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Explore key aspects of America's economic transformation in the 1800s through interactive clicker questions covering topics like labor, productivity, markets, and social movements. Test your knowledge and deepen your understanding of this pivotal period in history.
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Chapter 9:Transforming the Economy, 1800–1860 i>Clicker Questions
1. Why did American manufacturers turn to women as a source of labor in the 1820s and 1830s? a. They hoped to pay lower wages. b. Women were more skilled at textile production. c. Women had better educations. d. Male workers tended to form labor unions.
2. What helped American textile manufacturers outcompete British textile producers in the domestic market? a. Encouraging worker self-discipline and temperance b. Founding the New York Stock Exchange to capitalize businesses c. Getting protective tariffs from the federal government d. Allowing a ten-hour workday
3. The dramatic gain in productivity that occurred in American industry during the Industrial Revolution was due to what combination of factors? a. Cheap raw materials and the Erie Canal b. The Erie Canal and the temperance movement c. New organizational techniques and new technology d. Immigrant labor and cheap raw materials
4. What is exemplified by the unions and mutual benefit societies of the early 1800s? a. Working-class attempts to gain some control over working conditions b. Working-class prejudices that led to racial segregation c. Mechanics' attempts to mimic middle-class values d. Middle-class reform movements
5. The market revolution that took place in America beginning in the 1820s was prompted by the construction of a. railroads linking New York with Cincinnati and Chicago. b. a system of canals and roads linking the Atlantic coast states and the trans-Appalachian west. c. the "Grand Canal" that connected Philadelphia to cities in the South. d. the first transcontinental road that ran from Washington to St. Louis.
6. What did Congress do in 1820 to meet the demand for cheap farmsteads? a. It reduced the price of federal land. b. It increased taxes on American industry to subsidize land sales. c. It seized vast lands from Native Americans. d. It ordered large plantations broken into smaller freeholdings.
7. What common trait helped spur the growth of the fast-growing western cities of the early and middle 1800s? a. Access to the National Road b. Placement on good agricultural land c. Their role as flourishing commercial centers d. Large-scale manufacturing
8. In 1832, evangelicals gained control of what group and achieved success using revivalist methods? a. Prison Discipline Society b. The Benevolent Empire c. American Temperance Society d. The Anti-Catholic League
9. Charles Grandison Finney considered every person to be which of the following? a. A moral free agent b. A self-made man c. A notable d. An artisan
10. Why did many Irish immigrate to the United States between 1840 and 1860? a. Because of a failed revolt against British rule in Ireland b. To work on the Erie Canal c. In pursuit of free land in the Mississippi Valley d. To flee famine and overpopulation
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