Chapter 9 & Lectures 21-23

1.

1 point

What effect did the spread of industrialization in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s have on artisans?

Employers and the courts blocked all their efforts to form craft unions in order to seek higher wages and better working conditions.

As machines changed the nature of their work, shoemakers, hatters, printers, furniture makers, and weavers faced declining income, unemployment, and loss of status.

The wave of strikes that broke out in 1836 were put down by federal troops on orders from President Jackson.

They tried, but usually failed, to avoid the regimentation of factory work by moving to small towns or by setting up small, specialized shops that catered to a limited market.

2.

1 point

After 1820, migration patterns of persons settling the American interior included which of the following?

Those from New York into the Great Lakes basin

Those from New Orleans up the Mississippi River Valley into the Ohio and Missouri valleys

Those from the Lower South into Missouri and Arkansas

Those from New England and the Upper South into the Great Lakes basin

3.

1 point

According to Jay and Clay, Indian trouble on the Frontier, and harassment on the High Seas, was a direct result of the dreaded:

Plauge

French

National Bank

British

4.

1 point

The increase of farmer dependence on distant markets resulted in:

increased farmer debt

increased farmer bankruptcy

devaluation of the dollar

increased farmer reliance on distant credit markets

5.

1 point

In the 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, the Marshall Court

declared illegal a New York law that granted a monopoly on steamboat travel into New York City.

allowed a local or state monopoly if it benefited the users and local customers.

reaffirmed county or city control over interstate commerce.

reaffirmed state control over interstate commerce.

6.

1 point

The American System engineered by Henry Clay, included

a new military program to build a chain of turnpikes roads and canals

Preservation of the Bank of the United States

Maintenance of high public land prices to generate federal revenue

tariffs to protect our manufacturing

7.

1 point

Long term series of activities by reform organizations to encourage individuals and governments to limit the consumption of alcohol

8.

1 point

What prevented the British from putting Baltimore to the torch in 1814?

The stubborn defense of Ft. Mc Henry

A British communications disaster on the Chesapeake

General Wilkenson's staunch defense of Baltimore after the burning of Washington

Sudden storms which prevented free travel to Baltimore

9.

1 point

In 1817, New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, floated a risky bond of $7 million, for the purpose of:

Building a canal to link Buffalo to Albany

Building an underground transit system for New York City

Building a railroad to link Buffalo to Albany

Buying Upper Canada, which had been secured during the War of 1812

10.

1 point

What was the greatest American "bright spot" associated with the War of 1812 (which occurred two weeks following the Treaty of Ghent)?

Perry's victory at Lake Erie

Jackson's victory at New Orleans

Wilkinson's victory at Ft. Detroit

Dolly Madison's saving Washington's portrait

11.

1 point

Land speculators would purchase sections of 640 acres at $2.00 an acre, divide them and then sell them to individual farmers at a profit. In 1819, Congress:

Dropped the price per acre to $1.25

gave the newly arrived immigrants 80 free acres to entice them away from the cities.

Lowered the minimum tract size to 80 acres

Eliminated interest payments on land purchases

12.

1 point

Lt. Oliver Hazard Perry:

Captured Ft. Detroit, and thus controlled Upper Canada in the War of 1812

Acquired a 12 boat flotilla which defeated an entire British squadron on Lake Erie, thus controlling Upper Canada in the War of 18212

Helped Dolly Madison save precious art in the War of 1812

Was third in command in the Corps of Discovery

13.

1 point

The "War Hawks" believed that the American Army and Militia could easily:

Bring the British to submission by invading Canada

Build an army of 100,000 and the world's best navy by initiating a draft and tax effort.

Divert the Federalists by invading Florida

Defeat the Indians by building a line of forts across the Frontier

14.

1 point

The Waltham plan

strictly supervised the behavior of its factory workers.

refused, on moral grounds, to employ women as machine operators.

employed only women workers.

paid significantly higher wages than other employment plans.

15.

1 point

Replaced canals as the center of the national transportation system, transported huge amounts of people and goods, increased westward expansion.

16.

1 point

The boarding of the American vessel Caravan in July 1807 by HMS Diana helped precipitated what event.

The Napoleonic War

An American embargo with Great Britain

The War of 1812

The French and Indian War

17.

1 point

In 1806, Congress approved funds for the construction of a road tying the Midwest to the seaboard states, called the

Santa Fe Trail.

Lancaster Turnpike.

National Road.

Cumberland Trail.

18.

1 point

Standard that proposed that the price of a good should reflect the labor required to make it and most the money its sale should go to the individuals who made it

19.

1 point

An evangelist who called for social reform. He also made the "anxious bench" for sinners to pray and was was against slavery and alcohol.

20.

1 point

Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the emergence of the textile industry in the United States?

American mechanics apprenticed in England to learn textile industrial technology so that they could return as journeymen or master textile craftsmen in the rising American textile industry.

American textile mills were unable to compete with the British mills because America lacked the necessary natural resources.

British textile manufacturers readily sold patents for machinery and other technology to American textile mill owners.

American textile producers improved on British technology.