Question 1

How did American leisure time and activities during the 1830s and 1840s compare with leisure during the 1810s and 1820s?

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Question 2

What were the advances in new technology that had the greatest effect on the emerging American factory system during the first half of the nineteenth century?

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Question 3

Despite contrasts between great wealth and great poverty, there was very little overt class conflict in pre-Civil War America.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

By 1860, the energy for industrialization in the United States increasingly came from

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A)  water.
B)  kerosene.
C)  coal.
D)  gasoline.
E)  wood.F) All of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 5

The first American cooperative news gathering organization was called the ________________.

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Question 6

The republican tradition in the United States included the tradition of

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A)  the skilled artisan.
B)  the yeoman farmer.
C)  the industrial entrepreneur.
D)  the skilled artisan and the yeoman farmer.
E)  the yeoman farmer and the industrial entrepreneur.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 7

In most parts of the North, before the Civil War, free blacks could

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A)  vote.
B)  attend public schools.
C)  use public services available to whites.
D)  compete for menial jobs.
E)  All the answers are correct.F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 8

Prior to 1860, rural Americans rarely had contact with the rest of the world.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

In comparing turnpike transportation to canal transportation,

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A)  canal transportation was generally developed before turnpike transportation.
B)  canal construction was less expensive than turnpike construction.
C)  canal boats could haul vastly larger loads than could road transports.
D)  state governments gave little financial support to canal transportation.
E)  New York was the first to finance turnpike construction.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 10

In the 1840s, John Deere introduced significant improvements to the

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A)  tractor.
B)  thresher.
C)  cotton gin.
D)  reaper.
E)  plow.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 11

Which of the following statements regarding American railroads in the 1850s is FALSE?

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A)  Railroads helped weaken the connection between the Northwest and the South.
B)  Most railroad "trunk lines" were reduced or eliminated.
C)  Long distance rail lines weakened the dependence of the West on the Mississippi River.
D)  Chicago was the railroad center of the West.
E)  Private investors provided nearly all the capital for rail development.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 12

When the Lowell factory system began

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A)  craftsmen were part of the production system.
B)  workers were fairly well paid and lived in supervised dormitories.
C)  workers had few benefits outside of a set wage scale.
D)  the work day ended when production quotas were met.
E)  workers rarely stopped working in the mills until retirement.F) D) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 13

Prior to 1860, class conflict in the United States

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A)  increased as most of the working class dropped down the economic ladder.
B)  increased as the gap between the wealthy and the poor widened.
C)  was limited by a high degree of mobility within the working class.
D)  decreased as immigration diversified society.
E)  increased as a result of geographical mobility.F) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 14

Corporate development was aided by laws permitting a system of ________________ for individual stockholders.

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Question 15

The Northwest was the most self-consciously democratic section of the United States, but it was also a relatively conservative part of the country.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

As of the middle of the nineteenth century, the typical citizen of the Northwest was a poor, marginal farmer.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The Massachusetts court case of Commonwealth v.Hunt (1842)  declared that

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A)  labor unions were lawful organizations.
B)  labor strikes were illegal.
C)  child labor laws were unconstitutional.
D)  minimum wage laws were a restraint on trade.
E)  unions must admit working women as members.F) All of the above
G) A) and C)

Question 18

As the immigrant labor force in New England textile mills grew in the 1840s,

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A)  the workday grew shorter and wages declined.
B)  payment by piece rate replaced a daily wage.
C)  women and children were more likely to earn more than men.
D)  safety conditions began to improve.
E)  the workday grew longer and wages increased.F) B) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 19

Between 1800 and 1830, immigration to the United States

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A)  was the most significant factor in the nation's population growth.
B)  consisted mostly of people from southern Europe.
C)  was at its peak for the century.
D)  consisted mostly of people from Germany and Russia.
E)  was not a significant contributor to the national population.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 20

The fastest-growing group in America prior to the Civil War was the working poor.

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A) True 
 B)False

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