements led to much greater geographic mobility.
D) Although Americans professed to believe in equality, the national market economy
coupled with American materialistic pursuits led to ever greater inequalities in wealth.
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52) The factory system asked workers to
52) ______
A) forgo the traditional artisan system of mentorship for industrial productivity.
B) exchange classical timetables of production for more craftsmanship.
C) protect the environment.
D) accept former slaves and women as equals on the factory floor.
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53) Of the following statements, which is the most accurate in explaining why the Panic of
1819 was so significant?
53) ______
A) The nation had never before experienced economic hard times.
B) In reaction, land sales rose to speculative heights.
C) As the first major American depression, it affected city folk and rural Americans alike.
D) It prompted a frenzy of canal building.
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