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True or False: The founding fathers who drafted the American Constitution were democratic in their
political ideology. - Answers False, not democratic but elitist
True or False: After the War of 1812, American merchant capital shifted from international commerce to
the development of the domestic market. - Answers True, Market Revolution
True or False: "Accommodation" to slavery by slaves themselves constituted a form of class struggle--
doing as little as possible, engaging in thievery and sabotage, and pretending to be incapable of learning
complex tasks. - Answers True
True or False: The introduction of the sewing machine in the late 1840s greatly improved the working
conditions and income of outworkers in the clothing industry. - Answers False, Worse working
conditions, sewing machines helped get rid of outworkers, created factories.
True or False: Although a supporter of "states rights," Jackson refused to allow state governments to
take over lands granted to Indians by the Federal Government. - Answers False, Trail of Tears, he moved
Indians allowing State Governments to take land
True or False: In antebellum America the capitalist revolution created a new "middle class" of well-to-do
commercial farmers and urban manufacturers. - Answers True
True or False: The Erie Canal inaugurated a capitalist transformation of the United States by creating a
huge domestic market connecting the Northwest and the Northeast. - Answers True
True or False: During the Nullification Crisis Jackson maintained that "states rights" existed prior to the
Union and therefore existed independently of the Union. - Answers False, Calhoon not Jackson
True or False: Profits from ready-made clothing produced by companies like Brooks Brothers were
initially low because less-skilled women outworkers had to be used to make up for a shortage of skilled
artisans. - Answers False, more less-skilled workers did faster work in industry
True or False: The slave mode of production had to expand or it would die from soil exhaustion and a
large slave population that would be no longer profitable. - Answers True????
True or False: The economic crashes of 1819-22, 1837-43, and 1857-9 were caused by excessive
government regulation of the economy and excessively high wages demanded by organized workers. -
Answers False
Crashes were due to inflation and financial bubbles created by unbacked credit given by companies and
banks.
True or False: In order to insure that wealthy speculators be paid full face value for their revolutionary
war bonds, Hamilton proposed the federal government assume the debts of the states as part of the
national debt. - Answers True
, True or False: Capitalism privileges property rights over community rights; democracy privileges
community rights over property rights. - Answers True
True or False: The antebellum South had a dual economy consisting of plantations at the commercial
center and yeoman "subsistence plus" farmers on the periphery. - Answers True
True or False: "Speed up" and "stretch-out" were techniques used by Lowell textile manufacturers to
make operatives more productive as "premiums" (piece rates paid to workers) began to increase
dramatically in the 1830s. - Answers True
True or False: According to capitalist "free labor" ideology, wage labor cannot be "wage slavery" since
wage laborers possess legal equality with their employers, freedom of conscience, the right to a home
and family, and the opportunity for upward mobility. - Answers True
True or False: Elected Mayor of Lynn on the basis of strong working-class support, George Hood used
democratic politics to deflect worker demands for "equal rights" away from a critique of capitalist
production as a whole and onto single issues and minor reforms. - Answers True
True or False: Jacksonian democracy applied only to men and women who were "free, white, and 21." -
Answers False, Free, white, and 21 referred only to free white men over the age of 21.
True or False: For industrial workers in antebellum manufacturing centers, "free labor" meant creating a
new economic independence and a new moral community in the form of trade unions. - Answers True
True or False: In order to insure the legitimacy of the Constitution, its supporters were concerned that
the ratification process be carried out slowly and deliberately in order that the will of the majority would
prevail. - Answers False, The rushed its ratification so the majority would not be able to have a voice.
True or False: When artisan shoemakers of Lynn spoke of "equal rights" they meant "producers" having
control over their work and the fruits of their labor (and an end to the power of employer "parasites" to
cheat them out of their "fair share"). - Answers True
True or False: The availability of cheap manufactured goods from the Northeast created a need for cash
among farmers in the Northwest that resulted in an agrarian revolution toward commercial farming. -
Answers False, Agrarian revolution was due to new inventions for farming, started in Britain.
True or False: As a result of "King Cotton" the ideology of the southern master class shifted from
paternalism (slaves as part of a black and white plantation family) to profitability (the systematic
exploitation of black labor). - Answers False
The South moved towards paternalism, not away from it.
True or False: For Jacksonian democrats "free labor" meant independent, self-employed yeomen and
artisans not "wage slavery" and widespread economic inequality. - Answers True
True or False: The founding fathers who drafted the American Constitution were democratic in their
political ideology. - Answers False, not democratic but elitist
True or False: After the War of 1812, American merchant capital shifted from international commerce to
the development of the domestic market. - Answers True, Market Revolution
True or False: "Accommodation" to slavery by slaves themselves constituted a form of class struggle--
doing as little as possible, engaging in thievery and sabotage, and pretending to be incapable of learning
complex tasks. - Answers True
True or False: The introduction of the sewing machine in the late 1840s greatly improved the working
conditions and income of outworkers in the clothing industry. - Answers False, Worse working
conditions, sewing machines helped get rid of outworkers, created factories.
True or False: Although a supporter of "states rights," Jackson refused to allow state governments to
take over lands granted to Indians by the Federal Government. - Answers False, Trail of Tears, he moved
Indians allowing State Governments to take land
True or False: In antebellum America the capitalist revolution created a new "middle class" of well-to-do
commercial farmers and urban manufacturers. - Answers True
True or False: The Erie Canal inaugurated a capitalist transformation of the United States by creating a
huge domestic market connecting the Northwest and the Northeast. - Answers True
True or False: During the Nullification Crisis Jackson maintained that "states rights" existed prior to the
Union and therefore existed independently of the Union. - Answers False, Calhoon not Jackson
True or False: Profits from ready-made clothing produced by companies like Brooks Brothers were
initially low because less-skilled women outworkers had to be used to make up for a shortage of skilled
artisans. - Answers False, more less-skilled workers did faster work in industry
True or False: The slave mode of production had to expand or it would die from soil exhaustion and a
large slave population that would be no longer profitable. - Answers True????
True or False: The economic crashes of 1819-22, 1837-43, and 1857-9 were caused by excessive
government regulation of the economy and excessively high wages demanded by organized workers. -
Answers False
Crashes were due to inflation and financial bubbles created by unbacked credit given by companies and
banks.
True or False: In order to insure that wealthy speculators be paid full face value for their revolutionary
war bonds, Hamilton proposed the federal government assume the debts of the states as part of the
national debt. - Answers True
, True or False: Capitalism privileges property rights over community rights; democracy privileges
community rights over property rights. - Answers True
True or False: The antebellum South had a dual economy consisting of plantations at the commercial
center and yeoman "subsistence plus" farmers on the periphery. - Answers True
True or False: "Speed up" and "stretch-out" were techniques used by Lowell textile manufacturers to
make operatives more productive as "premiums" (piece rates paid to workers) began to increase
dramatically in the 1830s. - Answers True
True or False: According to capitalist "free labor" ideology, wage labor cannot be "wage slavery" since
wage laborers possess legal equality with their employers, freedom of conscience, the right to a home
and family, and the opportunity for upward mobility. - Answers True
True or False: Elected Mayor of Lynn on the basis of strong working-class support, George Hood used
democratic politics to deflect worker demands for "equal rights" away from a critique of capitalist
production as a whole and onto single issues and minor reforms. - Answers True
True or False: Jacksonian democracy applied only to men and women who were "free, white, and 21." -
Answers False, Free, white, and 21 referred only to free white men over the age of 21.
True or False: For industrial workers in antebellum manufacturing centers, "free labor" meant creating a
new economic independence and a new moral community in the form of trade unions. - Answers True
True or False: In order to insure the legitimacy of the Constitution, its supporters were concerned that
the ratification process be carried out slowly and deliberately in order that the will of the majority would
prevail. - Answers False, The rushed its ratification so the majority would not be able to have a voice.
True or False: When artisan shoemakers of Lynn spoke of "equal rights" they meant "producers" having
control over their work and the fruits of their labor (and an end to the power of employer "parasites" to
cheat them out of their "fair share"). - Answers True
True or False: The availability of cheap manufactured goods from the Northeast created a need for cash
among farmers in the Northwest that resulted in an agrarian revolution toward commercial farming. -
Answers False, Agrarian revolution was due to new inventions for farming, started in Britain.
True or False: As a result of "King Cotton" the ideology of the southern master class shifted from
paternalism (slaves as part of a black and white plantation family) to profitability (the systematic
exploitation of black labor). - Answers False
The South moved towards paternalism, not away from it.
True or False: For Jacksonian democrats "free labor" meant independent, self-employed yeomen and
artisans not "wage slavery" and widespread economic inequality. - Answers True
