TAMU History 105 Resch Exam 2 - Solution Manual Fully Solved Latest Update 2025 Already Passed
Minstrel shows forged a common "whiteness" out of working class ethnic diversity and allowed
Northern workers to express their ambivalence about the process of proletarianization to which they
were being subjected - Answers True
The Haitian Revolution made it possible for the United States to open up the Mississippi Valley to the
domestic slave trade - Answers False (This was a slave rebellion)
The tidal wave of immigrants between 1840 and 1860 provided essential wage laborers in an American
society where large numbers of people still lived on their own land - Answers False
Because of their own experience of discrimination in England, Irish immigrants to the united states
rejected racism within the democratic party and "whiteness" among American workers - Answers False
The founding fathers who drafted the American constitution were democratic in their political ideology -
Answers False (They were Elitist)
Antebellum whigs found supporters among those who gained little from the capitalist revolution and
who has no use for the moral agenda of the democrats - Answers False
After the war of 1812, American merchant capitalism shifted from international commerce to the
development of the domestic economy - Answers True (Market Revolution)
"Accommodation" to slavery by slaves themselves constituted a form of class struggle, doing as littles as
possible, sabotage, and pretending to be incapable - Answers True
Jackson's battle against the B. U. S. united democratic hostility to "money power" with speculators and
entrepreneurs anxious to fuel a credit bubble. - Answers idk
The introduction of the sewing machine greatly improved the working conditions and income of female
outworkers in the clothing industry - Answers False (it started factory working where conditions were
horrible)
Although a supporter of states rights, jackson refused to allow state governments to take over federal
land grants from indians - Answers False (trail of tears was under his rule)
In antebellum america, the capitalist revolution created a new middle class of well-to-do commercial
farmers and urban manufacturers - Answers True
Yazoo land speculations demonstrated that wealthy Americans were willing to pour money into the
expansion of slavery. - Answers False (Worst political scandal in Georgia, Yazoo Land (35 million acres)
bought for $500,000 (1.5 cents an acre))*
The erie canal inaugurated a capitalist transformation of the US by creating a huge domestic market
connecting the northwest and northeast - Answers True
, During the nullification crisis, Jackson maintained that states rights existed prior to the union and
independently of the union - Answers False (he was against Calhoun and nullification)
Profits from ready made clothing produced by large companies were initially low because less-skilled
women had to be used in place of skilled artisans - Answers False (they made money bc the women
worked for cheaper)
The slave mode of production had to expand or it would die from soil exhaustion and a slave population
that would be no longer profitable - Answers True
The economic crashes in early 1800s were caused by excessive government regulation of economy and
excessively high wages demanded by organized workers - Answers False (the crashes were due to
inflation and unbacked credit)
In order to ensure that wealthy speculators be paid full value for their revolutionary war bonds,
hamilton proposed the fed govt assume the debts as part of national debt - Answers True
Because it took place after the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the Battle of New Orleans had
no impact on the expansion of slavery - Answers True*
Capitalism privileges property rights over community rights, when democracy privileges community
rights over property rights - Answers True
The antebellum south had a dual economy consisting of plantations at commercial center and yeoman
farmers in the economic periphery - Answers True
"Speed up" and "stretch out" were techniques used by Lowell textile manufacturers to make operatives
more productive as premiums paid to workers began to increase dramatically in the 1830s - Answers
True
According to the 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 a
family, and the opportunity for upward mobility - Answers True
During the "Bank Wars" Northeastern banks and holders of slave-based bonds were able to persuade
Southwestern state legislatures to honor their pledges to guarantee the obligations of their state banks
at taxpayer expense - Answers idk
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
Jacksonian democracy applied only to men and women who were "free, white, and 21" - Answers False
(just men)
Minstrel shows forged a common "whiteness" out of working class ethnic diversity and allowed
Northern workers to express their ambivalence about the process of proletarianization to which they
were being subjected - Answers True
The Haitian Revolution made it possible for the United States to open up the Mississippi Valley to the
domestic slave trade - Answers False (This was a slave rebellion)
The tidal wave of immigrants between 1840 and 1860 provided essential wage laborers in an American
society where large numbers of people still lived on their own land - Answers False
Because of their own experience of discrimination in England, Irish immigrants to the united states
rejected racism within the democratic party and "whiteness" among American workers - Answers False
The founding fathers who drafted the American constitution were democratic in their political ideology -
Answers False (They were Elitist)
Antebellum whigs found supporters among those who gained little from the capitalist revolution and
who has no use for the moral agenda of the democrats - Answers False
After the war of 1812, American merchant capitalism shifted from international commerce to the
development of the domestic economy - Answers True (Market Revolution)
"Accommodation" to slavery by slaves themselves constituted a form of class struggle, doing as littles as
possible, sabotage, and pretending to be incapable - Answers True
Jackson's battle against the B. U. S. united democratic hostility to "money power" with speculators and
entrepreneurs anxious to fuel a credit bubble. - Answers idk
The introduction of the sewing machine greatly improved the working conditions and income of female
outworkers in the clothing industry - Answers False (it started factory working where conditions were
horrible)
Although a supporter of states rights, jackson refused to allow state governments to take over federal
land grants from indians - Answers False (trail of tears was under his rule)
In antebellum america, the capitalist revolution created a new middle class of well-to-do commercial
farmers and urban manufacturers - Answers True
Yazoo land speculations demonstrated that wealthy Americans were willing to pour money into the
expansion of slavery. - Answers False (Worst political scandal in Georgia, Yazoo Land (35 million acres)
bought for $500,000 (1.5 cents an acre))*
The erie canal inaugurated a capitalist transformation of the US by creating a huge domestic market
connecting the northwest and northeast - Answers True
, During the nullification crisis, Jackson maintained that states rights existed prior to the union and
independently of the union - Answers False (he was against Calhoun and nullification)
Profits from ready made clothing produced by large companies were initially low because less-skilled
women had to be used in place of skilled artisans - Answers False (they made money bc the women
worked for cheaper)
The slave mode of production had to expand or it would die from soil exhaustion and a slave population
that would be no longer profitable - Answers True
The economic crashes in early 1800s were caused by excessive government regulation of economy and
excessively high wages demanded by organized workers - Answers False (the crashes were due to
inflation and unbacked credit)
In order to ensure that wealthy speculators be paid full value for their revolutionary war bonds,
hamilton proposed the fed govt assume the debts as part of national debt - Answers True
Because it took place after the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the Battle of New Orleans had
no impact on the expansion of slavery - Answers True*
Capitalism privileges property rights over community rights, when democracy privileges community
rights over property rights - Answers True
The antebellum south had a dual economy consisting of plantations at commercial center and yeoman
farmers in the economic periphery - Answers True
"Speed up" and "stretch out" were techniques used by Lowell textile manufacturers to make operatives
more productive as premiums paid to workers began to increase dramatically in the 1830s - Answers
True
According to the 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 a
family, and the opportunity for upward mobility - Answers True
During the "Bank Wars" Northeastern banks and holders of slave-based bonds were able to persuade
Southwestern state legislatures to honor their pledges to guarantee the obligations of their state banks
at taxpayer expense - Answers idk
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
Jacksonian democracy applied only to men and women who were "free, white, and 21" - Answers False
(just men)
