Chapter 14: Forging the National
Economy Multiple Choice questions and
answer
under the age of thirty - correct answer-MC: In 1850, over one-half of the American
population was
rugged individualism - correct answer-MC: Writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Herman
Melville explored characters who exemplified the American frontier's cultural emphasis on
a distinctive and inspirational feature of American national identity - correct answer-MC:
Americans came to look on their spectacular western wilderness areas especially as
from a greater diversity of European countries - correct answer-MC: Compared to European
immigration to other countries like Australia and Argentina, immigrants to the United States
were
Germany and Ireland - correct answer-MC: The two leading sources of European
immigration to American in the 1840s and 1850s were
it was seen as a strange foreign religion under total control of an authoritarian pope - correct
answer-MC: Many 19th century Americans feared and distrusted Roman Catholicism
because
there was a shortage of labor, capital, and consumers - correct answer-MC: Industrialization
was, at first, slow to arrive in America because
textile industry - correct answer-MC: The first industry to be substantially dominated by the
new factory system of mass manufacturing was the
women and children - correct answer-MC: Wages for most American workers rose in the
early nineteenth century, except for the most exploited workers like
a decline in the average number of children per household - correct answer-MC: A major
change affecting the American family in the early nineteenth century was
young and single - correct answer-MC: In early 19th century America, almost all the women
who worked for wages in the new factories were
tie the agricultural Midwest by trade to the Northeast rather than to the South - correct
answer-MC: The greatest economic and political impact of New York's Erie Canal was to
Economy Multiple Choice questions and
answer
under the age of thirty - correct answer-MC: In 1850, over one-half of the American
population was
rugged individualism - correct answer-MC: Writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Herman
Melville explored characters who exemplified the American frontier's cultural emphasis on
a distinctive and inspirational feature of American national identity - correct answer-MC:
Americans came to look on their spectacular western wilderness areas especially as
from a greater diversity of European countries - correct answer-MC: Compared to European
immigration to other countries like Australia and Argentina, immigrants to the United States
were
Germany and Ireland - correct answer-MC: The two leading sources of European
immigration to American in the 1840s and 1850s were
it was seen as a strange foreign religion under total control of an authoritarian pope - correct
answer-MC: Many 19th century Americans feared and distrusted Roman Catholicism
because
there was a shortage of labor, capital, and consumers - correct answer-MC: Industrialization
was, at first, slow to arrive in America because
textile industry - correct answer-MC: The first industry to be substantially dominated by the
new factory system of mass manufacturing was the
women and children - correct answer-MC: Wages for most American workers rose in the
early nineteenth century, except for the most exploited workers like
a decline in the average number of children per household - correct answer-MC: A major
change affecting the American family in the early nineteenth century was
young and single - correct answer-MC: In early 19th century America, almost all the women
who worked for wages in the new factories were
tie the agricultural Midwest by trade to the Northeast rather than to the South - correct
answer-MC: The greatest economic and political impact of New York's Erie Canal was to
