Industrial Revolution

What was a positive consequence of the construction of the Erie Canal?

• Western farmers could send their goods down the Mississippi River to the port of New Orleans.
• Western farmers could send their goods from the Great Lakes through the canal to the Hudson River and New York City
• Western farmers could trade their crops for furs from the American Indians in the Great Lakes region
• Western farmers could move their families west of the Rocky Mountains

Which best describes Henry Clay’s “American System”?

• Slavery would be abolished, creating a system of free labor in all the states
• Slavery would be prohibited in the Western territories, eliminating a major source of disagreement between the North and South.
• Tariffs on manufactured goods would both protect Northern industry and provide revenues for Western improvements
• The nation would assume debts from the Revolution, create a national bank, tax whiskey and raise tariffs

What was one consequences of the type of taxes shown in the diagram?

• British manufacturers sold more goods in America
• American Indians preferred to purchase British goods
• Southern plantation owners sold more raw cotton in Britain than in the United States
• Northern factory owners received some protection from British competition

During the nineteenth century, in which region of the United States did the plantation system play a key role in the economy and way of life? 

• New England
• Middle Atlantic states
• the South
• the West

Which of these was a primary reason Chinese immigrants came to the United States in the early 1850s?

• To seek gold
• To avoid inexpensive farmland
• To avoid a plague
• To escape religious persecution

Northerners in favor of higher tariffs in the early 1800s argued that tariffs

• permitted access to less expensive foreign goods
• B raised revenue and protected American manufacturers 
• redistributed wealth among different social classes
• encouraged the export of American cotton and other crops

During the early years of the American republic, most Southern farmers supported —

• the creation of a national bank 
• lower tariff rates
• taxes on exports
• ending immigration from Britain 

Which sections of the nation supported a higher tariff in the 1820s as part of Henry Clay’s proposed “American System”? 

• West and South
• North and South
• North and West
• North, South and West

What impact did the increasing demand for raw cotton by textile mills in the early nineteenth century have on the South? 

• Southern plantation owners built their own textile mills
• The number of slaves working on Southern cotton plantations increased
• Southern plantation owners began replacing their slaves with more efficient free laborers
• Farmers who worked their own land without slaves took an increasing share of production

How were the Erie Canal and the Mississippi River similar?

• Both were used to ship slaves to new locations
• Both served as major inland water routes for shipping goods
• Both were unusable in the winter months
• Both acted at one time as important national frontiers