The growth of American industry in the 1830s and 1840s was influenced by the __________
a. lack of quality craftsmen
b. development of mass production
c. discovery of oil in Pennsylvania
d. rejection of agricultural jobs by youth
e. increase in immigrants from eastern Europe and Asia
B
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Why did workingmen's movements in eastern cities focus on the demand for public education?
a. Free schools were a way to counter the prevailing economic divide. b. Workingmen's movements were solely educational reform movements. c. The Protestant working class objected to the Catholic free schools. d. Taxation was used to finance only private schools for the rich.
Tension between Russia and Britain arose during the conference at Aix-la-Chapelle due to __________.
A. disagreements over the purpose of the Quadruple Alliance B. disagreements over allowing France to rejoin the international community C. Prussian ambitions in eastern Europe D. the fate of the Ottoman Empire
The creation of a domestic market, the development of cheap transportation, the rise of cities, and the availability of capital and credit can all be seen to have stimulated the shift to factory production. Choose three of these factors and explain how they contributed to the rise of factories.
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Hamilton's proposal concerning the assumption of state debts became law as a result of which of the following?
A. A political deal was struck by which the site for the nation's capital was to be on the Potomac River. B. Having served under President Washington's command during the Revolutionary War, several opponents of the plan switched their votes out of a sense of duty. C. President Washington met privately with Madison and Jefferson, and convinced them that their opposition to the proposal was divisive. D. A joint Senate-House subcommittee agreed that those states that had paid their debts would be taxed at a lower rate than those whose debts were being assumed.