Question 1

Most of the states that joined the Union in the six years immediately following the War of 1812 were located:

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A)   west of the Mississippi River.
B)   in the Old Northwest.
C)   south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
D)   in the Louisiana Purchase territory.
E)   west of the Appalachian Mountains.F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 2

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Roger Taney

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A)  Supreme Court chief justice
B)  transcendentalist
C)  coined the term "manifest destiny"
D)  established America's first factory
E)  steamboat innovatorF) African Methodist Episcopal ChurchG) steel plowH) self-made millionaireI) preacher in New YorkJ) reaperK) Walden PondL) called for a radical change in the wage labor systemM) F) and K)
N) B) and G)

Question 3

The women who protested during the Shoemakers' Strike in Lynn compared their condition to that of:

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A)   indentured servants.
B)   slaves.
C)   Irish immigrants.
D)   religious dissenters.
E)   Indians.F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 4

During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans:

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A)   could not, under federal law, obtain public land.
B)   found, as whites did, that the West offered the best opportunities for economic advancement.
C)   rose in economic status, but more slowly than whites.
D)   joined with white artisans in biracial unions that successfully struck for higher wages.
E)   formed predominantly upper-middle-class communities in the North.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 5

The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to:

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A)   pursue a college education.
B)   take a job outside the home to supplement the family's disposable income.
C)   have as large a family as possible.
D)   focus her energies on the home and children.
E)   produce the daily foodstuffs and necessities that her household required.F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 6

To satisfy the need for slave labor in the Cotton Kingdom, an estimated 1 million slaves were relocated to the Deep South from the older slave states between 1800 and 1860.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Samuel Slater

Accepted Answer

A)  Supreme Court chief justice
B)  transcendentalist
C)  coined the term "manifest destiny"
D)  established America's first factory
E)  steamboat innovatorF) African Methodist Episcopal ChurchG) steel plowH) self-made millionaireI) preacher in New YorkJ) reaperK) Walden PondL) called for a radical change in the wage labor systemM) D) and E)
N) B) and C)

Question 8

In the 1840s, nativists blamed immigrants for what?

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A)   Epidemics in American cities.
B)   An increase in Protestant revivalism.
C)   Terrorism.
D)   A decline in the sales of alcohol.
E)   Urban crime and political corruption.F) A) and D)
G) C) and D) E

Question 9

What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s?

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A)   Such places generally had cheaper labor (usually consisting of African-Americans)  than existed in the earlier, highly unionized factory towns such as Lowell and Pawtucket.
B)   Under Henry Clay's American System, federal and state governments subsidized factories in those locations.
C)   Steam power meant factories no longer had to be near waterfalls and rapids to generate the power.
D)   Factory owners were attracted by the highly skilled labor pool of German immigrants who settled in those areas.
E)   The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Gibbons v. Ogden removed obstacles to the placement of factories in densely populated areas.F) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 10

What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

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A)   Tobacco.
B)   Coal.
C)   Timber.
D)   Cotton.
E)   Wheat.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 11

The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was:

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A)   textiles.
B)   guns.
C)   ironworks.
D)   pottery.
E)   shoemaking.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 12

Women who worked at the Lowell mills:

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A)   never had time to make friends.
B)   commuted daily to work from their family farms.
C)   quickly organized a union to strike for higher wages.
D)   held management positions.
E)   lived in closely supervised boardinghouses.F) D) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 13

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-internal borderland

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Question 14

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-corporations

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Question 15

During the first half of the nineteenth century, individualism:

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A)   came under attack from Henry David Thoreau.
B)   was defined in a way that distinguished it completely from the idea of privacy.
C)   hampered efforts to spread democracy because it reduced interest in suffrage.
D)   was rooted in the idea of self-sufficiency.
E)   was a subject on which all transcendentalists agreed.F) C) and D)
G) A) and D) D

Question 16

The idea of the United States as a refuge for those seeking economic opportunity or as an escape from oppression has always coexisted with suspicion of and hostility toward foreign newcomers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

What did Charles Grandison Finney emphasize in his sermons?

Accepted Answer

A)   People needed to improve themselves economically.
B)   People could choose salvation over their sinful ways.
C)   Themes from classical Greek literature.
D)   People needed to make strategic moves in their lives, like a military commander.
E)   They needed to convert Native Americans.F) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 18

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Dartmouth College v. Woodward

Accepted Answer

A)  a celebration of the home
B)  revolutionized American slavery
C)  mass production of interchangeable parts
D)  corporate charter
E)  a belief that American expansion was divinely appointedF) religious revivalG) steamboat travelH) a literary and philosophical movementI) groups chained together while migrating to the Deep SouthJ) a chartered entity that has rights and liabilities distinct from those of its membersK) prejudice against immigrantsL) waterway linking New York City to the Great LakesM) I) and J)
N) F) and L)

Question 19

According to the Mormons, who was God's prophet?

Accepted Answer

A)   Richard Allen.
B)   Charles Grandison Finney.
C)   John Jacob Astor.
D)   Orestes Brownson.
E)   Joseph Smith.F) A) and B)
G) A) and D) E

Question 20

The "German triangle" in the mid-nineteenth century referred to:

Accepted Answer

A)   a Baltimore neighborhood with a large German immigrant population.
B)   the identifying patch German immigrants were forced to wear in some American cities.
C)   Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Milwaukee-cities with large German populations.
D)   the special kind of ballot Democrats gave German-speaking voters.
E)   the superior plow that German immigrant Thomas Mannheim introduced to the United States.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Exam 9: The Market Revolution, 1800-1840

Most of the states that joined the Union in the six years immediately following the War of 1812 were located:

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Roger Taney

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The women who protested during the Shoemakers' Strike in Lynn compared their condition to that of:

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans:

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The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to:

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To satisfy the need for slave labor in the Cotton Kingdom, an estimated 1 million slaves were relocated to the Deep South from the older slave states between 1800 and 1860.

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Samuel Slater

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In the 1840s, nativists blamed immigrants for what?

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What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s?

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What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

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The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was:

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Women who worked at the Lowell mills:

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -internal borderland

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -corporations

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, individualism:

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The idea of the United States as a refuge for those seeking economic opportunity or as an escape from oppression has always coexisted with suspicion of and hostility toward foreign newcomers.

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What did Charles Grandison Finney emphasize in his sermons?

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Dartmouth College v. Woodward

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According to the Mormons, who was God's prophet?

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The "German triangle" in the mid-nineteenth century referred to:

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