Question 1

In 1815, ____________________ was the largest American city.

Accepted Answer

The answer of In 1815, ____________________ was the largest American...

Question 2

____________________ built the first Arkwright spinning mill in the United States (in Pawtucket, Rhode Island).

Accepted Answer

The answer of ____________________ built the first Arkwright spinning mill...

Question 3

The National Road linked

Accepted Answer

A) the Potomac River with the Ohio River. 
B) the Mississippi River with the Great Lakes. 
C) New York City with Boston. 
D) The Ohio River with the Mississippi. 
E) Boston with Charleston. 
A) the Potomac River with the Ohio River. 
B) the Mississippi River with the Great Lakes. 
C) New York City with Boston. 
D) The Ohio River with the Mississippi. 
E) Boston with Charleston.

Question 4

Backcountry whites adopted all of the following practices except

Accepted Answer

A) girdling trees so that they would fall down naturally. 
B) depending on game for food and animal skins for trade. 
C) leaving their women behind to tend the farms when they hunted. 
D) engaging in drunken brawls. 
E) cooperating economically with local Indians. 
A) girdling trees so that they would fall down naturally. 
B) depending on game for food and animal skins for trade. 
C) leaving their women behind to tend the farms when they hunted. 
D) engaging in drunken brawls. 
E) cooperating economically with local Indians.

Question 5

Thomas Jefferson would have supported an urban "market society".

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

A "razorback" was a southern term for a porcupine.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

____________________ were artisans who worked for wages.

Accepted Answer

The answer of ____________________ were artisans who worked for wages....

Question 8

New York's governor, ____________________, talked the state legislature into building what became the Erie Canal.

Accepted Answer

The answer of New York's governor, ____________________, talked the state...

Question 9

Urban master artisans during the years of the early republic

Accepted Answer

A) experienced no change in their social or economic status. 
B) were unlikely to enter the emerging business class. 
C) lived in a pristine environment free from filth and disease. 
D) were able to support their families on their own. 
E) increasingly subcontracted their "slop work" work to younger artisans. 
A) experienced no change in their social or economic status. 
B) were unlikely to enter the emerging business class. 
C) lived in a pristine environment free from filth and disease. 
D) were able to support their families on their own. 
E) increasingly subcontracted their "slop work" work to younger artisans.

Question 10

The building of the Erie Canal raised the cost of transporting western wheat in the early nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Discuss the role of the transportation revolution in creating the market economy of the nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

The transportation revolution played a c

Question 12

The market revolution did not affect the family.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The first big market in ready-made clothing was for slaves.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Farmers in the South and West embraced the _________________, in which they simply remembered what they were owed.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Farmers in the South and West embraced...

Question 15

Southern farmers were early proponents of the systematic breeding of animals.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

____________________ was the eccentric Yankee who planted apple trees in the Northwest and earned himself the nickname "Johnny Appleseed."

Accepted Answer

The answer of ____________________ was the eccentric Yankee who planted...

Exam 8: Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

In 1815, ____________________ was the largest American city.

____________________ built the first Arkwright spinning mill in the United States (in Pawtucket, Rhode Island).

The National Road linked

Backcountry whites adopted all of the following practices except

Thomas Jefferson would have supported an urban "market society".

A "razorback" was a southern term for a porcupine.

____________________ were artisans who worked for wages.

New York's governor, ____________________, talked the state legislature into building what became the Erie Canal.

Urban master artisans during the years of the early republic

The building of the Erie Canal raised the cost of transporting western wheat in the early nineteenth century.

Discuss the role of the transportation revolution in creating the market economy of the nineteenth century.

The market revolution did not affect the family.

The first big market in ready-made clothing was for slaves.

Farmers in the South and West embraced the _________________, in which they simply remembered what they were owed.

Southern farmers were early proponents of the systematic breeding of animals.

____________________ was the eccentric Yankee who planted apple trees in the Northwest and earned himself the nickname "Johnny Appleseed."

When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe

Colonization in North America, 1600-1680

Empires, Indians, and the Struggle for Power in North America, 1670-1720

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent, 1720-1763

Reform, Resistance, Revolution, 1763-1776

The Revolutionary Republic, 1776-1789

Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815

The Old South, 1790-1850

Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850

Whigs and Democrats, 1815-1840

Antebellum Reform, 1820-1860

Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or Slavery 1845-1860

The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

A Transformed Nation: the West and the New South, 1865-1900

The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920

Progressivism, 1900-1917

Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917

War and Society, 1914-1920

The 1920s

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

America During the Second World War, 1939-1945

The Age of Containment, 1946-1953

America at Midcentury, 1953-1963

America During a Divisive War, 1963-1974

Uncertain Times, 1974-1992

Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century

A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2014

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