CHAPTER 12 QUIZ Question 1 Question 2 In Gibbons v Ogden the Supreme Court ruled that Selected Answer states could not restrict trade within their jurisdictions Which statement about Eli Whitney is NOT true Selected Answer The cotton gin was his only significant contribution as an inventor Question 3 The Mormons believed strongly in Selected Answer male authority Question 4 All of the following groups were disliked by nativists EXCEPT Selected Answer Anglo Americans Question 5 Samuel Slater Selected Answer Question 6 Question 7 brought English inventions for manufacturing to America The American Temperance Society concerned itself mainly with Selected Answer changing American attitudes toward alcohol Other than in New England s textile factories the largest group of earliest manufacturing workers were Selected Answer native born males 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Women s treatment within the movement was the final impetus for forming a separate women s rights movement Selected Answer aboliti on Which nation pioneered most of the technological methods and advances of industrialization Selected Answer Great Britain Working class activists of the 1830s promoted all of the following ideas EXCEPT Selected Answer the abolition of private property In 1842 the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in this case that a trade union was not necessarily subject to laws against criminal conspiracies and that a strike could be used to force employers to hire only union members Selected Answer Commonwealth v Hunt During the 1840s and 1850s the highest number of immigrants came from Selected Answer Irelan d How did the American approach to dealing with social problems change in the early to mid 1800s Selected Answer Reformers turned to public authorities to establish new institutions 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points An example of an immediatist would be Selected Answer an abolitionist Question 15 The growing middle class was most likely to find jobs in Selected Answer northern cities Question 16 America s first large scale planned city for the sole purpose of manufacturing was Lowell Selected Answer Massachusetts Question 17 The enormous growth of New York City was fueled by all of the following factors EXCEPT Selected Answer the city s refusal to invest in international connections Question 18 Question 19 School reform succeeded in large part because it appealed to the Selected Answer northern middle classes Eastern elite men with the support of their wives and daughters formed a group of church affiliated reform organizations known as the Selected Answer benevolent empire Question 20 Which statement best summarizes the distribution of wealth in the period 1800 1850 Selected Answer The gap between the rich and the poor grew 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points 5 out of 5 points
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