1) Cincinnati and St. Louis grew rapidly due to inter-regional trade.
2) What was an irony about the cotton gin?
- a. The inventor of the machine was from the North.
- b. Slaves did not really need it.
- c. Cotton demand actually decreased.
- d. Most slaves did not know how to work it.
- e. The device did not need gin to work properly.
3)In the essay "Factory Life as It Is by an Operative," how does the writer assess her world?
- a. She saw the wealthy as hypocrites.
- b. She did not believe enough jobs had been created.
- c. She did not appreciate what had happened to the artisans.
- d. She marveled at the technology in the factory.
- e. She believed it was best to keep quiet about her work.
4) The idea of leveling the playing field between worker and management was best personified in the writings of which American?
- a. Joseph Smith.
- b. Karl Marx.
- c. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- d. Orestes Brownson.
- e. Henry David Thoreau.
5) The Workingman's Parties would praise what twenty-first-century activity?
- a. A company downsizes to bring in more profit.
- b. The president orders strikers to return to work.
- c. The federal minimum wage is raised.
- d. A corporation prevents its workers from fraternizing.
- e. Technology is used to replace workers in a factory.
6) How did westward movement affect the South?
- a. Trade with the eastern United States was no longer seen as a priority.
- b. The plantation slave-based economy was replicated in Alabama and Mississippi.
- c. The lack of canals slowed down the use of slaves.
- d. Slavery did not expand west of the Appalachian Mountains.
- e. The South developed a highly effective and large railroad system to transport goods from west to east.
7) What was a factor in the nation's acquisition of Florida from Spain?
- a. The United States seized Tallahassee.
- b. Businessmen hoped soft sandy beaches would bring in tourist money.
- c. Spain no longer mined for gold in Florida.
- d. Abolitionists hoped to create refuge for fugitive slaves.
- e. Andrew Jackson led an army to invade Florida, subsequently killing British agents.
8) What physical geographical feature in the Old Northwest served as an internal borderland?
- a. The Mississippi River.
- b. The Appalachian Mountains.
- c. Lake Michigan.
- d. Lake Erie.
- e. The Ohio River.