USA HISTORY

THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825

JAMES MADISON AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Proceeds from the tolls collected at turnpikes
A
built up the surrounding cities’ commerce.
B
defrayed high taxes for citizens in the area.
C
were used for road maintenance.
D
funded local farms to increase crop production.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Supporters claimed that roads would help connect the state’s textile industry and local farmers to national railroad and waterway networks. By 1925, funds raised by a gasoline tax, automobile license fees, and federal government highway bonds paid for 7, 680 miles of improved roads.

Detailed explanation-2: -interchangeable parts, identical components that can be substituted one for another, particularly important in the history of manufacturing. Mass production, which transformed the organization of work, came about by the development of the machine-tool industry by a series of 19th-century innovators.

Detailed explanation-3: -Industrial Revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. These technological changes introduced novel ways of working and living and fundamentally transformed society.

Detailed explanation-4: -Interchangeable parts is the idea that identical parts used for multiple goods make it possible for manufactured goods to be made quickly and replaced easily by unskilled workers facilitating mass production. Eli Whitney was born in 1765 in Massachusetts.

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