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- Life on the frontier was
a.
fairly comfortable for women but not for men.
b.
downright grim for most pioneer families.
c.
free of disease and premature death.
d.
rarely portrayed in popular literature.
e.
based on tight-knit communities.
All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in early nineteenth-century America except
a.
the push west in search of cheap land.
b.
government regulation of all major economic activity.
c.
a vast number of European immigrants settling in the cities.
d.
newly invented machinery.
e.
better roads, faster steamboats, further-reaching canals, and tentacle-stretching railroads.
Pioneering Americans marooned by geography
a.
never took the time to explore the beauty of the natural landscape.
b.
grew to depend on other people for most of their basic needs.
c.
abandoned the rugged individualism of colonial Americans.
d.
never looked for any help beyond their immediate family.
e.
were often ill informed, superstitious, provincial, and fiercely individualistic.