APUSH Reading Quizzes - Period 4 9.1-9.2

Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the United States in the nineteenth century?

Railroads

In the 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, the Marshall Court's decision a. reaffirmed the concept of state control over interstate commerce. b. reaffirmed the concept of county or city control over interstate commerce. c. permitted local or state monopolies if they benefited the common good. d. overturned New York law that granted a monopoly on steamboat travel into New York City.

overturned New York law that granted a monopoly on steamboat travel into New York City.

How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?

By passing protective tariffs

Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America?

It brought workers together under one roof in a factory.

The construction of the Erie Canal, the first great engineering project in American history, was successful for which of the following reasons?

It increased the speed of shipping and travel while greatly lowering its cost.

Which of the following statements describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system?

Its creators recruited farm girls and women to work in factories.

Which inventor is properly matched with the item he invented? a. Cyrus McCormick—the Clermont b. Samuel Colt—interchangeable parts c. Eli Whitney—the reaper d. John Deere—the steel plow

John Deere—the steel plow

In the first half of the nineteenth century, American manufacturers' main advantage over the British mills was that they had access to which of the following?

More natural resources

By the 1830s, coal and metal manufacturers increasingly used which of the following to run machinery?

Steam engines

The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following?

The Market Revolution

How did the appearance of canals and steamboats in the United States affect the flow of goods and information during the 1830s?

The canals and steamboats cut in half most travel and communication time.

Around the 1830s, what new form of manufacturing emerged in America?

The fabrication of metal products

Which of the following was one of the ways that wage-workers strove to resist their bosses' efforts to control their non-work lives in the early to mid-nineteenth century

They built a robust workers' culture that preserved their autonomy outside work.

Why did Congress approve funds for the construction of the National Road in 1806?

To link midwestern settlers to the seaboard states

The concept that the price of a product should reflect the work required to make it is known as

the labor theory of value