HY 120 Final CHAPTER 9

Democracy in America was written by

Alexis de Tocqueville.

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

False

The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution.

False

Between 1840 and 1860, most immigrants entering the United States were from what two countries?

Germany and Ireland

This religion started after its 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.

Mormonism

During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth.

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

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

True

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

The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated

an end to fighting between France and the United States.

New York City and Philadelphia experienced what type of violent events in the 1840s and 1850s?

anti-immigrant riots

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

cotton gin

The Alien Act of 1798 reflected fear of immigrants possessing

radical political views.

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

railroads

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

stimulated its growth

"Manifest destiny" was

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

Which of the following was a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution?

the increasing dependence of workers upon wage labor

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

to the Deep South to work in cotton fields.

Early U.S. textile mills relied largely on the labor of

women and children.