The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What did Coxe contrast manufacturing with? (from The Machine)

The trades.

Cottage industry.

Self-reliance.

Importation.

2.

What did Coxe foresee for America? (from The Machine)

The civic uses of industrialism.

How industrialism would give America strength internationally.

The danger of industrialism.

The value of industrialism.

3.

How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology? (from The Machine)

Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks.

After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west. Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks. Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city. After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west.

As long as civilization could continue to exploit resources, it could avert class warfare.

Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city.

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