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Chapter 8: Toward a National Economy

Multiple Choice Quiz #1

Multiple Choice Quiz #1
This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the button next to the answer you believe is correct. When you are done, click “Submit for Grade” in order to see how well you did.

This activity contains 9 questions.

	In the United States, the Industrial Revolution began with major technological innovations in   transportation. textile manufacturing. the steel industry. shoe and boot manufacturing. the machine tool industry.

	It would be LEAST accurate to say that most early nineteenth-century immigrants to the United States   because of both "push" and "pull" factors. came from northwestern European countries. were middle-class Protestants. migrated for economic reasons. settled in the Northeast and Middle West.

	The Waltham System employed _____ as factory laborers in the textile industry.   young single women poor children freed slaves Irish immigrants apprentices

	The United States' rising export of this item helped pay for much-needed European products.   machinery cotton corn gold textiles

	The movement to deport and colonize blacks was unsuccessful primarily because   it was opposed by the nation's most respected leaders. most northern whites opposed segregation of the races. no person or group would pay for it. northern free blacks opposed it. there was an increasing demand for slave labor in the South

	The first dramatic decline in freight rates in the east-west trade occurred with the construction of   turnpikes. bridges. canals. railroads. boxcars.

	________ was the primary beneficiary of the Erie Canal, while ________ was the primary beneficiary of the steamboat.   Baltimore; New Orleans New York State; New Orleans Philadelphia; Louisville New York State; Cincinnati Buffalo; Rochester

	The most supportive ruling the Marshall Court gave to the concept of implied powers came in its decision in   Charles River Bridge. Gibbons v. Ogden. Marbury v. Madison. McCulloch v. Maryland. Dartmouth College v. Woodward.

	Chief Justice Marshall viewed economic affairs as   broadly national. specifically the jurisdiction of states. unwaveringly regional. outside the interests of the Court. unimportant.

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