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Brinkley Chapter 10 Review - America's Economic Revolution
Brinkley Chapter 10 Review - America's Economic Revolution
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1
Which state was the first to act in the construction of canals?
Ohio
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
New York
2
Which of the following is true?
Irish immigrants came mostly from Protestant backgrounds
Irish immigrants settled mostly in the west
German immigrants tended to be unskilled and very poor
Irish Immigrants were a large part of the factory workforce
3
The MOST profound economic development of the mid-1800s was the rise in
The Telegraph
Factories
Canals
Railroads
4
Why was credit so inneficient during most of the 1800s?
Bank rarely issued bank notes
The Second National Bank had been recharted
The official currency consisted of only gold and silver
There was too much public confidence in bank notes
5
The Know-Nothing party gained significant strength in the early 1800s in the
North-East
mid- West
South
Pacific
6
The construction of the Erie canal was made possible due to canal advocate
Jonathan Edwards
De Witt Clinton
Robert Fulton
Calvert Vaux
7
Commonwealth v. Hunt declared
government had power to regulate private industry
States had no right to regulate interstate trade
unions and strikes were lawful
The principle of judicial review
8
Which was NOT a MAIN factor in inducing the American industrial revolution?
The creation of several new transportation systems.
The development of the telegraph
Changes in business organizations - incorporation laws
The rapidly increasing american population.
9
Some advantages of corporations during the market revolution include
Merchant capitalists who owned sole ownership of enterprises
The system of "limited liability"
The cumbersome process of obtaining a charter
The accumulation of less capital
10
Eli Whitney created
The telegraph
The railroad
Interchangeabe Parts
The Sewing Machine
11
Canal building in early 1800s was expensive for private enterprises, so it fell on states.
False
True
12
For Middle-Class women, the economic revolution in the 1800s ultimately
weakened the "cult of domesticity" as they entered workforce
led for the creation of a seperate spheres for women
involved women in public life and politics
encouraged the idea that women were superior to men
13
Which group of native-born Americans would support immigration during early 19th century?
The Middle-class
Land Speculators of the west
The working class
Nativists
14
Most newcomers during the first half of the 1800s came from
Germany and Ireland
Scandanavia and Italy
Japan and China
France and England
15
The market revolution
increased the opportunity for social mobility
decreased the gap between the wealthy and the urban poor
undermined growing class distinctions
led to an increase in birth rates.
16
Consolidation of railroads is
the merging of large railroad companys for economic benefit
investments from private instead of goverment sources
subsidizing railroad companies
the combining of short lines into longer lines "trunk lines"
17
Like railroad lines, telegraph lines were far more extensive in the
South
North-East
Pacific
Mid-West
18
Common systems of recruitment to bring new labor supply into the expanding textile mills were
enlisting young women, mostly farmer's daughters
getting parents to work while children stayed in the west
attracting old male workers
bringing whole families from the farm to the mill
19
_____ was a response to the increase in factory systems.
National Craft Unions
Small immigrant workforce
Skilled training
Fueling of sectional discord
20
Which of the following is NOT a reason for the rise of Nativism?
Immigrants made catholicism more popular
Immigrants would expand the market for goods
Immigrants usually lived in slums
Immigrants would work for lower wages
21
____ was celebrated for entertaining audiences with his great freak shows
P.T Barnum
Gifford Pinchot
Samuel Slater
Frederick Olmsted
22
The northwest was based on a defense of
lack of agricultural innovation
large industrialization efforts
high social mobility
economic freedom
23
Which of the following was NOT a goal by the Supreme order of Star-Spangled Banner?
Petitioning government for immigration quotas
Banning catholics from holding public office
Restrictive naturalization laws
Literacy tests for voting
24
Stephen Douglas, supporter of Kansas-Nebraska act, also supported
welfare contributions to Irish immigrants
federal subsidies to canal construction companies
slavery in every state
federal land aids for the construction of railroads
25
Unlike Britain, factory owners placed great emphasis on maintaining proper Lowell environments
so owners can rival the horrid working conditions of Europe
because they genuinely cared for the welfare of their women
because many believed the employment of women to be immoral
because they wanted to attract women away from the farm life
26
The Associated Press in the mid 1800s promoted cooperative news gathering due to
Canals and Steamboats
Railroads
automobiles
telegraph wiring
