HIS-144 Week 4 Quiz Help - study
guide Latest 2024/2025 Update with
complete solution;GCU
HIS 144
, HIS-144 Week 4 Quiz Help - study guide Latest
2024/2025 Update with complete solution;GCU
Chapter 10—The Market Revolution
Which of the following happened during the Market Revolution?
a. Goods could first be taken to market quickly across the entire United States.
b. Each town began to open fresh air markets for selling and bartering crops.
c. A growing number of farmers began to focus on single crops that they could sell for
profit, rather than only growing what they needed to be self-sufficient.
d. The United States stopped all overseas commercial transactions between the America
and Europe.
e. The United States tried to separate itself from the world economy and buy and sell only
at home.
ANS: C REF: p. 175
By 1850, the percentage of the American labor force employed in agriculture had declined to
a. 15 percent.
b. 35 percent.
c. 55 percent.
d. 75 percent.
e. 85 percent.
ANS: C REF: p. 175
Who of the following did not support the economic plan called the American System?
a. Young Democratic-Republicans from the West
b. Southern cotton plantation owners
c. Henry Clay of Kentucky
d. Younger politicians from the Middle Atlantic states
e. John C. Calhoun of South
Carolina ANS: B REF: p. 177
All of these were key components of the American System except
a. a national bank.
b. protective tariffs.
c. internal improvements.
d. increased role of the federal government in stimulating economic growth.
e. a self-sustaining agricultural
system. ANS: E REF: p. 175
In Gibbons v. Ogden the Supreme Court
a. established the precedent of judicial review.
b. forbade state legislatures to alter a college charter in order to gain control over them.
c. confirmed the federal government's power to regulate commerce overruled that of
the states.
d. declared the international slave trade unconstitutional.
e. handed the victory in the 1824 election to John Quincy