Author Question: While Hamilton promoted factories as the key to the nation's economic future, Jefferson emphasized ... (Read 66 times)

nramada · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

While Hamilton promoted factories as the key to the nation's economic future, Jefferson emphasized farming because

A) America had so much land that it seemed to offer opportunities for social mobility to a wide segment of the population.
B) Jefferson saw factories as celebrating subservience and stifling the virtue that farm life cultivated.
C) Jefferson believed that farming would promote emigration and provide employment and food for the new nation.
D) Jefferson believed most of the goods that factories produced could be imported; therefore, America didn't need to rely on its own industrialization.
E) None of these choices

Question 2

What made Jay's Treaty controversial?

A) It ended the British practice of impressments by promising to look the other way at Britain's.
B) It arranged for withdrawal of British troops from American soil, and granted access to British West Indies markets but only by bargaining away US rights to load cargoes of sugar, molasses and coffee from the French during wartime.
C) It reopened the French West Indies trade to American ships but closed lucrative markets in the British West Indies.
D) It won recognition of the thirty-first parallel as the United States' southern boundary but required the U.S. to relinquish its rights to Louisiana.
E) It settled the issue of compensation for slaves taken during the Revolution at less than half their actual value.