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Chapter 9 Transforming the Economy

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Chapter 9 Transforming the Economy
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Why did Congress approve funds for the construction of the National Road in 1806?

To link midwestern settlers to the seaboard states

To connect the manufacturing cities in the South

To provide a route for settlement of territory on the West coast

To connect midwestern settlers’ communities with each other

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following factors explained the rapid growth of western cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New Orleans?

Proximity to abundant coal supplies

Their role in transportation networks

Proximity to major American banks

Their location on the fall line

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following?

The Market Revolution

The Technological Revolution

The Economic Revolution

The Consumer Revolution

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following was one of the ways that wageworkers strove to resist their bosses’ efforts to control their nonwork lives in the early to mid-nineteenth century?

Workers came to work late, left early, and dragged out their lunch and coffee breaks.

They built a robust workers’ culture that preserved their autonomy outside work.

They defined themselves as artisans who deserved the same treatment as their employers.

With their wives, they organized protests against bosses’ rules.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Which American principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the American Industrial Revolution?

American ingenuity

Separation of church and state

Republican motherhood

Democracy

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following statements describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system?

Despite their efforts, the Waltham factory owners could not compete with their English rivals.

The plan created the world’s first comprehensive textile factory.

Its creators recruited farm girls and women to work in factories.

Waltham factory owners received one of 1,000 patents offered for new inventions.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following Puritan ideas became a middle-class conviction with a secular twist during industrialization in the early 1800s?

Covenant thinking

Predestination

The Protestant work ethic

Creation of a society based on faith and ideals

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