Chapter 9

Most Americans moved west as lone pioneers. T/F

False

Westward migration and urban development decreased the mobile population. T/F

False

With the Second Great Awakening, American Christianity became more hierarchical and out of touch with the common folk. T/F

False

Women were barred from becoming preachers, especially in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. T/F

False

Which was not an aspect of women's changing role in the context of the expansive and dynamic growth of the market economy in nineteenth-century America?

In the new, competitive, capitalist marketplace, women were to grow increasingly into captains of industry, becoming leaders of some of the nation's most important industries.

This religious leader claimed to have been led by an angel to a set of golden plates covered with strange writing, which he translated and later published, starting which religion?

Mormonism

American industrialization first took off in

New England.

By 1824, the nation's population had

Tripled

Expanding networks of toll roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads were essential to the takeoff of the market revolution. T/F

True

In Thoreau's view, the market revolution degraded both people's values and the natural environment. T/F

True

Between 1800 and 1860, around 1 million slaves moved from older slave states to the Deep South. Most traveled

as a result of being sold at auction to work in the cotton fields.

The "American system of manufactures" was

the mass production of interchangeable parts into rapidly built, standardized products.

In the nineteenth century, barred from schools and other facilities, free black Americans constructed their own institutional life, centered on churches, educational, and mutual aid societies. T/F

True

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the Old Northwest. T/F

True

The Second Great Awakening stressed the right of private judgment in spiritual matters and the possibility of universal salvation through faith and good works. T/F

True

The common nineteenth-century view was that men are naturally aggressive, rational, and domineering, while women are naturally nurturing, selfless, and ruled by emotions. T/F

True

The early industrial revolution produced textiles near water sources as water power was necessary to drive their machinery. T/F

True

The largest group of immigrants to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s came from Ireland, which was then in the throes of the great potato famine. T/F

True

The market revolution swept over the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. T/F

True

There was a rapid decline in the birthrate during the course of the nineteenth century, such that from an average of seven children per family, by 1900 women on average had four children. T/F

True

With the accessibility to timepieces in the market revolution, factory work started being measured "by the clock," while farm life continued to be regulated by the rhythms of the seasons. T/F

True

Workingmen formed political parties in the late 1820s and among the goals of these ephemeral political parties were free public education, an end to imprisonment for debt, and a ten-hour workday. T/F

True

What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?

cotton gin

The advent of the Second Great Awakening involved

religious revivals aimed at increasing church attendance.

"Manifest destiny" was

the belief that the United States had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward.