Chapter 7

Question 0

T or F: Roads offered a faster, more efficient, and cheaper way to move goods than did rivers

Answer 0

False

Question 1

T or F: President Madison vetoed the federal internal improvement plan, arguing that spending money to improve transportation was not expressly granted in the Constitution

Answer 1

True

Question 2

T or F: The American free enterprise system encouraged industrialization because companies in competition with one another were willing to experiment with new technologies

Answer 2

True

Question 3

T or F: Even though industry expanded in the Northeast during the early 1800s, agriculture remained the country’s leading economic activity

Answer 3

True

Question 4

T or F: Missouri’s application for statehood stirred up the issue of whether slavery was constitutional

Answer 4

False

Question 5

T or F: Missouri’s territorial government requested admission into the Union as a slave state

Answer 5

True