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Which of the following describes The Book of Mormon, published in 1830?

It claimed that Jesus Christ visited an ancient American civilization soon after his resurrection.

How did President Andrew Jackson change the federal system of office holding

Jackson introduced the principle of rotation in office to discourage lang tenure

Which of the following statements characterizes Andrew Jackson's intentions toward Native Americans during the presidency

Jackson meant to remove all Native Americans east of the Mississippi, even those who had adapted to white society

Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in American cities in the mid-nineteenth century?

Minstrel shows

In the first half of the nineteenth century, American manufacturers' main advantage over the British mills was that they had access to which of the following

More natural resources

Which of the following factors explained the rapid growth of western cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New Orleans

Their role in transportation networks

By the early 1840s, Garrison and his supporters in the American Anti-Slavery Society had transformed their agenda in which of the following ways?

They advocated a broad-based reform program, embracing women's rights as well as the rights of American blacks.

Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers?

They allowed both women and men to govern their communities.

Why are the Oneidians, Shakers, and Fourierists historically significant?

They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy.

Which of the following is true of free blacks in the south?

They became the backbone of the south's urban artisan workforce.

Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?

The Second Great Awakening

Which of the following laws required the Treasury department to accept only gold and silver in payment for purchases of federal land

The Specie Circular

Which of the following describes the ruling by the Roger B. Taney Supreme Court in Mayor of New Yrl v. Miln

The Taney Court ruled that New York State could inspect the health of arriving immigrants

On whom did President Jackson rely for political advice

An informal group called the Kitchen Cabinet

Who founded the Liberty Party in 1840?

Antislavery leaders who had broken with Garrison

Who was a critic for the New York Tribune, an editor of The Dial, and the author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century?

Margaret Fuller

Why did Andrew Jackson veto the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States in 1832

He thought it interfered with the rights of states and the liberties of the people

Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America

It brought workers together under one roof in a factory

Which of these statements describes the planter Aristocrats who lived in the cotton growing regions of the south in the mid-19th-century?

Aristocratic planters took the lead in defending slavery as a benevolent social system.

How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century

By passing protective tarrifs

As president, John Quincy Adams supported which of the following policies

A national bank to promote a uniform currency and to control credit

Sequoyah developed which of the following to assimilate members of the Cherokee tribe into American life

A perfected system of writing for the Cherokee language

In the late 1840s and the 1850s, Emersonians did which of the following?

Abandoned their quest to create new social institutions

Which of these factors prompted many plantation masters to reduce reliance on violence and adopt positive incentives to motivate slaves in the 1830s and 1840s?

Abolitionist scrutiny

Which of the following statements describes the institution of slavery in the 19th - century south?

About 5% of southern whites owned 50% of the slave population.

Which of the following characterizes the plantation labor system of the Southern cotton industry?

African-American slaves worked from sun up to sundown all year long.

Abolitionist leaders used which of the following in their crusade to end slavery in the middle of the 1800s?

Aid to fugitive slaves

Which of the following was an outcome of the American Industrial Revolution in the early nineteenth century

American businesses soon dominated in many European markets

Which American principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the American Industrial Revolution

American ingenuity

What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the term individualism to describe American society in 1835?

Americans lived in social isolation, without any ties to caste, class, association, or family.

Which of the following describes the changes in slaves living conditions in the early 19 century?

As blacks formed stronger social, family, and cultural ties, they resisted the break up of families through sale by their owners.

How did the spread of industrialization in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s affect skilled artisans

As machines changed the nature of their work, shoemakers, hatters, printers, furniture makers, and weavers faced declining income, job insecurity, and loss of status

To which of the following causes did Isabella Graham and Joanna Bethune contribute in the early nineteenth century

Assisting widows and orphans

Which of the following pairs is properly matched?

Benjamin Banneker - mathematician and surveyor; helped lay out Washington, D.C.

Which of these factors was the critical stimulus for the growth of domestic American markets in the first half of the nineteenth century

Better transportation networks

Which of the following statements describes the impact of the Jacksonian-era constitutional revolution on the States

Between 1830 and 1860, twenty states revised their charters and enhanced democracy

Slaves' practice of "taking root" involved which of the following?

Building the best possible lives for themselves as slaves

How did planters attempt to resolve a labor crisis in the cotton south in the early 19th century?

By buying domestic slaves from the Chesapeake region.

How did middle-class reformers attempt to overcome disorder and lawlessness among urban wage earners in early nineteenth-century America

By forming regional and national organizations to institutionalize charity and combat crime systematically

Between 1820 and 1840, the economic conditions for casual day laborers in American cities changed in which of the following days

Casual day laborers bore the burnt of unemployment during business depressions

What killed thousands of poor immigrants in St. Louis and New York City in the summer of 1849

Cholera

Which of the following were core institutions for African-American society in the mid - 19 - century south?

Church and family

Under the task system, slaves were required to

Complete a precisely defined job each day.

The Oneida Community, founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes, was known for which of the following practices?

Complex marriage

Which of these did elite American embrace after the Industrial Revolution in order to set themselves apart from other groups of Americans

Conspicuous displays of their wealth through clothing and housing

Which of these inventions spurred the growth of agriculture in the Midwest in the 1840s

Corn feeding for livestock

In 1832, a South Carolina state convention committed which of the following actions

Declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state

By 1860, the majority of African Americans lived and worked as slaves in which of the following regions?

Deep south

In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "IT is a constant fact that a the present day the ablest men in the United States are rarely placed at the head of Affairs

Democracy

Horace Mann and Catharine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s?

Educational reform

Mid-nineteenth-century publications such as Godey's Lady's Book and Catharine Beecher's Treatise on Domestic Economy did which of the following?

Emphasized the social importance of homemaking and domesticity

In the landmark case of Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co. (1837), Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and the U.S. Supreme Court did which of the following

Encouraged competitive enterprise, opening the way for legislatures to charter railroad companies

In what way was the United States more democratic than anywhere else in the world during the first half of the nineteenth century

Franchise qualifications

In the cotton - growing regions of the south, which of the following was true of the gang-labor system of work?

Gang-labor depended upon the work of white overseers and black drivers.

What was the outcome of President John Quincy Adams' support of the Creeks in their treaty negotiations with the state of Georgia

Georgia's governor attacked him as a "public enemy" and "ally of the savages"

Which of the following describes German immigrants who settled in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s

Germans were the second largest immigrant group and many settled in the midwestern states

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about which of the following in his essays and lectures?

He argued that people should reject old conventions and discover their original relation with nature.

How did Andrew Jackson respond to South Carolina's claimed right of nullification in 1832

He asked Congress for a Force Bill authorizing him to use military to suppress any act of nullfication

Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?

He attacked the U.S. Constitution because it condoned slavery.

In his 1829 pamphlet, An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker did which of the following?

He justified slave rebellion and warned white Americans that violence and retribution would come if justice were delayed.

How did Thomas Jefferson respond to the development of American manufacturing by the 1820s

He praised industrialization and expressed pride in American progress in manufacturing

Which of the following statements about Emerson is correct?

He was a Unitarian minister who eventually rejected organized religion.

Which of the following individuals went to jail rather than pay taxes in support of the Mexican War and slavery?

Henry David Thoreau

Which of the following factors was critical in the ballooning populations of cities like New York in the mid-nineteenth century?

Immigration

In the 19th - century south, free blacks live primarily

In the coastal cities in the upper south.

Which of the following statements characterizes blacks' resistance to slavery by the 1820s?

In their situation, most blacks had no choice but to build the best possible lives for themselves.

The Trial of Tears was the direct consequence of which of the following government actions

Indian Removal Act of 1830

Which of the following qualities did Henry David Thoreau urge in his readers, as demonstrated by the statement, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"?

Individuality

Which of the following attributes of American society did the planter aristocracy in the south value highly in the mid 19th century?

Inequality

Nativist fears were directed mostly at which of the following groups in early and mid-nineteenth-century America

Irish immigrants

Who replaced the Lowell Mils workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved

Irish immigrants

As a result of Turner's Rebellion, the Virginia legislature did which of the following in the 1830s?

It debated but rejected a bill providing for gradual emancipation and colonization.

Which of the following describes the Fourierist movement in America?

It demonstrated the difficulty of creating enduring utopian communities.

Why was the south on the cutting edge of the market revolution by 1840?

It produced and exported over to - thirds of the worlds cotton supply.

Which of the following arguments did President Jackson offer as a justification for destroying the Second Bank of the United States

It was a monopoly that benefited only a few owners, some of whom were foreigners

Which of the following statements describes Jackson's veto of the bill rechartering the Second Bank of the United States in 1832

It was a popular move, blending constitutional arguments, an appeal to patriotism, and class rhetoric

Which of the following describes the purpose of Henry David Thoreau's book Walden?

It was written to document Walden's spiritual search for meaning beyond the artificiality of "civilized" life.

Which of the following statements describes the American Waltham plan, which was later known as the Lowell system

Its creators recruited farm girls and women to work in factories

Which of the following statements characterizes the planter elite of the upper south in the early and mid-1800s?

Many elite planters considered themselves benevolent masters.

Which of the following statements describes workers' approach to alcohol consumption in the 1820s

Many workers used alcohol as an escape from the routine of work but also drank in their workplaces

The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, written by John C. Calhoun, bore a similarity to the argument made by which of the following people

Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Many African American slaves who converted to Christianity compared themselves to which of the following groups?

Jews

Which inventor properly matched with the item he invented

John Deere - Steel plow

Which of the following statements describes events surrounding the election of 1824

John Quincy Adams became president even though Andrew Jackson had more popular votes

Which of the following methods was a highly uncommon form of slave resistance in the slave south?

Large-scale uprisings

Which of the following areas is correctly matched with its primary crop?

Louisiana - sugar

The most critical contribution American mechanics made to the Industrial Revolution was the development of which of the following

Machine tools

The Alabama constitution of 1819 did which of the following?

Made county supervisors and sheriffs elected positions

Efforts by women reformers to regulate sexual behavior resulted in laws in Massachusetts and New York that did which of the following?

Made seduction of women a crime

Small holding planters in the 19th century south owned about how many slaves, on average?

One to five

For which of the following reasons did the Salt Lake Mormons succeed and thrive in the nineteenth century even as other social experiments failed?

Mormon society had strong, hierarchical leadership.

Which of the following contributed to the harassment and persecution of Mormons at Nauvoo in the early 1840s?

Mormons' power as a voting bloc in local elections

Which of these statements most accurately describes the experience of free blacks in the early 19th - century United States?

Most held low-wage jobs as farmworkers, day laborers, or laundresses.

For which of the following reasons did New York's state government fund the building of the Erie Canal in 1817

New Yorkers sought to link the Hudson River with the Great Lakes

Which of the following statements characterizes the American political system directly after the American Revolution

Notables manged local elections through their personal connection

Which of these concepts became is central tenet of slave Christianity in the south in the 19th century?

Obedience to authority

Which of the following was an evangelical movement that believed the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred and people could attain complete freedom from sin?

Perfectionism

Why did a labor crisis develop in the cotton south in the first few decades of the 1800s?

Planters heading west needed many new slaves to clear, plant, and harvest the land.

What aspect of early nineteenth-century American government had the founders condemned as contrary to republican ideals

Political parties

Which of these factors explain the surplus of slaves in the Chesapeake region in the early 19th century?

Population growth through natural reproduction.

Why did the United States declined to annex Texas in 1837?

Pres. Van Buren feared the annexation would spark an American Civil War over the issue of slavery.

The American Lyceum movement of the 1830s engaged in which of the following efforts?

Promoting the spread of knowledge through public lectures

Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of transportation in the United States in the nineteenth century

Railroads

Politicians from modest backgrounds tended to support which of the following reforms in the 1810s

Restrictions on imprisonment for debt

Who was the English immigrant who secretly brought the design of the most advanced British machinery for spinning cotton to America in 1789

Samuel Slater

The domestic slave trade affected the African-American family unit before 1865 bye

Separating family members through sale and trade

Which of the following examples embodied the synthesis of African and American culture that existed in the south in the 1850s?

Sexual relations between slave woman and their masters.

Which of the following was an outcome of the division of labor in early American shoe factories

Show production increased

Which of the following statements characterizes African-American marriage customs in the slave south?

Slave couples often followed the African custom of "jumping the broom" to signify their Union.

The notion of slavery as a "necessary evil" and a "positive good" was supported by which idea?

Slavery allowed a civilized lifestyle for whites and cared for genetically inferior blacks.

Which statement characterizes the typical relationship between slaves and their masters in the 1850s?

Slaves were investments and therefore were generally provided with clothes, shelter, and enough food to keep them healthy.

What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe would promote an individual's mystical union with God and achievement of self-realization?

Spending time alone in nature

In its campaign to end slavery, the American Anti-Slavery Society embraced which of the following tactics?

Sponsoring public lectures and collecting signatures on antislavery petitions

The 1832 Ordinance of Nullification was based on which of the following beliefs

States had the right to determine which congressional laws they would enforce

By the 1830s, coal and metal manufacturers increasingly used which of the following to run machinery

Steam engines

Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe pen her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1852?

Stowe sought to depict slavery as degrading to slave women.

During the 1840s, American women's rights activists focused on which of the following goals?

Strengthening the legal rights of married women

Which of the following elements defined the Democrats under Andrew Jackson

Support for average Americans

Through which of the following sources did the U.S. Treasury raise most of its revenue during the first half of the 1800s

Tariffs on imported goods

In the early 1800s, free blacks in the North were encouraged to "elevate" themselves through which of the following activities?

Temperance

The public movement for women's rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?

The Second Great Awakening

Through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in effecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early nineteenth-century America

Temperance

Which of these groups accounted for the largest percentage of white population in the mid - 19th - century cotton south?

Tenant farmers and day laborers

Which of the following developments spurred the Panic of 1837

The Bank of England curtailed British investment in the United States

What did the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution specify should be done in a election like the election of 1824, in which no presidential candidate received a majority of the electoral votes

The House of Representatives decides the outcome

The US federal government participated in the expansion of slavery during the mid - 1800s through which of the following?

The Indian removal act

The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following

The Market Revolution

Which of the following statements characterizes the presidential campaign of 1840

The Whigs' campaign was a carnival of speeches, parades, and mass meetings to demonstrate the man-of-the-people qualities of their presidential candidate

Working Men Parties of the late 1820s and 1830s called for which of the following reforms

The abolition of debtors' prisons

Which of these factors created a majority economic obstacle for small, family farmers aiming to improve their lot in the mid - 19th - century south?

The cotton revolution

Which of these factors contributed to the development of an increasingly homogeneous African-American culture in the rural South in the 19th century?

The development of the Gullah dialect

Which of the following statements characterizes the domestic slave trade in the 19th century?

The domestic market brought wealth to American traders.

Which of the following statements characterizes the Cotton planter class in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas in the mid - 19th century.

The goal of the planter class was to make money.

What was the gag rule passed by the House of Representatives in 1836?

The policy automatically tabled and prevented discussion of any antislavery petitions received by the House.

The cotton boom that began in the 1810s set which of the following results in motion?

The redistribution of the African American population.

Which of these factors contributed to the tremendous increase in commercialized sex in the new cities of the mid-nineteenth century?

The subsistence wages and exploitative conditions of women's jobs

Which of the following was the message of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, published in full in 1818

The suggestion that an industrious man could become wealthy

Why was the domestic slave trade crucial to the southern economy?

The trade provided tens of thousands of new workers to build plantations.

Which of the following statements characterizes the American party system by the early 1840s

The two parties offered nearly the same social and economic platform but employed differing campaign styles to attract voters

Which of the following statements was true of the American south in 1860?

The vast majority of southern white families did not own any slaves.

Which of the following statements describes the relationship between the economies of the north and the south in the mid - 19th century?

The wealth of industrializing the north east was increasing more quickly than that of the south.

The Shakers' name came from which of the following?

Their particular form of worship

Which of the following did Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have in common?

They criticized transcendentalism and warned against excessive individualism.

What did bankers, land speculators, and entrepreneurs in the 1820s to the 1840s have in common

They demanded government assistance for their business entreprises

Which of these factors made enslaved African Americans reluctant to attempt to escape the north?

They hesitated to leave their families and communities behind.

What prevented planter elites from exercising complete political dominance over the cotton south in the 1830s and 1840s?

They lived in the republican society with democratic institutions that elicited input from all white men

Which of the following describes the residents of the Brook Farm community of the 1840s?

They wanted to combine farming with study and a lively intellectual life.

Why did several eastern states expand suffrage in the 1810s

They wanted to discourage westward migration

Which of the following describes the minstrel shows that became popular in American cities in the 1840s?

They were a popular form of entertainment and social criticism.

Which of these describes the experiences of the young women who worked in the New England textile mills in the 1820s and 1830s

They were able to save their wages for later use or to help out their families

Which of these statements describes the southern rice planters of the mid 19th century?

They were at the apex of the plantation aristocracy.

Children born in slave communities in the 19th-century South often shared which of these characteristics?

They were named after family members.

Which of the following statements describes the class of property list white's living in the south in the mid - 19th century?

They worked hard physical jobs as day laborers and enjoyed little respect from other whites.

Why did Congress approve funds for the construction of the National Road in 1806

To link midwestern settlers to seaboard states

What was the purpose of the Female Moral Reform Society, which middle-class New York women founded in 1834?

To provide moral guidance for young, working women who were living away from their families

Which of the following was the primary function of the Second Bank of the United States

To stabilize the nation's money supply by forcing state banks to convert their paper money periodically into gold and silver coin

Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?

Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented.

Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson were well known for their involvement in which of the following movements?

Transcendentalism

The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?

Transcendentalism

What occurred during the Bad Axe Massacre of 1832

U.S. troops pursued Black Hawk's followers into Wisconsin and killed 850 of his warriors

Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century?

Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs.

Which of the following is properly paired?

Walt Whitman—Leaves of Grass

What prevented white southerners from working to diversify their economy in the nineteenth century?

Wealthy planters believed that the plantation economy would continue to produce wealth indefinitely.

In the election of 1840, Whigs boosted their electoral hopes by appealing to which of the following groups

Women

How did women participate in the abolition movement in the mid-eighteenth century?

Women abolitionists established influential groups such as the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.

Which of the following was an outcome of the rural outwork system of manufacturing in the 1820's and 1830's

Workers' wages decreased

In the 1824 U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons vs. Ogden, the Marshall Court's decision

overturned New York law that granted a monopoly on steamboat travel into New York City

President Martin Van Buren responded to the Panic of 1837 by

adopting a hands-off, limited government stance

In the aftermath of the nullification crisis, President Jackson responded to southern concerns about the tariff by

persuading Congress to pass a new tariff that gradually reduced duties

Which factor lead to planters need to smuggle slaves into the country rather then import them legally?

congressional legislation

The construction of the Erie Canal, the first great engineering project in American history, was successful for which of the following reasons

it increased the speed of shipping and travel while greatly lowering its cost

Which of the following statements characterizes the Second Bank of the United States in the 1830s

its cautious monetary policy pleased bankers, creditors, and East Coast entrepreneurs, who funded economic development

Mob violence against abolitionist efforts in the 1830s and 1840s was

often directed against "respectable" black organizations such as churches and against orphanages.

In their book American Slavery as It Is, Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimké sisters

presented testimony from individual southerners about the evils of slavery.

During the 1840s and 1850s, Roman Catholic churches in the United States were known for

providing community services and a sense of group identity for most Irish and many German immigrants

John C. Calhoun challenged the northern Whig economic idealogy by arguing

that advanced civilizations always had antagonism between workers and capitalists

Which of the following Puritan ideas became a middle-class conviction with the secular twist during industrialization in the early 1800s

the Protestant work ethinc

The concept that the price of a product should reflect the work required to make it is known as

the labor theory of value

In the U.S. Supreme Court case of Worcester v. Georgia (1832), John Marshall and the Court majority issued a decision that

upheld Indians nations' political authority in their communities

Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of the textile industry in the United States

using British textile machinery as their model, American textile producers built their own textile mills in New England and ultimately improved on British technology