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Quiz #4

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The "putting-out" system of production referred to
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the system whereby manufacturers would pay a family to perform one task in producing an item.
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The middle class
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emerged with the factory system, and the creation of managers and supervisors.
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The Grange was
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a national farm movement that sought political solutions to farmers' economic problems.
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All of the following are true about the Cumberland Road, except
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The road was widely considered sufficient for the region's commercial infrastructure needs.
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By the 1850s, the cornerstone of America's transportation system was
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railroads.
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Which of the following happened during the Market Revolution?
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A growing number of farmers began to focus on single crops that they could sell for profit, rather than only growing what they needed to be self-sufficient.
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The key development in the communications revolution was the
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telegraph.
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All of the following are true about 19th century railroads, except
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Railroads crisscrossed the South far more densely than in the North.
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Among the American Federation of Labor's successes were all of the following except
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The AFL achieved all of these successes.
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Congress awarded more than 200 million acres to investors who wanted to move westward and
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build railroads connecting the East and West.
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Who of the following did not support the economic plan called the American System?
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Southern cotton plantation owners
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Housing for factory workers was so bad in the late 1800s, and city sanitation was so poor, that epidemics of ____ swept through whole cities.
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typhoid
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By 1850, the percentage of the American labor force employed in agriculture had declined to
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55 percent.
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In Gibbons v. Ogden the Supreme Court
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confirmed the federal government's power to regulate commerce overruled that of the states.
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All of these were key components of the American System except
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a self-sustaining agricultural system.
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The Erie Canal
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connected the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo.
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The need to market goods over wider areas gave rise to new forms of
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advertising.
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The Homestead Act of 1862 provided a way for settlers to move West, occupy land for five years, and then claim as their own a total of
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160 acres.