Chapter 14 Reading Quiz: Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

The political party of the era that supported nativist policies was the

• Know-Nothing Party
• Democratic Party
• Free-Soil Party
• Whig Party

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

• Low wages
• Safe working conditions
• Dangerous working conditions
• Widespread pollution

Mass production led to:

• Products being more superior in quality
• goods became less expensive
• laborers received higher wages
• industries moved to rural areas

What product was first made using machines in factories?

• Steel
• textiles
• locomotives
• flying shuttles

Which of the following statements is supported by the information on the graph?

• Irish and German immigration constantly fell between 1840 and 1860.

• Irish and German immigration stayed at constant levels between 1840 and 1860.

• Irish and German immigration first increased and then fell between 1840 and 1860.

Who invented the mechanical reaper which improved harvesting crops?

• John Deere

• Cyrus McCormick

• Peter Cooper

• Robert Fulton

What does this picture have to do with Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin?

• It decreased the demand for slave labor.
• It decreased the production of cotton.
• It increased the demand for slaves.
• It had no effect on the demand for slaves.

What do these things have in common: steel plow, new roads and canals, McCormick reaper?

• decrease in slave population
• increase in agricultural produciton
• enactment of protective tariffs
• growth of immigration

How did the market revolution change the US economy?

• transformed the US economy from a crafts (by hand) system of production to a bartering system of exchange

• transformed the US economy from a manufacturing system of production to a crafts (by hand) system of production

• transformed the US economy from a crafts (by hand) system of production to a manufacturing system of production

• transformed the US economy from a market based system of exchange to a bartering system of exchange

All of the following were technological developments of the Market Revolution EXCEPT

• the telegraph

• Canals

• the Steamboat

• the Caravel