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10. New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of a. prison and asylum reform. b. the peace movement. c. the temperance movement. d. abolitionism. e. women's education.

A.

16. Which of the following was not associated with the early nineteenth-century cause of women's rights? a. Emily Dickinson b. Lucy Stone c. Lucretia Mott d. Susan B. Anthony e. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A.

2. The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was a. the rebellion against British rule and potato famine. b. influx of immigrants from mostly Eastern European countries. c. the granting of limited home rule to most of Ireland by Great Britain. d. the migration from the countryside to the city. e. the increasing use of English instead of Gaelic.

A.

3. Ireland's great export in the 1840s was a. people. b. potatoes. c. wool. d. whiskey. e. music.

A.

4. The Second Great Awakening tended to a. promote religious diversity. b. reduce social class differences. c. blur regional differences. d. discourage church membership. e. weaken women's social position.

A.

5. Slavery's greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was a. the enforced separation of slave families, whose members could be sold away from each other. b. slaveowners' frequent use of the whip. c. the breeding of slaves. d. having to do the most dangerous work on the plantation. e. forcible sexual assault by slaveowners.

A.

6. The profitable southern slave system a. hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole. b. saw many slaves moving to the upper South. c. led to the textile industry's development in the South first. d. relied almost totally on importing slaves to meet the unquenchable demand for labor. e. failed to prompt most planters to regard their slaves as investments to be cared for and monitored like any other asset.

A.

7. ​Which of the following events prompted the Mormons to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois and set out West to the valley of the Great Salt Lake? a. ​Continuing vicious hostility by non-Mormon Americans including the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother b. ​A vision by the Mormon angel Moroni to Brigham Young of a peaceful, bountiful, and safe refuge in the valley of the Great Salt Lake c. ​The expectation that a lush, easily arable western enviornment awaited the Mormons in present-day Utah, which would not require or expensive and technologically sophisticated irrigation to grow crops d. A generous land grant by the federal government e. ​All of these choices are correct.

A.

8. Those nativists who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized in 1849 a. the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner. b. the "Molly Maguires." c. the Anti-Masonic party. d. the Ancient Order of Hibernians. e. the Ku Klux Klan.

A.

9. Despite early resistance, the main reason free public education ultimately triumphed was a. wealthy and politically powerful Americans feared that if the government failed to provide free public education, poor families immigrants would utilize their free vote to elect candidates and political parties unfavored by these political and economic elites. b. wealthy Americans feared the problem of vagrancy as farm families depended less upon the labor of children. c. Southern slave owners abandoned their resistance to it. d. teaching provided paid employment for unmarried, single women. e. poor Americans threatened to launch a violent rebellion unless free education was made available.

A.

1. People in the West tended to prefer Andrew Jackson in the 1824 election because he a. was less inclined to engage in wars with Indian nations than to seek fair negotiated treaties with Native Americans to resolve territorial disputes. b. campaigned against the forces of corruption and privilege in government. c. promised to uphold the needs of free labor. d. had embraced the American System. e. None of these choices are correct.

B.

10. Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the a. steamboat. b. cotton gin. c. railroad locomotive. d. telegraph. e. repeating revolver.

B.

11. A great deal of the cotton produced in the American South in the early nineteenth century was a. produced by free labor. b. sold to New England textile mills. c. grown on the Atlantic tidewater plains. d. consumed by the southern textile industry. e. exported to the Caribbean and West Indies for textile production.

B.

11. Match each abolitionist below with his publication. A. William Lloyd Garrison 1. Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World B. Theodore Dwight Weld 2. The Liberator C. Frederick Douglass 3. Narration of the Life of ____ D. David Walker 4. American Slavery as It Is a. A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2 b. A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1 c. A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1 d. A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4 e. A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3

B.

12. Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States was a. the first presidential veto. b. a major expansion of presidential power. c. unconstitutional. d. overturned by a two-thirds vote in Congress. e. None of these choices are correct.

B.

12. Most of the cotton produced in the American South after the invention of the cotton gin was a. produced by free labor. b. sold to England for production of textiles in their mills. c. grown on the tidewater plains. d. consumed by the southern textile industry. e. of the long-staple variety.

B.

13. Match each individual below with the correct invention. A. Samuel Morse 1. telegraph B. Cyrus McCormick 2. mower-reaper C. Elias Howe 3. steamboat D. Robert Fulton 4. sewing machine a. A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2 b. A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3 c. A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3 d. A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1 e. A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3

B.

16. Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to and to annex the new Texas Republic because a. Texans did not want to be annexed to the United States. b. antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery. c. they were old political opponents of the Texas president, Sam Houston. d. public opinion in the United States opposed annexation. e. they feared war with Mexico's ally, Spain.

B.

2. The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because a. they opposed slavery. b. they could not afford the purchase price. c. their urban location did not require them. d. their racism would not allow them to work alongside African Americans. e. they feared the possibility of slave revolts.

B.

20. Of the following, the most successful of the early-nineteenth-century communitarian experiments was at a. Brook Farm, Massachusetts. b. Oneida, New York. c. New Harmony, Indiana. d. Seneca Falls, New York. e. Shaker Heights, Ohio.

B.

21. Match each writer below with his work. A. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1. Walden B. James Fenimore Cooper 2. The Last of the Mohicans C. Herman Melville 3. The Marble Faun D. Henry David Thoreau 4. Moby Dick a. A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 b. A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1 c. A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4 d. A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2 e. A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3

B.

22. Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through a. scientific observation and experiment. b. the senses. c. divine revelation. d. reason, logic, and critical thinking. e. an inner light.

B.

3. The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it a. more dependent on a college-educated clergy. b. more reliant on women as members and social reformers. c. less socially and theologically diverse. d. more sympathetic to hierarchical churches like Catholicism. e. more centered on the life of the local parish.

B.

4. Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the a. return of Jeffersonian simplicity. b. newly won ascendancy of the masses. c. supremacy of states' rights over federal power. d. reemergence of a dominant Federalist ethic of government and Federalist economic policies. e. All of these choices are correct.

B.

6. The Force Bill of 1833 provided that the a. Congress could use the military for Indian removal. b. President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duties. c. President could use the army to collect excise taxes. d. military could force citizens to track down runaway slaves. e. All of these choices are correct.

B.

7. By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the a. border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland. b. Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. c. old South states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. d. new Southwest states of Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory. e. mountain regions of Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

B.

1. As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin a. fewer slaves were needed on the plantations. b. short-staple cotton lost popularity. c. slavery was reinvigorated in the South. d. Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery. e. the African slave trade was legalized.

C.

1. The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860 a. led to a lower death rate. b. contributed to a decline in the birthrate. c. resulted in unsanitary conditions in many communities. d. forced the federal government to slow immigration. e. sparked federal, state, and local governments to develop urban public transportation networks and an array of social services to manage this growth during this period.

C.

13. Those seeking to reform women's style of dress in the 1840s claimed all of the following except a. corsets constricted women's vital organs. b. voluminous skirts unfairly restricted women's mobility. c. that bloomer-style trousers were necessary to prevent a woman's sexuality from becoming unhinged leading to immoral actions with a man who was not her husband. d. that simpler clothing styles would serve as a rejection of the artificial desires created by industrialization. e. that bloomer-style trousers were a more rational form of dress.

C.

14. One of the primary goals of the child-centered family of the early-mid 1800s was to a. raise children who were obedient to authority. b. allow parents to spoil their children. c. raise independent individuals who would become responsible citizens of the American republic. d. increase the average number of children per family to five per household. e. preserve childhood innocence.

C.

15. By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by a. the temperance movement. b. the movement to improve treatment and conditions for the mentally ill. c. abolitionism. d. prison reform advocates. e. evangelical revivalism.

C.

15. One major reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that the a. Mexicans opposed slavery. b. Mexican government refused to allow the "Old Three Hundred" to purchase land. c. Anglo-Texans wanted to break away from a government that had grown too authoritarian. d. Anglo-Texans objected to the Mexican government's establishment of evangelical Protestantism as Texas's official religion. e. Mexicans tried to establish slavery among the Americans.

C.

17. The "Tippecanoe" in the Whigs' 1840 presidential campaign slogan was a. Daniel Webster. b. Martin Van Buren. c. William Harrison. d. John Tyler. e. Henry Clay.

C.

18. The key to Oneida's financial success was a. its move from Vermont to New York. b. the establishment of Bible communism. c. the manufacture of steel animal traps and silverware. d. its tax-exempt religious status. e. its linkage of religion to free-market capitalism.

C.

19. In the new continental economy, each region specialized in a particular economic activity: the South ____ for export; the West grew grains and livestock to feed ____; and the East ____ for the other two regions. a. raised grain, southern slaves, processed meat b. grew cotton, southern slaves, made machines and textiles c. grew cotton, eastern factory workers, made machines and textiles d. raised grain, eastern factory workers, made furniture and tools e. processed meat, southern slaves, raised grain

C.

2. John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed ____ to become ____. a. John C. Calhoun, vice president b. William Crawford, chief justice of the United States c. Henry Clay, secretary of state d. Daniel Webster, secretary of state e. John Eaton, secretary of the navy

C.

20. All of the following were legal questions raised as a result of the new market economy except a. how tightly should patents protect inventions? b. should the government regulate monopolies? c. can a democratic government still support slavery? d. who should own these new technologies? e. who should own the new transportation network?

C.

23. All of the following influenced transcendental thought except a. German philosophers. b. Oriental religions. c. Catholicism and the papacy. d. individualism. e. love of nature.

C.

4. Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852 by a. Ralph Waldo Emerson. b. William Lloyd Garrison. c. Harriet Beecher Stowe. d. Margaret Fuller. e. Harriet Tubman.

C.

5. The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over a. banking policy. b. internal improvements. c. tariff policy. d. extension of slavery into the western territories. e. Indian policy.

C.

5. The religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were the a. Roman Catholics and Episcopalians. b. Unitarians and Jews. c. Methodists and Baptists. d. Congregationalists and Presbyterians. e. Lutherans and Mormons.

C.

7. Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because a. the Indians assimilated too easily into white society. b. the Supreme Court ruled in favor of this policy. c. whites wanted the Indians' lands. d. Georgia and Florida tried to protect the Indians and their lands. e. they continued their attacks on white settlements.

C.

8. The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes involved a. inconsistently veering between progressive assimilation and encouraging the eastern Indian tribes to preserve their traditional culture. b. rapid assimilation into white American culture. c. forced removal from their traditional lands. d. federal protection from state governments. e. to encourage them to preserve their traditional culture.

C.

11. Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the Bank of the United States except that a. the bank was unconstitutional. b. it was controlled and managed by wealthy financiers and private bankers of the East. c. the bank was autocratic and tyrannical. d. the bank was beholden to British and French financial interests. e. the bank's president arrogantly defied the president.

D.

13. Andrew Jackson based his veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States on a. constitutional grounds exclusively. b. advice from Henry Clay and other close advisors. c. the Supreme Court's McCulloch v. Maryland decision. d. the fact that he found the bill harmful to the nation as well as unconstitutional. e. the belief that it was supported by the "necessary and proper" clause in the Constitution.

D.

14. Which of these is NOT associated with the rise of the modern women's rights movement in 1848? a. The Declaration of Sentiments b. The Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York c. The demand for the ballot for women d. The call to boycott traditional marriage as oppressive to women e. Women's increasing involvement in the antislavery movement

D.

15. Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840, when they backed the presidential candidate of the a. Free Soil party. b. Republican party. c. Know-Nothing party. d. Liberty party. e. Socialist party.

D.

15. The cult of domesticity a. was especially strong among rural women. b. resulted in more pregnancies for women. c. restricted women's moral influence on the family. d. glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers. e. All of these choices are correct.

D.

17. The beliefs advocated by John Humphrey Noyes of the Oneida Community included all of the following except a. no private property. b. sharing of all material goods. c. removing children from exclusive parental care at a very young age so they can be raised communally. d. strictly monogamous marriages. e. improvement of the human race through eugenics.

D.

24. One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was a. James Russell Lowell. b. Henry David Thoreau. c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. d. Edgar Allan Poe. e. Walt Whitman.

D.

4. When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they a. preferred urban life. b. were offered high-paying jobs. c. were welcomed by the people living there. d. were too poor to move west and buy land. e. had experience in urban politics.

D.

7. When German immigrants came to the United States, they a. often became Baptist or Methodists. b. mixed well with other Americans. c. remained mostly in the Northeast. d. prospered with astonishing ease. e. dropped most of their German customs.

D.

8. Besides polygamy, characteristic behavior(s) of Mormons which angered many non-Mormon Americans in the 1840s was their a. belief in visions and a special spiritual role for America. b. constant movement toward the western frontier. c. refusal to take up arms and defend themselves. d. voting as a religious bloc and openly drilling their militia, alebit for defensive purposes. e. dislike of federal government control of their lives.

D.

9. The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was a. Robert Fulton. b. Samuel F. B. Morse. c. Eli Whitney. d. Samuel Slater. e. Francis Cabot Lowell.

D.

1. All the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it a. resulted in the conversion of countless souls. b. encouraged a variety of humanitarian reforms. c. strengthened democratic denominations like the Baptists and Methodists. d. was a reaction against the growing liberalism in religion. e. was not as large, democratic, or influential in terms of social reform as the First Great Awakening.

E.

10. Andrew Jackson and his supporters disliked the Bank of the United States for all of the following reasons except it a. minted gold and silver coins but issued no paper money. b. controlled much of the nation's gold and silver. c. was a private institution. d. foreclosed on many western farms. e. put public service first, not profits.

E.

10. William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to a. shipping freed blacks back to Africa. b. supporting armed slave insurrections against all white slaveholders in the South. c. preventing the expansion of slavery beyond the South. d. forming an antislavery political party. e. the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.

E.

11. The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s a. was addressed by the wide availability of private and government-sponsored alcoholism programs for alcoholics. b. did not involve women. c. held little threat for the family because everyone drank. d. had little impact on the efficiency of labor. e. stemmed from the hard, struggling, and monotonous life of many American men and women.

E.

12. As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South a. formed alliances with white imperialists in Africa. b. adopted British attitudes toward the "peculiar institution." c. emancipated many slaves. d. returned to relying on wage labor and indentured servitude for its main agricultural labor force. e. developed a theory of biological racial superiority to justify slavery.

E.

12. Neal Dow sponsored the Maine Law of 1851, which called for a. the abolition of capital punishment. b. the abolition of slavery. c. improved conditions and treatment for the mentally ill housed in asylums. d. woman suffrage. e. a ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor.

E.

13. Slaves fought the system of slavery by a. slowing down the pace of their labor. b. conducting periodic slave rebellions. c. sabotaging expensive equipment. d. running away from their masters. e. All of these choices are correct.

E.

14. All of the following were true of slavery in the South except that a. strong-willed slaves were sometimes sent to breakers to coerce slaves into accepting their bondage and the planter's mastery. b. a distinctive African American slave culture developed. c. a typical planter had too much of his own prosperity riding on the backs of his slaves to beat them on a regular basis. d. the explosive growth of cotton production in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana contributed directly to life being harder for the typical slave in this southern frontier region than other regions of the South or West. e. most slaves were raised in single unstable parent households.

E.

14. The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following except a. excessive speculation. b. President Jackson's banking and financial policies including the Bank War and the Specie Circular. c. financial problems abroad. d. failure of wheat crops. e. taking the country off the gold standard.

E.

16. The first major transportation project in the United States, which ran sixty-two miles and was completed in the 1790s, that proved to be a stimulus for western economic developments was the a. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. b. National (Cumberland) Road. c. Erie Canal. d. St. Lawrence Seaway. e. Lancaster Turnpike.

E.

17. Compared with canals, railroads a. were more expensive than canals to construct. b. transported freight more slowly. c. faced much less political opposition by vested economic interests. d. required less technological obstacles to overcome to construct and operate them safely. e. could be built almost anywhere with sufficient financial capital.

E.

19. Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held ____ as one of their founding ideals. a. rugged individualism b. pacifism c. capitalism d. opposition to communism e. cooperative social and economic practices

E.

2. As one the greatest of the revivalist preachers, Charles Grandison Finney advocated a. opposition to slavery. b. a perfect Christian kingdom on earth. c. opposition to alcohol. d. public prayer by women. e. All of these choices are correct.

E.

25. Match each writer below with his work. A. Louisa May Alcott 1. The Scarlet Letter B. Edgar Allan Poe 2. "The American Scholar" C. Nathaniel Hawthorne 3. Little Women D. Ralph Waldo Emerson 4. "The Fall of the House of Usher" a. A-3, B-2, C-l, D-4 b. A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2 c. A-1, B-4, C-3, D-2 d. A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3 e. A-3, B-4, C-l, D-2

E.

3. John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except a. his strong nationalistic ideology. b. his support for elitist proposals like a national university. c. his personal coldness and tactlessness with people. d. the charges of "corrupt bargain" hanging over his presidency. e. his encouragement of his supporters to "sling mud" at Jackson.

E.

3. Most white southerners were a. planter aristocrats. b. small slaveowners. c. merchants and artisans. d. "poor white trash." e. subsistence farmers.

E.

5. All of the following are true statements about the relationship between Irish immigrants and U.S. citizens except a. the Irish were seen as wage-depressing competitors for jobs by many Protestant American workers. b. Nativist Americans from the middle and upper classes generally hated the Irish. c. the Irish often saw signs on factory gates that said "No Irish Need Apply." d. race riots between blacks and Irish were common. e. Irish immigrants became fiercely supportive of the abolitionist cause.

E.

6. German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to a. settle in eastern industrial cities. b. return to Germany when they experienced difficult economic times in the United States. c. become slave-owners. d. join the temperance movement. e. preserve their own language and culture.

E.

6. The Mormon religion originated in a. Utah. b. New England. c. Nauvoo, Illinois. d. Ireland. e. the Burned-Over District of New York.

E.

8. The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was a. proposed by Timothy Dwight Weld. b. proposed by John Quincy Adams. c. advocated by Frederick Douglass. d. suggested by political leaders of the African nation of Liberia. e. supported by the black leader Martin Delaney.

E.

9. On the forced march from their Georgia homeland to Oklahoma known as the Trail of Tears, the Cherokees experienced all of the following except a. 100,000 Indians being uprooted. b. the loss of their ancestral and ostensibly legally protected lands to white settlement. c. countless Indian men, women, and children dying on route or after arriving in Indian Territory. d. having to abandon sacred and family grave sites. e. the rampant sexual abuse of wives and daughters by U.S. soldiers.

E.

9. The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was a. a recognition of blacks' desire to preserve their culture. b. never carried out. c. advocated by Frederick Douglass. d. proposed by the African nation of Liberia. e. an expression of widespread American racism.

E.


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