Question 1
What were the two most significant sources for cheap labor that allowed the United States to rapidly industrialize between 1860 and 1900?
A) immigrants and American-born workers moving from rural areas
B) women and children
C) African Americans and Chinese laborers
D) immigrants and African Americans
Question 2
The improvements in communication that took place between 1817 and 1841 as shown on this map were largely due to __________.
A) Indian removal from the South and West
B) national dependence on Southern cash crops
C) improvements in transportation
D) development of factories in New England and the mid-Atlantic
Question 3
Which of the following contributed to Christian envy, suspicion, and distrust toward the Jews?
A. the separateness of the Jews
B. lack of Jewish economic power
C. rich Christian cultural strength
D. the church's laws forbidding Jews from hiring Christians
E. the exile of Jews from France
Question 4
Towns were attractive to monarchs for all of the following reasons EXCEPT they ________.
A. provided a ready source of educated bureaucrats
B. had lawyers who knew Roman law
C. were good sources of money
D. lessened the king's need to rely on the nobility
E. contained vast quantities of loyal soldiers
Question 5
To maintain social order and keep people in their places, city councils did all of the following EXCEPT ________.
A. limit the types of clothing one might wear
B. punish overtly conspicuous consumption
C. encourage merchants to depart for the countryside
D. limit the amount of clothing one might wear
E. restrict the way a person might decorate the home
Question 6
What was one theme about the impact of the market revolution and industrialization that George Inness addressed in his 1855 painting The Lackawanna Valley?
A) Traditional farm life was in direct conflict with industrialization.
B) Economic development took a toll on the landscape.
C) Paintings became accurate forms of advertisement for the first time.
D) Artistic truth was more important than the necessities of the marketplace.