Chapter 9/10 quiz
Which of the following statements describes the impact of the Jacksonian-era constitutional revolution on the states?
Between 1830 and 1860, twenty states revised their charters and enhanced democracy.
Which of these did elite Americans embrace after the Industrial Revolution in order to set themselves apart from other groups of Americans?
Conspicuous displays of their wealth through clothing and housing
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.
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
Which of the following characterizes patterns of immigration into the United States during the 1840s and 1850s?
Most of the Irish who arrived in the United States were poverty-stricken peasants.
On which issue was the Whig philosophy of the 1830s critically different from that of the Federalists in the 1790s?
Rule by an elite based on talen
In the election of 1840, Whigs boosted their electoral hopes by appealing to which of the following groups?
Women
In the U.S. Supreme Court case of Worcester v. Georgia (1832), John Marshall and the Court majority issued a decision that
upheld Indian nations' political authority in their communities.
Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America?
Irish immigrants
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.
How did the spread of industrialization in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s affect skilled artisans?
As machines changed the nature of their work, shoemakers, hatters, printers, furniture makers, and weavers faced declining income, job insecurity, and loss of status.
Why did Andrew Jackson veto the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?
He thought it interfered with the rights of states and the liberties of the people.
Which of the following statements describes events surrounding the election of 1824?
John Quincy Adams became president even though Andrew Jackson had more popular votes.
Which of the following were the three key elements of Clay's American system?
Protective tariff, internal improvements, and the national bank
The 1832 Ordinance of Nullification was based on which of the following beliefs?
States had the right to determine which congressional laws they would enforce
Which of the following elements defined the Democrats under Andrew Jackson?
Support for average Americans
What did the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution specify should be done in an election like the election of 1824, in which no presidential candidate received a majority of the electoral votes?
The House of Representatives decides the outcome.
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.
Which of these inventions spurred the growth of agriculture in the Midwest in the 1840s?
The steel plow
