For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance.
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Intangible factors contributing to America's antebellum economic growth included the
A) steady issue of government patents for new tools and machines. B) rapid expansion of and improvement in transportation networks. C) entrepreneurial mentality and mechanical nature of most Americans. D) need to compensate for the continual shortage of labor and goods.
Supporters of the new People's Party founded in 1890 called themselves:
A) Populists. B) Egalitarians. C) Partisans. D) Socialists.
List three ways the government promoted economic growth after 1815. Which do you think was the most important, and why?
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In the eighteenth century, population growth and societal pressures affected colonial society in all of the following ways EXCEPT that
A) some colonists became tenant farmers to earn money to buy their own land. B) many colonists relocated to the western edges of the colonies to claim land. C) some young adults waited to acquire their own land before marrying. D) more and more colonists moved out of the cities to escape overcrowding. E) the richest colonists owned an increasingly larger percentage of America's wealth.