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As a consequence of the expansive growth in the U.S. economy associated with the market revolution, skilled free black workers found their statuses and incomes rising. True False
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Ely Whitney's invention of the cotton gin improved the lives of millions of African-Americans. True False
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of Walden. True False
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The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution. True False
false
The cotton gin was a beverage invented by Eli Whitney. True False
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According to Alexis de Tocqueville, Americans believed that they were the only "enlightened" and "free" people in the world. True False
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America's early factories drew largely upon the labor of women and children. True False
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Cincinnati was known as "porkopolis" because of its slaughterhouses, in which hundreds of thousands of pigs were butchered each year. True False
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During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth. True False
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Free blacks were largely denied access to the material opportunities generated by the market revolution. True False
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Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money. True False
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In Thoreau's view, the market revolution degraded both peoples' values and the natural environment. True False
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In the nineteenth century, a married woman could not legally sign independent contracts; she could not sue someone in court in her own name; and not until after the Civil War could she, not her husband, control the wages she earned. True False
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Numerous of Americans' lives were improved by the nineteenth century market revolution. True False
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The largest group of immigrants to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s came from Ireland, then in the throes of the great potato famine. True False
true
The market revolution in nineteenth-century United States produced dynamic and expansive growth in the nation's output and in trade, and a rising standard of living for millions of Americans. True False
true
The market revolution swept over the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. True False
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The rise of the corporation was crucial to the success of the market economy. True False
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There was a rapid decline in the birthrate during the course of the nineteenth century and by 1900, women on average had four children, True False
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Workingmen formed political parties in the late 1820s and among the goals of these ephemeral political parties were free public education, an end to imprisonment for debt, and a ten-hour workday. True False
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