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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

The Opening of America (1815-1850)

Multiple Choice


1	The New Nationalism, a program designed to promote internal economic development following the War of 1812, was pushed by a group of aggressive young Republican nationalists. It included all EXCEPT:
		A)	a protective tariff.
		B)	aid to internal improvements.
		C)	a national bank.
		D)	high new taxes to pay off the war debt.


2	The transportation revolution:
		A)	lowered the cost of moving goods across land.
		B)	was important primarily for reducing the time to ship goods to Europe.
		C)	helped develop the East but had little importance in the West.
		D)	depended entirely on private investment.


3	During the quarter-century after the War of 1812 ended, the major expansive force in the American economy was:
		A)	land sales.
		B)	cotton production.
		C)	textile manufacture.
		D)	canal construction.


4	As commercial agriculture emerged in the United States, farmers engaged in all of the following EXCEPT:
		A)	cultivating more acreage.
		B)	marketing their own crops.
		C)	adopting scientific farming methods.
		D)	conducting transactions in cash


5	In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court:
		A)	gave Maryland the authority to tax the Bank of the United States.
		B)	overturned a law creating a state-supported bank in Maryland.
		C)	accepted the doctrine of implied powers and expanded the authority of the national government.
		D)	used the concept of strict construction to limit the role of the federal government in economic affairs.


6	A striking element of American society in the early nineteenth century was:
		A)	the desire to establish deep roots in a community.
		B)	an emphasis on speed and mobility.
		C)	an interest in peace and quiet.
		D)	the importance placed on proper manners


7	All of the following help account for the shift to factory production EXCEPT:
		A)	a growing accessible market.
		B)	the availability of investment capital and credit.
		C)	the availability of workers.
		D)	inventions that gave the United States a head start over Europeans.


8	For workers, the factories at Lowell before 1845 depended on:
		A)	children.
		B)	young women.
		C)	widows.
		D)	immigrants.


9	The mountain men of the American West were:
		A)	not tied to a national economic structure.
		B)	malcontents and sociopaths who wanted nothing to do with society.
		C)	discontented with industrial society, and they left their factories in the East to escape the market economy.
		D)	expectant capitalists who played an active role in the emerging national market economy


10	The Panic of 1819 is significant because it:
		A)	marked the last major American depression until 1929.
		B)	ended the optimistic nationalism that followed the War of 1812.
		C)	delayed the growth of the market economy until after 1865.
		D)	created a huge deficit for the national government.

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