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Chapter 13: The Sections Go Their Ways

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.

	By the middle of the nineteenth century, the nation's economy was marked by all of the following EXCEPT   several transportation improvements. growth in size of units of production. regional specialization of production. increasing interregional dependence. the decline of slavery.

	Generally, southern whites did NOT believe that slaves were   content with their enslavement. incapable of hard work. inferior. innately lazy. prone to rebellion.

	In the antebellum period, slaves were NOT able to develop   ways to passively resist slave owners and overseers. a sense of their own self-worth. individual self-reliance. their own slave culture.. a strong sense of community.

	Most immigrants to mid-nineteenth-century America were attracted by the promise of   economic opportunity. political freedom.. social respect. sanitary living conditions. religious freedom..

	In mid-nineteenth-century America   Americans enjoyed a relatively high standard of living. immigrants were not settling in cities. geographical population mobility was declining. class distinctions were narrowing. faith in the idea of egalitarian democracy was fading.

	America's dominance in the shipbuilding industry was most severely challenged by the development of ocean going   clipper ships. commerce raiders. steamships. sailing packets. whalers.

	Most of the capital available for railroad construction before the Civil War was supplied by   local community loans. state tax exemptions. private investors. land speculators. federal land grants.

	_______ became the railroad center of the Midwest by 1860.   St. Louis Indianapolis Louisville Chicago Cincinnati

	The coming of the railroad and machinery to western farmers did NOT increase their   self-sufficiency. access to national markets. operating costs. productivity. reliance on middlemen.

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