Question 1

The federal government encouraged economic expansion by

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A)   providing financial stability through the Second Bank of the United States.
B)   cooperating with state governments on internal improvements.
C)   shielding American products with tariffs.
D)   All of these answers are correct.

Question 2

The early mechanization of the cloth industry

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A)   increased both the volume and price of its goods.
B)   supplemented rather than replaced home manufacturing.
C)   occurred primarily in the South.
D)   seldom saw women or children employed as laborers.

Question 3

All of the following factors contributed to American economic growth from 1820 to 1860 EXCEPT the

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A)   maintenance of low tariff rates.
B)   abundance of natural resources.
C)   influx of European capital.
D)   increasing population.

Question 4

Susan Warner responded to financial adversity by

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A)   giving piano lessons in her home.
B)   opening a school for girls.
C)   writing a novel for publication.
D)   taking a job in a Lowell textile mill.

Question 5

In the decades before the Civil War, Cincinnati workers

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A)   viewed their bosses as a separate and hostile class.
B)   refused to join unions or participate in strikes.
C)   struck for fair wages.
D)   steadily improved their standard of living.

Question 6

Women workers at the Lowell mills

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A)   occupied operative, as well as managerial, positions.
B)   seldom formed close ties with one another.
C)   lived in closely supervised company boardinghouses.
D)   faced challenging and varied routines.

Question 7

Of the following economic indicators describing conditions in Philadelphia, which one DECREASED from 1820 to 1860?

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A)   downward occupational mobility
B)   proportion of craftsmen in the laboring class
C)   residential mobility
D)   percentage of unskilled wage earners in or near poverty

Question 8

Which of the following nations remained a model of industrial growth for the United States during the 1800s?

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A)   Spain
B)   Portugal
C)   Great Britain
D)   China

Question 9

Between 1819 and 1824, a series of Supreme Court decisions established the basic principle that

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A)   debtors could repudiate unfair debts.
B)   contracts were binding legal instruments.
C)   land was intended for subsistence, not exploitation.
D)   states could modify their charters.

Question 10

Which of the following were new inventions of the early transportation and industrialization era?

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A)   electric light bulb
B)   steam ship
C)   nuclear power
D)   airplane

Question 11

The continuing urban growth of New York City from 1820 to 1860 resulted primarily from its

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A)   access to waterpower.
B)   manufacturing of textiles.
C)   being an intersection of natural transportation routes.
D)   role in domestic and foreign trade.

Question 12

By the 1850s, all of the following factors undermined the united action of women mill workers EXCEPT the

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A)   long tenure of women workers.
B)   arrival of Irish immigrants.
C)   use of segregated living quarters.
D)   hiring of more male workers.

Question 13

For most Cincinnati workers before the Civil War, a manufacturing job

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A)   imposed a form of "wage slavery."
B)   encouraged the "manly virtues."
C)   depended upon worker skills.
D)   guaranteed a decent livelihood.

Question 14

The concept of domesticity

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A)   confined women to home and family activities.
B)   implied the moral superiority of women.
C)   elevated women's economic and political status.
D)   helped working-class women make psychological sense of their lives.

Question 15

Antebellum advocates of public education hoped that the schools would

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A)   challenge the dominance of middle-class values.
B)   demonstrate the benefits of economic progress.
C)   teach students to think and act independently.
D)   counter unsettling effects of economic change.

Question 16

Urban growth in many antebellum cities

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A)   outpaced the government's provision of public services.
B)   led to healthier and more comfortable living conditions.
C)   followed an attractive and orderly plan.
D)   made it the nation's largest city by 1860.

Question 17

Discuss efforts to improve and expand public education in antebellum America. Were schools supported as an agent for or as a defense against change?

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Although several states had decided to u...

Question 18

The dramatic improvement in transportation networks between 1810 and 1860 contributed to the

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A)   intervention of governmental controls.
B)   trend toward regional specialization.
C)   higher costs of transportation.
D)   demise of American agriculture.

Question 19

In 1805, in the case of Palmer v. Mulligan, the Court determined that

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A)   private property could be developed for business purposes.
B)   Native Americans were domestic dependent nations.
C)   the Supreme Court had final rule over state courts.
D)   immigrants could not come to the United States in large numbers.

Question 20

Identify and discuss the components that contributed to American economic growth from 1820 to 1860.

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Exam 8: Currents of Change in the Northeast and the Old Northwest

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