Exam 8: Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

For which of the following reasons did New York's state government fund the building of the Erie Canal in 1817?

By 1860,the majority of African Americans lived and worked as slaves in which of the following regions?

How did plantation crops and the slavery system change between 1800 and 1860? Why did these changes occur?

The construction of the Erie Canal had which of the following negative consequences?

The most critical contribution American mechanics made to the Industrial Revolution was the development of which of the following?

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

Through which of the following sources did the U.S.Treasury raise most of its revenue during the first half of the 1800s?

Which of the following was an outcome of the American Industrial Revolution in the early nineteenth century?

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

What factors stood in the way of the development of a market economy in the United States in the early nineteenth century? How did the promoters of the Commonwealth System use government at the state and national levels to promote economic growth and the market economy?

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

By the 1830s,coal and metal manufacturers increasingly used which of the following to run machinery?

Which of these factors explained the surplus of slaves in the Chesapeake region in the early nineteenth century?

Describe the three-tiered social system that emerged in the South during and after the American Revolution.

Answer the following questions : -manumission

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

Which of these describes the experiences of the young women who worked in the New England textile mills in the 1820s and 1830s?

In what ways did American culture become more democratic in the early nineteenth century? How did the social and political status of women and African Americans change in relation to the status of white males?

Answer the following questions : -artisan republicanism

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties,to perform the drudgery of life....Such a class you must have,or you would not have that other class which leads progress,civilization,and refinement.It constitutes the very mud-sill of society and of political government....Fortunately for the South,she found a race adapted to that purpose to her hand.A race inferior to her own,but eminently qualified in temper,in vigor,in docility,in capacity to stand the climate,to answer all her purposes.We use them for our purpose,and call them slaves.... The Senator from New York [William Seward] said yesterday that the whole world had abolished slavery.Aye,the name,but not the thing;...for the man who lives by daily labor,and scarcely lives at that,and who has to put out his labor in the market,and take the best he can get for it;in short,your whole hireling class of manual laborers and "operatives," as you call them,are essentially slaves.The difference between us is,that our slaves are hired for life and well compensated;there is no starvation,no begging,no want of employment among our people,and not too much employment either.Yours are hired by the day,not cared for,and scantily compensated,which may be proved in the most painful manner,at any hour in any street in any of your large towns.... South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond,Speech to the Senate,March 4,1858 The excerpt above would best support which of the following historical arguments?