Inquizitive 9

Identify the statements that describe the experiences of free blacks in the nineteenth century.

Blacks faced widespread discrimination and were unable to find work as craftsmen or store clerks. Blacks constructed their own institutional life, by creating schools and churches.

What does it reveal about roads and canals in 1840?

By 1840, a network of roads connected the Atlantic coast to the western states, including Indiana. Large portions of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers could be navigated, allowing trade throughout the most western states. Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania had a series of canals that allowed goods to be transported throughout the region.

Identify the statements that describe how textile mills transformed employment dynamics in the nineteenth century.

Entire families worked at some mills, with women and children contributing to the production of textiles. It was the first time in history that a large number of unmarried women left their homes to participate in the public world.

Identify the statement that describes nativist attitudes in the 1840s and 1850s.

Fearing immigrants would take their jobs, native-born Americans discriminated against immigrants.

What does this advertisement reveal about how slaves were perceived in the South?

Slaves were considered property, and as such they were no different than a piece of furniture or a horse.

Slave revolts in the United States were much larger and more frequent than in Brazil and the West Indies.

false

The Second Great Awakening concerned the "awakening" of what type of devotion?

religious

Today, text messaging offers instant communication. In the 1830s Americans marveled at the ability of an invention to transmit messages across the country. What new technology allowed for instant connectivity?

telegraph

During the nineteenth century, legal decisions supported entrepreneurs participating in the market revolution by striking down monopolies and encouraging competition.

true

The concept of "Liberty of Living" made economic security an essential part of American freedom.

true

Identify the statement that describes the mill girls.

young, unmarried women from farm families who worked in the textile mills

Identify the statement that describes the concept of a "family wage."

A "family wage" referred to the amount a man should be able to make to support his wife and children without their earnings.

A painting shows a family and a Conestoga Wagon travelling along a rural road.What role did freedom play in the concept of "manifest destiny"?

America was entitled to the whole continent because of its divine mission to spread freedom beyond its current borders.

What does it reveal about the contrast between how America viewed the West, and the reality of the West?

Americans romanticized the West as a land of opportunity and promise, in reality it was rough and a difficult place to live.

What does this map reveal about the transportation revolution and shortened travel times?

Between 1800 and 1830, travel time between New York City and the meeting point of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers decreased by three weeks. Between 1800 and 1830, travel time between New York City and Florida decreased by one week. By 1830, a traveler could get anywhere along the Atlantic coast in two weeks or less.

How did slavery shape social and economic relations in the Old South? Identify the statements that describe the Old South.

Correct Answer(s) In 1860, the South produced less than 10 percent of the nation's manufactured goods. Slavery powerfully shaped race relations, politics, religion, and the law in the Old South. Incorrect Answer(s) There were no industrial centers in the South. Large numbers of immigrants were attracted to settling in the South.

After abolition in the North, slavery had become the "peculiar institution" of the South. Identify the statements that describe this "peculiar institution" in the antebellum American South.

Correct Answer(s) In the South as a whole, slaves made up one-third of the total population, and in the cotton-producing states of the Deep South, around half. The Mason-Dixon Line, drawn between Pennsylvania and Maryland, became the dividing line between slavery and freedom. Incorrect Answer(s) The American South actually produced only a small percentage of the world's cotton supply; it was beet plantations that made slavery so profitable. By the end of the Revolutionary War, slavery had mostly died out in the United States.

Identify the statements that describe the southern planter class.

Correct Answer(s) The "planter class" was a term for the families who owned twenty or more slaves, and as a result, produced the most profits. The planter class wielded significant political influence in the South because of its wealth and power. Incorrect Answer(s) Most of the planter class owned fewer than twenty slaves, but as a collective they generated the most cotton in the South. Planters owned only a small portion of the most fertile regions of the South.

Identify the statements that describe the internal borderland along the Ohio River.

Cultural connections, trade connections, and family connections transcended the border. There was more trade between people across the Ohio River than in the most northern parts of their own states. It was the boundary between free and slavery societies.

After 1793, cotton production soared due to the invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin. Identify how the cotton gin further changed the United States.

It allowed slavery to expand to the West and increased it in the South as profits were realized.

Identify the statements that describe the Second Great Awakening and its impact.

It democratized American Christianity, making it a mass enterprise. Preachers stressed that individuals were "free agents" able to make their own choices, and stressed industry, sobriety, and self-discipline. Alarmed by low church attendance, religious leaders organized religious revivals where they preached, warning of hell and promising salvation to converts.

Slave owners attempted to prevent slaves from learning about the larger world around them. How did slaves acquire knowledge of current events?

Many owners were unaware that slaves created neighborhood networks that transmitted news of local and national importance between plantations.

How did family, gender, religion, and values combine to create distinct slave cultures in the Old South? In some ways, gender roles under slavery differed markedly from those in the larger society. Why did the nineteenth century's "cult of domesticity" not apply to slave women?

Slave women were expected to work in the fields with the men, not take care of the home life.

The largest plantations were concentrated in coastal South Carolina and which geographic feature?

The Mississippi River

Drag the statements that describe the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the image of the temple below.

The Mormons' experience revealed the limits of religious toleration in nineteenth-century America but also the opportunities offered by religious pluralism.Members' practices of posthumous polygamy proved controversial, and as a result demonstrated the limits of religious toleration in the country. The religion was founded by Joseph Smith, and the followers are often referred to as Mormons.

Identify the statement that describes the shift from the ideology of "republican motherhood" to the cult of domesticity in the mid-nineteenth century.

The idealized image of a woman shifted from that of a mother of future citizens to that of a virtuous and obedient person dependent on her husband.

Everyone in the country did not embrace the market revolution. Identify the group of people who felt that its modern, streamlined, and scheduled system interfered with individual actions and growth.

Transcendentalists

Most slaves who succeeded in escaping slavery, like Frederick Douglass, came from the Upper South, especially from states that bordered free states like Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky.

True

Identify the statements that describe westward expansion.

Westward expansion had been happening since the first settlers arrived and moved inland. The West emerged as its own distinct region, with its own culture, different from the South and New England. By supporting the West, politicians gained power.

Compared to slaves in Brazil or the West Indies, American slaves had - diets. This was because the South had abundant food supplies and wild game. But, although slaves in the United States enjoyed better material lives than slaves in other regions, they had far less access to -.

better, freedom

Identify the contributions of John Deere and Cyrus McCormick to the expansion of the market economy in the United States.

invented equipment that increased farm production

Identify the statements that describe the American system of manufactures.

led to the wide dispersion of mechanical skills throughout northern society introduced the mass production of parts that could be rapidly built into standardized products

Identify how the following innovations contributed to the market revolution.

opened significant portions of the American interior to settlement, as well as stimulated iron manufacturing Correct label: railroads separated the seed from the cotton and made growing and selling cotton possible on a large scale Correct label: cotton gin made upstream commerce possible, allowing rapid transport of goods by rivers and lakes Correct label: steamboat made immediate communication throughout the United States possible Correct label: telegraph

Identify the statements that describe the market revolution.

rapid change in the U.S. economy caused by territorial expansion enabled by improvements to transportation shift from self-sufficient farming to a national market creation of opportunities for economic improvement and the ability to get ahead

Identify the demands of the early labor movement.

the opportunity for free public education the limit of working hours to ten hours a day end of imprisonment

What does this image reveal about the mid-nineteenth-century belief in "inborn" qualities of men and women?

women: expected to be nurturing, selfless, and ruled by emotionremained in the private realm of the family men: able to move freely between the public and private spheres expected to be rational, aggressive, and domineering