Chapters 11-12 Review

America is the world's largest industrial nation.

• True

• False

The growth and decline of American foreign trade have little to do with the world economy.

• True

• False

American produces a major portion of the world's products in the following fields EXCEPT ______.

• machinery

• automobiles

• ore

• chemicals

Chartered companies were NOT granted the ______ by the British King or Queen.

• political authority

• economic rights

• judicial authority

• diplomatic authority

_______ urged the federal government to establish a national bank.

• George Washington

• President Roosevelt

• Abraham Lincoln

• Alexander Hamilton

The following inventions took place during the "second industrial revolution" EXCEPT ______.

• typewriter

• telephone

• electric light

• refrigerator

President Johnson tried to build a "Great Society" by introducing various programs like the following EXCEPT _______.

• Medicare

• Food Stamps

• Education Initiatives

• Unemployment Pension

Employment in the _______ sector has been increasing in the US since the 1970s.

• service

• agriculture

• manufacturing

• high-tech

Education is governed by state and local governments instead of the national government in America.

• True

• False

All American children are offered 12 years of compulsory public education.

• True

• False