Question 1

Which factor led to planters' need to smuggle slaves into the country rather than import them legally?

Accepted Answer

A)  A Supreme Court ruling 
B)  State legislation 
C)  Congressional legislation 
D)  Missouri's application for statehood 
A)  A Supreme Court ruling 
B)  State legislation 
C)  Congressional legislation 
D)  Missouri's application for statehood

Question 2

Why was the South on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution by 1840?

Accepted Answer

A)  It produced and exported over two-thirds of the world's cotton supply. 
B)  Planters were using European immigrants as industrial workers. 
C)  Planters were building factories to process cotton. 
D)  Southern society was dominated by free labor. 
A)  It produced and exported over two-thirds of the world's cotton supply. 
B)  Planters were using European immigrants as industrial workers. 
C)  Planters were building factories to process cotton. 
D)  Southern society was dominated by free labor.

Question 3

The domestic slave trade affected the African American family unit before 1865 by

Accepted Answer

A)  destroying the sense of family. 
B)  separating adults but not children from their families. 
C)  destroying 75 percent of black marriages. 
D)  separating family members through sale and trade. 
A)  destroying the sense of family. 
B)  separating adults but not children from their families. 
C)  destroying 75 percent of black marriages. 
D)  separating family members through sale and trade.

Question 4

Answer the following  questions :
-Waltham-Lowell System

Accepted Answer

A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits. 
A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits.

Question 5

Answer the following  questions :
-middle class

Accepted Answer

A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits. 
A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits.

Question 6

Answer the following  questions :
-gradual emancipation

Accepted Answer

A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits. 
A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits.

Question 7

By the 1830s,most laborers in the urban Northeast lived in which type of residences?

Accepted Answer

A)  Barracks provided by factory owners 
B)  Private slum shanties 
C)  Church-sponsored charity houses 
D)  Crowded boardinghouses and tiny apartments 
A)  Barracks provided by factory owners 
B)  Private slum shanties 
C)  Church-sponsored charity houses 
D)  Crowded boardinghouses and tiny apartments

Question 8

Answer the following  questions :
-paternalism

Accepted Answer

A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits. 
A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits.

Question 9

How did the domestic slave trade affect slaves in the nineteenth-century South?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Slaves'

Question 10

For this question,refer to the banner of the Society of Pewterers of New York City,carried in the Federal Procession,July 23,1788,celebrating the ratification of the U.S.Constitution. The ribbon at top right reads,"The Federal Plan Most Solid & Secure/Americans Their Freedom Will Endure/All Art Shall Flourish in Columbia's Land/And All her Sons Join as One Social Band."
  At the time of the image's creation,which of the following groups would most likely have supported the views expressed by this banner?

Accepted Answer

A)  Abolitionists 
B)  Free African Americans 
C)  Federalists 
D)  Democratic Republicans 
A)  Abolitionists 
B)  Free African Americans 
C)  Federalists 
D)  Democratic Republicans

Question 11

Which of the following statements characterizes the planter elite of the Upper South in the early and mid-1800s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Many elite planters considered themselves benevolent masters. 
B)  Tidewater planters frequently questioned the morality of the domestic slave trade. 
C)  Planters' embrace of republicanism weakened plantation aristocracy. 
D)  Rice planters,in particular,valued Jeffersonian republican simplicity. 
A)  Many elite planters considered themselves benevolent masters. 
B)  Tidewater planters frequently questioned the morality of the domestic slave trade. 
C)  Planters' embrace of republicanism weakened plantation aristocracy. 
D)  Rice planters,in particular,valued Jeffersonian republican simplicity.

Question 12

America's History argues that,by 1820,a distinct American identity had begun to emerge.How would you describe this identity? What were the forces for unity? And what were the points of contention?
Answer Key

Accepted Answer

The Missouri Compromise is a case in poi

Question 13

What were some of the markers of the middle class-"the farmers,the mechanics,the manufacturers,the traders,who carry on professionally the ordinary operations of buying,selling,and exchanging merchandize"-that emerged as a result of the Market Revolution in the early 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Wealth:

Question 14

Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America?

Accepted Answer

A)  It brought workers together under one roof in a factory. 
B)  The new system quickly replaced the rural outwork system. 
C)  It eliminated any possibility that unions could organize to defend workers' interests. 
D)  The system was bitterly opposed by the many critics of industrial pollution. 
A)  It brought workers together under one roof in a factory. 
B)  The new system quickly replaced the rural outwork system. 
C)  It eliminated any possibility that unions could organize to defend workers' interests. 
D)  The system was bitterly opposed by the many critics of industrial pollution.

Question 15

What forces turned America into a capitalist society during the early years of the republic?

Accepted Answer

They bought raw materials,hired farm fam

Question 16

The notion of slavery as a "necessary evil" and a "positive good" was supported by which idea?

Accepted Answer

A)  In a slave-owning society,every free man is an aristocrat. 
B)  Slavery gave whites the psychological satisfaction of knowing they ranked above blacks. 
C)  Slavery allowed a civilized lifestyle for whites and cared for genetically inferior blacks. 
D)  Whites educated and Christianized slaves in return for their love,labor,and loyalty. 
A)  In a slave-owning society,every free man is an aristocrat. 
B)  Slavery gave whites the psychological satisfaction of knowing they ranked above blacks. 
C)  Slavery allowed a civilized lifestyle for whites and cared for genetically inferior blacks. 
D)  Whites educated and Christianized slaves in return for their love,labor,and loyalty.

Question 17

Answer the following  questions :
-Erie Canal

Accepted Answer

A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits. 
A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits.

Question 18

Answer the following  questions :
-neomercantilism

Accepted Answer

A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits. 
A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits.

Question 19

Answer the following  questions :
-machine tools

Accepted Answer

A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits. 
A) A system of government-assisted economic development embraced by republican state legislatures throughout the nation,especially in the Northeast.This system of activist government encouraged private entrepreneurs to seek individual opportunity and the public welfare through market exchange. 
B) First major economic crisis of the United States.Farmers and planters faced an abrupt 30 percent drop in world agricultural prices,and as farmers' income declined,they could not pay debts owed to stores and banks,many of which went bankrupt. 
C) The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820,whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. 
D) The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.This shift reflected the increased output of farms (including cotton plantations)and factories,the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants,and the creation of a transportation network of roads,canals,and railroads. 
E) A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie.This waterway brought prosperity to the entire Great Lakes region,and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest.
F)A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries,such as cotton textiles and iron,between 1790 and 1860.
G)The economic system that developed in the first half of the nineteenth century binding together southern cotton production with northern clothmaking,shipping,and capital.
H)A term used in the nineteenth century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry.
I)A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell,Chicopee,and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church.
J)The practice of ending slavery in the distant future while recognizing white property rights to the slaves they owned.Generally,living slaves were not freed by this practice;it applied only to slaves born after the passage of the statute,and only after they had first labored for their owners for a term of years.
K)The legal act of relinquishing property rights of slaves.Worried that a large free black population would threaten the institution of slavery,the Virginia assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 law regarding this legal act ten years later.
L)The domestic slave trade,with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.
M)The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
N)A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.
O)The ideology held by slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.
P)Cutting,boring,and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts,which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines.The rapid development of these instruments by American inventors in the early nineteenth century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization.
Q)An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers,men and women who owned their own shops (or farms).It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by,and dedicated to the welfare of,independent workers and citizens.
R)Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employers over wages,hours,benefits,and control of the workplace.
S)The belief that human labor produces economic value.Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined not by the market (supply and demand)but by the amount of work required to make it,and that most of the price should be paid to the person who produced it.
T)A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.
U)An economic group of prosperous farmers,artisans,and traders that emerged in the early nineteenth century.Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity.This surge in income,along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods,fostered a distinct urban culture.
V)A nineteenth-century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline,hard work,and temperate habits.

Question 20

In the cotton-growing regions of the South,which of the following was true of the gang-labor system of work?

Accepted Answer

A)  It allowed slaves to work individually and at their own pace. 
B)  The labor system was primarily used on plantations with twenty or fewer slaves. 
C)  Gang labor depended upon the work of white overseers and black drivers. 
D)  The system controlled slave laborers without the use of violent discipline or punishment. 
A)  It allowed slaves to work individually and at their own pace. 
B)  The labor system was primarily used on plantations with twenty or fewer slaves. 
C)  Gang labor depended upon the work of white overseers and black drivers. 
D)  The system controlled slave laborers without the use of violent discipline or punishment.

Exam 8: Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

Which factor led to planters' need to smuggle slaves into the country rather than import them legally?

Why was the South on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution by 1840?

The domestic slave trade affected the African American family unit before 1865 by

Answer the following questions : -Waltham-Lowell System

Answer the following questions : -middle class

Answer the following questions : -gradual emancipation

By the 1830s,most laborers in the urban Northeast lived in which type of residences?

Answer the following questions : -paternalism

How did the domestic slave trade affect slaves in the nineteenth-century South?

Which of the following statements characterizes the planter elite of the Upper South in the early and mid-1800s?

America's History argues that,by 1820,a distinct American identity had begun to emerge.How would you describe this identity? What were the forces for unity? And what were the points of contention? Answer Key

What were some of the markers of the middle class-"the farmers,the mechanics,the manufacturers,the traders,who carry on professionally the ordinary operations of buying,selling,and exchanging merchandize"-that emerged as a result of the Market Revolution in the early 1800s?

Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America?

What forces turned America into a capitalist society during the early years of the republic?

The notion of slavery as a "necessary evil" and a "positive good" was supported by which idea?

Answer the following questions : -Erie Canal

Answer the following questions : -neomercantilism

Answer the following questions : -machine tools

In the cotton-growing regions of the South,which of the following was true of the gang-labor system of work?

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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