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Which was a major economic consequence of the transportation and marketing revolutions?
A widened gap between great wealth and poverty
Where did the worst anti-Catholic violence occur in 1834 and 1844?
Boston and Philadelphia
All of the following are true of family life in slavery along the "black belt" except:
Slaves often married their first cousins.
What did feminists at the Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York, demand?
The right to vote
The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of which people?
Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann
Which literary figure was a lifelong recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, whose poetry was recognized only after his or her death?
emily Dickinson
Why was American industry slow to develop?
U.S. manufacturers had difficulty competing in quality and price with imported European goods.
The Deep South "black belt" of slavery stretched across all of the following states except:
Virginia
How did the Second Great Awakening primarily spread to the masses?
Camp meetings
All of the following were results of the construction of the Erie Canal except:
It eliminated the need for the railroad.
What did the Supreme Court rule in Commonwealth v. Hunt?
Labor unions were legal.
Where did the American Colonization Society establish a home for freed American slaves?
Liberia
Why were slaves denied an education?
Masters believed that reading brought new ideas that might lead to their discontent.
What was the first American college to admit both women and blacks?
Oberlin College
Which of the following is true about white society in the early nineteenth century?
Planter aristocrats represented a small percent of the population.
Ecological imperialism, as exemplified during the American historical period of 1790 to 1860, can best be described as what?
The wanton, heedless exploitation of natural resources by humans aggressively engaged in economic development and trade
What did the legal principle of free incorporation mean?
Businessmen could create corporations without applying for individual state charters.
What did Eli Whitney's cotton gin enable?
Cotton production to expand from the coastal areas to the vast plains of Alabama and Mississippi
Joseph Smith and his followers were criticized by their non-Mormon neighbors for all of the following except:
Dedication to free enterprise
In opposition to William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass believed that slavery should be ended through what?
organizing an anti-slavery political party
All of the following were true of German immigrants except:
the majority were liberal political refugees after the collapse of the democratic revolutions of 1848.
All of the following were true of the mountain whites of the southern Appalachians except:
they ultimately played a significant role in supporting the Confederacy.
What stimulated the work of America's first internationally recognized writers Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper
The upsurge of American nationalism following the War of 1812
Why was the invention of McCormick's reaper significant?
It fueled the establishment of large-scale commercial agriculture.
Where did almost all the growth of the American population after 1820 come from?
Natural increase rather than immigration
Which of the following was an emphasis of Deism?
Reason and the scientific pursuit of knowledge
What happened as the new continental market economy grew?
The home came to be viewed as a refuge from the workday world.
What was stressed by the transcendentalist movement?
Each individual's need to pursue his own truth based on an inner light that transcends the senses
Which of the following was true about the cult of domesticity?
It limited women's opportunities outside the home.
Which statement is true of the agitation in the North against the spread of slavery into the new territories in the 1840s and 1850s?
It often grew out of race prejudice, not humanitarianism
The great Irish immigration of the 1840s primarily stimulated by what?
The potato famine in Ireland
Proslavery whites defended the institution of slavery in all of the following ways except:
They claimed that slaves were set free once they reached old age.
Why was life on the frontier especially difficult for women?
They experienced extreme loneliness and mental breakdowns from weeks without seeing another person.