HY120 CHAPTER 9

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(Q026) Democracy in America was written by ralph waldo emerson Alexis de Tocqueville. andrew jackson thomas jefferson

Alexis de Tocqueville.

(Q033) Between 1840 and 1860, most immigrants entering the United States were from what two countries? poland and italy spain and portugal germany and ireland france and england

Germany and Ireland

(Q059) 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 false

True

(Q022) The Second Great Awakening was a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s. emerson and thoreaus utopian vision of the labor movement a celebration of the factory replacing outdated methods of producing goods the rebirth of classical learning in the rising american university

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

(Q025) Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following? a transcendentalist a southerner the author of uncle toms cabin proslavery

a transcendentalist

(Q037) New York City and Philadelphia experienced what type of violent events in the 1840s and 1850s? indian attacks anti immigrant riots slave rebellions bread riots led by women

anti-immigrant riots

(Q012) What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves? steam engine revolver cotton gin iron smelter

cotton gin

(Q046) The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution. true false

false

(Q053) Florida was victoriously delivered to American hands with the assistance of local Indians and Spain's suggestion to sell the area. true false

false

(Q040) The Alien Act of 1798 reflected fear of immigrants possessing passports birth control information radical political views pro us literature

radical political views.

(Q014) Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to canals steamboat steel plow railroads

railroads.

(Q016) What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States? stimulated its growth caused a sharp collapse in U.S. manufacturers reduced it gradually reduced production in the north, but increased production in the south

stimulated its growth

(Q020) "Manifest destiny" was an idea that the truth will manifest itself regarding the politics of the early nation the belief that the united states had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward the famous liost of the cargo-the manifest-carried by HMS Destiny the name of the frigate invented by robert fulton that first sailed up the hudson river

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

(Q008) Which of the following was a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution? americas failure to attract many newcomers from europe the rise of employment the increase of small businesses the increasing dependence of workers upon wage labor

the increasing dependence of workers upon wage labor

(Q005) The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated an agreement not to allow slavery in the new states of indiana and ohio the purchase of land in which to construct the national road an end to fighting between france and the united states the sale of parts of Florida from Spain to the United States.

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

(Q029) 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. with their owners to work as free people by themselves with local native american tribes

to the Deep South to work in cotton fields.

(Q049) During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth. true false

true

(Q057) 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 false

true

(Q018) Early U.S. textile mills relied largely on the labor of men organized into early trade unions indentured servants unskilled boys and young men fresh from the farm women and children.

women and children.

(Q036) 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 quaker lutheran anabaptism

Mormonism


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