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The chapter introduction tells the story of clockmaker Chauncey Jerome to make the point that: |
| | A) | clocks both made possible and symbolized the organized routines of an industrialized society. |
| | B) | Jerome's rise and fall were made possible by the opportunities offered in a national market economy that bound Americans together in complex and specialized ways. |
| | C) | the intricate but comprehensible mechanism of a clock was the favorite metaphor for an age that believed human reason could discern the workings of natural law and apply those discoveries to improving the material conditions of life. |
| | D) | Jerome exemplifies the exploited urban laborer who becomes a helpless victim of the forces of rapid and relentless industrialization. |
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The story of John Burrows makes the point that: |
| | A) | Merchants in cities had a substantial advantage over merchants in more remote areas. |
| | B) | Potato farming was a risky business in the early nineteenth century. |
| | C) | A market economy required efficient communications as well as rapid methods of transporting goods. |
| | D) | A market economy could not function based on water transportation alone. |
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The Erie Canal: |
| | A) | was made financially feasible by the development of the steamboat. |
| | B) | connected the Hudson and Ohio rivers. |
| | C) | never repaid the original public investment, but stimulated migration and economic growth. |
| | D) | raised New York City to commercial dominance and stimulated canal construction by other cities and states. |
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Taken as a body of legal doctrine, the rulings of the Marshall Court created a climate of business confidence by: |
| | A) | enlarging federal power at the expense of the states. |
| | B) | expanding individual economic rights by limiting government's role in stimulating the economy. |
| | C) | protecting minority groups against the abuse of power by majorities. |
| | D) | protecting property and contract rights while limiting state interference in business affairs. |
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Corporations were an advantageous form for an expanding economy for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: |
| | A) | they could make contracts with state governments. |
| | B) | they continued beyond the lives of the individuals who created them. |
| | C) | they provided a way to pool investors' resources to raise capital for large-scale projects. |
| | D) | they offered a limitation of liability for the investor. |
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Europeans especially noted what tendency in American life? |
| | A) | the emphasis on motion and speed that pervaded every aspect of life, even eating |
| | B) | the tendency for native-born Americans to stay east of the Appalachians, while immigrants settled in the new western lands |
| | C) | how rooted to a particular place Americans tended to be, despite geographic mobility |
| | D) | how religious and other-worldly Americans tended to be, despite rapid economic growth |
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The factory system began in which industry? |
| | A) | textiles |
| | B) | shoemaking |
| | C) | firearms |
| | D) | iron production |
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The model factory community at Lowell: |
| | A) | emphasized profits over all else. |
| | B) | relied primarily on child labor. |
| | C) | employed the daughters of New England farm families. |
| | D) | housed their workers in family units. |
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Factory workers had a difficult time adjusting to: |
| | A) | the wages of factory work. |
| | B) | the disciplined work routine. |
| | C) | working alongside women. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
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The market revolution created a society that was more differentiated and specialized, which, in turn, led to: |
| | A) | specialized labor unions that grew most rapidly in the depression of the late 1830s. |
| | B) | an increased pride in craftsmanship that became more important than just sheer productivity. |
| | C) | greater extremes of wealth, with those at the top controlling a greater share of the wealth. |
| | D) | a class of new rich, most of whom came from lower-class farm family backgrounds. |
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Economic specialization meant that women: |
| | A) | made more of their family's clothes than ever before. |
| | B) | began buying manufactured cloth rather than making their own. |
| | C) | began doing more agricultural work to compensate for the loss of their traditional duties within the home. |
| | D) | began having more babies to compensate for the loss of their traditional duties within the home. |
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That Americans accepted social mobility, materialism, and other values of a market economy can be seen in an emerging middle class: |
| | A) | drawn largely from those engaged in the mechanical trades. |
| | B) | who built neighborhoods near their places of employment in the new urban business districts. |
| | C) | whose income and wealth quickly rose to the levels of the very wealthy. |
| | D) | whose members judged success and status in terms of consumption and possessions. |
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The experience of Kingston, New York reveals: |
| | A) | how the existence of a transportation network could significantly alter the fortunes of a town. |
| | B) | the dangers of segregating residential areas along class lines. |
| | C) | the importance of farming in the market economy. |
| | D) | the transformations of the Second Great Awakening. |
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The Panic of 1819 was so significant because: |
| | A) | the nation had never before experienced economic hard times. |
| | B) | in reaction, land prices rose to speculative heights. |
| | C) | as the first major American depression, it affected city and farm dwellers alike. |
| | D) | it prompted a frenzy of canal building. |
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