Deck 9: Markets and Democracy, 1790-1840

Question 1

A turn out was a

A) system of more efficient labor productions.
B) ​method of recruiting labor.
C) ​product made with standardized parts.
D) ​strike.
E) ​a system of recruiting laborers for America's new factories.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The family wage refers to ​

A) ​supplemental income provided by children working in factories.
B) ​the income brought in my working men and women.
C) ​the amount of income needed for a man to support his wife and children.
D) ​the income brought into the family household by men, women and children.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In Trustees of Dartmouth College​ v. Woodward , the Supreme Court ruled that private corporations did not have the same protected rights as a U.S. citizen.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The phenomenon of surplus labor primarily affected ​

A) ​factories.
B) ​land sales in the western frontier.
C) ​Southern plantations.
D) ​American farms.
E) ​merchant ships.

Question 5

State and local sources had financed 70 percent of canal construction in the early nineteenth century.​

Question 6

During the nineteenth century, two rapidly expanding ranks of service workers were ​

A) physicians and accountants.
B) ​maids and farm hands.
C) ​clerks and boarding house keepers.
D) ​lawyers and messengers.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 7

As a result of the new industrial labor system, immigrant and urban families consisted of waged workers pooling their resources for the sake of survival.

Question 8

Boarding houses for women, such as those of the Lowell mills,​

A) were run by women specifically hired as boardinghouse keepers.
B) ​enforced curfews for their young female tenants.
C) ​mandated church attendance for their tenants.
D) ​had rules that limited mixed-sex socialization.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 9

The building of the Erie Canal was in many ways an international effort.​

Question 10

According to British law, factory workers were forbidden from sharing industrial secrets.​

Question 11

As a result of the spread of the Waltham​-Lowell System, women made up 30 percent of laborers in manufacturing and 80 percent of textile workers by 1839.

Question 12

The General Trades Union was formed as ​

A) ​manufacturers sought better prices for their raw materials.
B) ​workers sought better wages.
C) ​women sought equal opportunities for promotion as men.
D) ​farmers sought better prices for their agricultural products.
E) ​artisans sought to remain a part of the economy.

Question 13

The Cherokee Indian cases defined the status of Native American tribes as ​entities under the protection of the U.S government that maintained sovereignty within their own borders.

Question 14

During the early nineteenth century, the United States still relied on British banks for loans and seed money.​

Question 15

Over 80 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the 1840 election. ​

Question 16

The interstate slave trade transported slave laborers to ​

A) ​the Chesapeake.
B) ​the Deep South.
C) ​New Orleans.
D) ​California.
E) ​the Northeast.

Question 17

During the early nineteenth century, farmers were very much opposed to the idea of a free international trade market.​

Question 18

The first mill in the United States was built by​

A) ​Francis Cabot Lowell.
B) ​Patrick Lyon.
C) ​Samuel Slater.
D) ​Eli Whitney.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 19

The Industrial Revolution began in ​

A) ​Great Britain.
B) ​Ireland.
C) ​the United States.
D) ​Germany.
E) ​Italy.

Question 20

Initially, the Lowell Mills employed _________________ as laborers​.

A) ​free blacks
B) ​white men
C) ​single women
D) ​Native Americans
E) ​Irish immigrants

Question 21

The first bankruptcy law

A) ​was passed in 1807.
B) ​still bound the debtor to a percentage of his debts.
C) ​was overturned three years after it was passed.
D) did not allow for a debtor's assets to be divided among his creditors.​
E) ​the individual who filed bankruptcy could not take on new debt for five years.

Question 22

Which of the following is true about steamboats?

A) ​The first steamboat was developed in 1807.
B) ​Steamboats allowed travel both upriver and downriver.
C) ​Steamboats on the Mississippi brought the global economy to the U.S. interior.
D) By the late 1830s, there were 700 steamboats traveling the ​Mississippi.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 23

Composite farming​

A) ​involved focusing almost all resources on cash crops.
B) ​involved experimenting with new types of fertilizer.
C) ​meant that farming had become more mechanized.
D) ​was a farming system where crops were grown both for market exchange and household use.
E) ​involved the use of slave labor.

Question 24

The Second Bank of the United States​

A) ​was chartered for a ten-year period.
B) ​had only once branch in Washington, D.C.
C) ​was charted in 1816.
D) ​had no control over the circulation of money in the United States.
E) ​held deposits for the government but did not lend it money.

Question 25

Railroads were constructed on a major scale beginning in the ​

A) 1810s ​.
B) ​1820s.
C) ​1830s
D) ​1840s.
E) ​ ​1850s ​.

Question 26

Which of the following is not​ true about the Monroe Doctrine?

A) ​It was delivered as a message to Congress.
B) ​It stated that the United States would support European powers in fighting Latin American independence movements.
C) ​It was written by President James Monroe and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams.
D) ​The president promised "not to interfere in the internal concerns" of Europe.
E) ​It was written in 1823.

Question 27

The alleged "corrupt bargain" through which John Quincy Adams became elected president took place during the election of

A) ​1820.
B) ​1824.
C) ​1828.
D) ​1832.
E) ​1836.

Question 28

The Erie Canal was completed in ​

A) ​1825.
B) ​1830.
C) ​1832.
D) ​1837.
E) ​1840.

Question 29

The Democratic Party

A) ​formed around John Quincy Adams.
B) ​supported the interests of elites.
C) ​carried out small-scale, exclusive politics.
D) ​favored the white male franchise.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 30

The Missouri Compromise

A) ​was passed in 1820.
B) ​admitted Missouri as a slave state.
C) ​admitted Maine as a free state.
D) ​permitted slavery in the Louisiana territory south of the 36th parallel.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 31

Which of the following changes concerning voting rights began taking place in the early nineteenth century?

A) ​Women were given the right to vote.
B) ​All free blacks were given the right to vote.
C) ​All Protestant men were given the right to vote.
D) ​All white men were given the right to vote.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 32

The American System included ​

A) ​a protective tariff on imports.
B) ​a national bank.
C) ​increased federal land sales.
D) ​federal money for internal improvements.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 33

Internal improvements refer to

A) ​improvements in production methods in factories.
B) ​improvements in transportation and infrastructure for the benefit of commerce.
C) ​improvements in the living quarters of workers living in factory housing.
D) more flexible corporate legislation.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 34

After the Napoleonic Wars​

A) European farmers began producing their crops.​
B) ​demand for American crops decreased.
C) Britain turned back to India for their cotton supply.
D) prices on American land dropped.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 35

The Treaty of Wanghia​

A) ​was a treaty between China and Britain.
B) established a United States embargo of Chinese products.
C) ​gave the United States the same trading benefits as Britain and France.
D) ​established protective tariffs to protect American domestic products from Chinese competition.
E) ​called for the payment of debts owed to Chinese merchants.

Question 36

Eminent domain refers to ​

A) ​a manufacturer's rights to set wages.
B) ​a corporation's legal right to force landowners to sell their property along a turnpike, canal, or railroad.
C) ​a worker's right to strike.
D) ​a company's power to set rules for those living in company towns.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 37

Which of the following is not true about the first Patent Act?​

A) ​It was passed in 1790.
B) It gave inventors a fourteen-year monopoly on machinery and processes they had created.​
C) ​It was also known as an Act to Promote the Progress of Useful Arts.
D) ​It only protected inventions patented inside the United States.
E) ​It protected inventions patented outside the United States.

Question 38

Which of the following was not among those who felt victimized by the economic changes of the nineteenth century?

A) ​artisans
B) ​southern and western white farmers who wanted Indian land
C) ​indebted farmers
D) ​large scale manufacturers
E) ​None of these is correct.

Question 39

Rendezvous points were

A) ​ports where merchant ships would arrive from China.
B) ​places where American and French fur traders would fight for influence.
C) ​annual gatherings in which white and Indian fur trappers would gather to exchange furs for manufactured goods.
D) ​meetings where native peoples and government officials would work out treaties over land ownership and hunting rights.
E) schools where native peoples would be educated in American culture and learn the English language.

Question 40

By 1840, United States trade with China

A) ​was an $8.6 million industry.
B) ​made China the third largest exporter to the United States.
C) ​meant that traders had to establish connections with native peoples in order to export furs and hides to China.
D) ​provided a source of Chinese silk, tea, and porcelain.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 41

Which of these was a Democratic experiment that took place during the first half of the nineteenth century?

A) ​The Cherokee nation expanded men's access to their governments.
B) ​The British Parliament permitted Catholics to serve in Parliament.
C) ​The French King Charles X was forced to abdicate the throne in favor of Louis-Phillipe, the "citizen king."
D) ​Independence movements in Latin America led to the establishment of new republics.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 42

The Whigs

A) ​favored a weak central government.
B) ​were supported strongly by laborers.
C) ​encouraged immigration.
D) ​were supported strongly by businessmen.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 43

Which of the following is not true about the Democratic Party?

A) ​They were suspicious of immigrants.
B) ​They claimed to represent the interests of laborers.
C) ​They were supported by Catholic immigrants.
D) ​They supported state control of internal improvements.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 44

The Indian Removal Act was passed in

A) ​1828.
B) ​1830.
C) ​1832.
D) ​1838.
E) ​1840.

Question 45

The Bankruptcy Act of 1841​

A) ​is still in effect today.
B) ​imposed prison sentences on those who had entered into ventures deemed severely risky.
C) was supported overwhelmingly by creditors.
D) ​was taken advantage of by forty-one thousand Americans from 1841-1843.
E) was nullified by southern states.

Question 46

Which of these groups participated in the Ten Hour Movement?

A) ​the Lowell Female Reform Association
B) ​Philadelphia blacksmiths and carpenters
C) American factory workers
D) ​British factory workers
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 47

The Specie Circular​

A) ​encouraged the use of paper money.
B) encouraged speculation in land markets.
C) ​prohibited the federal government from accepting anything but gold and silver coins as payment for government land.
D) ​prohibited the use of gold and silver currency when trading with Native Americans.
E) ​outlined the outlined the platform for the Democratic party.

Question 48

The Indian Removal Act pushed southeastern Indian groups over the

A) ​Canadian border.
B) ​Ohio River.
C) ​Mississippi River.
D) Mexican Border.
E) ​Great Lakes.

Question 49

Which of these is true about Andrew Jackson and the Second Bank of the United States?​

A) He wanted to destroy the bank and replace its paper money with gold and silver currency.​
B) ​He vetoed the bill to recharter the bank in 1832.
C) ​He argued that the bank was run by the rich and powerful as many of the stockholders were wealthy foreigners.
D) ​He removed all federal deposits from the bank and put them in state banks.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 50

Beginning in the late 1820s, disenfranchised Americans employed the method of _________________  to participate in politics.​

A) ​protesting
B) ​rioting
C) ​letter writing
D) ​petitioning
E) writing newspaper articles​

Question 51

Andrew Jackson's Force Bill​

A) ​would have given him to power to remove Indian peoples of the southeast west of the Mississippi.
B) ​would have given him the power to use the military to collect tariff revenues.
C) ​would have given him the power to use the military to compel states to abide by national laws.
D) ​would have given him the power to use the military for any purpose he saw fit.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 52

The Workingmen's Party​

A) ​was formed in Philadelphia.
B) ​was formed in 1828.
C) ​was inspired by similar organizations in England.
D) ​was formed to represent "the interests and enlightenment of the working classes."
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 53

Aft​er the Panic of 1837,

A) ​there was increasing suspicion about the legality and utility of state charters.
B) ​state charters were curtailed.
C) ​a large number of states defaulted on their loans.
D) ​70 percent of railroad construction was financed by private investment.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 54

Which of the following groups opposed Andrew Jackson? ​

A) ​native-born businessmen
B) anti-tariff Southerners
C) ​defenders of displaced Indians
D) ​those who saw rallies, party platforms and parades as the collapse of the vision of the founding fathers
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 55

Vice President Calhoun's doctrine of nullification was a response to the

A) ​Specie Circular.
B) ​Indian Removal Act.
C) ​Tariff of 1828.
D) ​Panic of 1819.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 56

Andrew Jackson​

A) ​was a supporter of states' rights.
B) ​was a slave owner.
C) ​was a cotton planter.
D) ​opposed nullification.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 57

Cyrus McCormick patented _________________  in 1834.

A) ​the cotton gin
B) ​a horse-drawn reaper
C) a cast iron plow​
D) ​a wooden plow
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 58

The Panic of 1837​

A) ​had international causes.
B) ​happened after banks tried to call in their loans to obtain specie.
C) ​left 30 percent of the workers in York City unemployed.
D) ​was seen by many as an indictment on American democracy.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 59

Third parties​

A) ​spoke for a specific constituency.
B) ​tended to be short-lived.
C) ​tended to center on a particular issue.
D) typically found success when a major party adopted their central issue as its own.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 60

Sectionalism refers to

A) ​identifying with members of one's social class.
B) ​political loyalty to one's own region of the country.
C) loyalty to one's political party.
D) ​loyalty to one's country.
E) ​political identity on the basis of gender.

Question 61

Talk About:  family wage​

Question 62

Talk About:  corporate charters​

Question 63

Talk About:  Patent Act​

Question 64

Talk About:  Honoré Blanc​

Question 65

Talk About:  surplus labor​

Question 66

Talk About:  division of labor​

Question 67

Talk About: Industrial Revolution​

Question 68

Talk About:  Waltham-Lowell System​

Question 69

Talk About:  Erie Canal​

Question 70

Talk About:  bankruptcy​

Question 71

Talk About:  eminent domain​

Question 72

Talk About:  Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward​

Question 73

Talk About:  interchangeable parts​

Question 74

Talk About:  interstate slave trade​

Question 75

Talk About:  internal improvements​

Question 76

Talk About:  turn outs?

Question 77

Talk About:  Francis Cabot Lowell​

Question 78

Talk About:  putting-out system​

Question 79

Talk About:  coffles​

Question 80

Talk About:  General Trades Union​