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    Chapter 11 Practice Test Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Why were changes to manufacturing needed in the mid-1700s? a. Factory owners were not satisfied with the size of their profits. b. Demand was greater than the available supply of goods. c. Workers were not satisfied with the level of their daily wages. d. Traders faced higher shipping prices for smaller amounts of goods. ____ 2. Which small‚ inexpensive

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    South America would be viewed as acts of aggression‚ requiring U.S. intervention. James Monroe was elected president for a reason meaning people liked him‚ they saw him as a leader. James Monroe was also the first president to travel by way of steamboat. Monroe was extremely popular after the War of 1812. He easily won the Democratic-Republican nomination and had little opposition from Federalist candidate Rufus King. Extremely popular and easily won both the Dem-rep nomination and the election

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    The Industrial Revolution in Europe changed the world completely by changing the way people work and earn money to the way we live today. The Industrial Revolution was a time when the economy was boosted very quickly and many most were unprepared for the sudden economic change. The lower class workers started to get a higher pay with the rising demand for jobs. Since these jobs were physically enduring jobs‚ women were paid less‚ and men were paid more. Interestingly‚ the wage drastically decreases

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    a brass band invited more than 3‚000 visitors to the zoo. Flags flew high‚ noise filled the air‚ and people crowed every where. People came on foot‚ by cars‚ horse and buggy‚ and This is the sign when you first enter the zoo every 15 minutes by steamboat. The Philadelphia Zoo has its own wharf on the Schuylkill River. It costed 10 cents for kids and 25 cents for adults. This price lasted for another 50 years. The Philly Zoo was a leading attraction at that time‚ and today it is one of the most visited

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    rule but was actually under developments during that era. Many Americans committed so much effort in finding and solving the technological problems that slowed down the commerce within the country. Also with the invention/building of the canal‚ steamboat‚ telegraph and railroad brought the united states out of the economic past by making transportation cost less‚ because there was creation of toll roads/new roads and for the mercantile to sell their goods and services and created a land of settlement

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     Mighty Mouse‚ Mr. Magoo‚ Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner ‚ Tom and Jerry‚ and an incredibly popular adaptation of Superman. Walt Disney took animation to a new level.  He was the first animator to add sound to his movie cartoons with the premiere of Steamboat Willie in 1928.  In 1937‚ he produced the first full length animated feature film‚ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White‚ a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It

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    they barely had one their backs tighter around them. I had a few suitcases and offered a few spare coats I had. I now only had two. Many eyes were vacant and our faces as hollow as our hearts and stomachs‚ filled with dread and homesickness‚ the steamboat‚ Columbia‚ bringing us closer to bitter sweet unknown promise that was held in America‚ for a better life. With the help of my cousin I was able to get a prepaid ticket to America. He even set up a job for me to start a week after my arrival to

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    piano-players‚ and dancehall girls of Dawson poured down to the wharf to give Steele "such an ovation and send-off as no man has ever received from the Klondike gold-seekers‚" in the words of a local newspaper. They cheered Sam Steele until his steamboat was out of sight. I believe that this makes him a canadian because the canadian people actually appreciate his

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    Narrative of My Escape from Slavery Moses Roper This book is about a slave with a half-white mother and a white father. He was born in North Carolina and missed death in the first few days of his life. His mother’s mistress wanted to kill him because he was the son of his mother’s slave master. She went to his mother’s room at night with a knife but his Grandmother saved his life. Not to long after that he and his mother were sold. When he was about six or seven years old his mothers

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    What events or trends contributed to the relationship between the forces of Nationalism and Sectionalism? During the course of American History‚ and especially after the War for Independence‚ Nationalism and Sectionalism contributed and interacted with each other to shape the development of the United States of America. These two ideologies are the inverse of one another. When sectionalism is strong‚ nationalism is weak. When Nationalism is strong‚ sectionalism is weak. While sectionalism and nationalism

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