HY120 Final- Chp. 9

Which of the following was not a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution?

America's failure to attract many newcomers from Europe

The court case in which it was held that workers' unions are not illegal was

Commonwealth v. Hunt.

American industrialization first took off in

New England

The Second Great Awakening was

a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following?

a transcendentalist

Which of the following was not an innate characteristic of women, according to the "cult of domesticity"?

analytical insight

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.

Which city was known as "Porkopolis" after its slaughterhouse district?

cincinnati

The linchpin of southern development and most important export was

cotton

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

cotton gin

Florida was victoriously delivered to American hands with the assistance of local Indians and Spain's suggestion to sell the area.

false

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

Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to

railroads

Which of the following is a correct pairing of inventor and invention?

steel plow and John Deere

What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?

stimulated its growth

The device invented by Samuel Morse in the 1830s that sent messages over electrical wires was called the

telegraph

Which was not an innovation associated with the market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century?

telephones

The 1825 completion of the 363-mile Erie Canal connected

the Great Lakes with New York City.

"Manifest destiny" was

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

The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated

the sale of parts of Florida from Spain to the United States.

For the expanding middle class, it became a badge of respectability for wives to remain at home.

true

Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money.

true

When the Marquis de Lafayette toured America in the early 1800s, he stated he would not have helped America in the battle for independence had he known he aided in the founding of a land of slavery.

true

The "American system of manufactures"

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

Early New England textile mills relied largely on the labor of

women and children