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Chapter 8: Toward a National Economy

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	The first American factory began production in December 1790.    True  False

	By 1820, the factory system produced the vast bulk of manufactured goods used by Americans.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	Most of early nineteenth-century America's cotton crop was exported.    True  False

	Most southern whites supported the move to colonize blacks in Africa, especially when the early nineteenth-century cotton boom began.    True  False

	While they remained objects of white prejudice, most northern free blacks enjoyed the right to vote, access to education, and a decent job.    True  False

	The early nineteenth-century West's major problem was its need for transportation improvements.    True  False

	Private investors built most of the early nineteenth-century's improved highways and bridges linking markets in the East and West.    True  False

	The newly invented steamboat was most profitably employed in carrying trade goods from port to port along the Atlantic coast.    True  False

	Canals further improved the network of interregional transportation because they were less expensive and easier to build than roadways.    True  False

	New York City was the nation's largest city even before the Erie Canal linked it to the Northwest trade.    True  False

	The Erie Canal was an immediate financial success.    True  False

	Chief Justice John Marshall's decisions were notoriously anti-business.    True  False

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