1 .		Although technology brought a revolution in manufacturing to the United States in the early nineteenth century, the country's economy remained primarily agricultural. [Hint]  True  False
2 .		By 1820, the factory system produced the vast bulk of manufactured goods used by Americans. [Hint]  True  False
3 .		In the early nineteenth century, venture capital was easily available to anyone willing to form a corporation and invest in manufacturing by the factory system. [Hint]  True  False
4 .		In the short run, the influx of thousands of immigrants in the 1830s and 1840s depressed living standards, but in the long run they stimulated America's economy. [Hint]  True  False
5 .		As the importance of skilled labor declined in the early nineteenth century, the United States developed a self-conscious working class. [Hint]  True  False
6 .		Most of early nineteenth-century America's cotton crop was exported. [Hint]  True  False
7 .		Most southern whites supported the move to colonize blacks in Africa, especially when the early nineteenth-century cotton boom began. [Hint]  True  False
8 .		While they remained objects of white prejudice, most northern free blacks enjoyed the right to vote, access to education, and a decent job. [Hint]  True  False
9 .		The early nineteenth-century West's major problem was its need for transportation improvements. [Hint]  True  False
10 .		Private investors built most of the early nineteenth-century's improved highways and bridges linking markets in the East and West. [Hint]  True  False
11 .		The newly invented steamboat was most profitably employed in carrying trade goods from port to port along the Atlantic coast. [Hint]  True  False
12 .		Canals further improved the network of interregional transportation because they were less expensive and easier to build than roadways. [Hint]  True  False
13 .		New York City was the nation's largest city even before the Erie Canal linked it to the Northwest trade. [Hint]  True  False
14 .		The canal boom substantially lowered east-west transportation costs. [Hint]  True  False
15 .		In the boom economy of early nineteenth-century America, government at any level rarely became involved in the promotion of economic development. [Hint]  True  False