Question 1

Women who worked at the Lowell mills:

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A)   never had time to make friends.
B)   commuted daily to work from their family farms.
C)   quickly organized a union to strike for higher wages.
D)   lived in closely supervised boardinghouses.E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 2

The Book of Mormon states that:

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A)   Joseph Smith was divine.
B)   the second coming of Christ would occur in Europe.
C)   Native Americans were descended from people from the Middle East.
D)   Joseph Smith's visions were untrue.E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 3

The Erie Canal:

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A)   was far longer than any other canal in the United States at that time.
B)   attracted an influx of farmers migrating from Virginia and the Carolinas to the Northwest.
C)   was strongly opposed by residents of Buffalo and Rochester, who feared their cities would lose business.
D)   was championed by Pennsylvania governor William Findlay.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 4

Who were the two most prominent members of the transcendentalist movement?

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A)   Orestes Brownson and Karl Marx.
B)   Cyrus McCormick and John Deere.
C)   Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
D)   Lydia Maria Child and Harriet Noble.E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 5

In today's society, who best resembles Henry David Thoreau's ideas from his stay at Walden?

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A)   A pro-war demonstrator.
B)   A hermit growing an organic garden.
C)   An Amish community raising a barn.
D)   A hippie-like commune that makes its own clothes.E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 6

In the 1840s, nativists blamed immigrants for what?

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A)   Epidemics in American cities.
B)   An increase in Protestant revivalism.
C)   Urban crime and political corruption.
D)   A decline in the sales of alcohol.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 7

How did westward movement affect the South?

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A)   The lack of canals slowed down the use of slaves.
B)   The plantation slave-based economy was replicated in Alabama and Mississippi.
C)   Trade with the eastern United States was no longer seen as a priority.
D)   The South developed a highly effective and large railroad system to transport goods from west to east.E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 8

During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans:

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A)   could not, under federal law, obtain public land.
B)   found, as whites did, that the West offered the best opportunities for economic advancement.
C)   rose in economic status, but more slowly than whites.
D)   joined with white artisans in biracial unions that successfully struck for higher wages.E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 9

In Gibbons v. Ogden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

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A)   the Louisiana Purchase was unconstitutional.
B)   Congress had the authority to create the Bank of the United States.
C)   New York could not grant a monopoly on steamboat navigation between New York and New Jersey.
D)   corporations were illegal because their potential to become monopolistic posed a threat to individual free enterprise.E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 10

How did the market revolution change the way Americans conceived of time?

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A)   It led Congress to create time zones in 1823.
B)   Clocks increasingly regulated the separation of work and leisure time.
C)   Artisans began spending their lunch hours in political discussions rather than just taking breaks as they worked throughout the day.
D)   It lengthened life expectancy because Americans no longer had to work from sunrise to sunset as they had on farms.E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 11

What sparked the rapid growth of Chicago from a small settlement in 1830 to America's fourth largest city by 1860?

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A)   The city became a major marketplace for cotton.
B)   Railroads connected Chicago to numerous eastern marketplaces.
C)   It was home to the most escaped slaves in the United States.
D)   The city started to build the first skyscapers.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 12

The cult of domesticity:

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A)   received very little support, which is why people referred to it as a cult, or a small fringe group.
B)   represented a significant break with the idea of republican motherhood.
C)   was based on the idea that women should be less dependent upon men.
D)   led to a decline in birthrates.E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 13

What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

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A)   Tobacco.
B)   Coal.
C)   Timber.
D)   Cotton.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 14

Which of the following is true of Lafayette's 1824 visit to the United States?

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A)   He made a series of speeches supporting the emancipation of slaves.
B)   Federalists strongly protested the visit because of Lafayette's connections with the French Revolution.
C)   Southern states banned "persons of color" from ceremonies honoring him.
D)   He negotiated a trade agreement that demonstrated the rising economic influence of the United States.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 15

The "American System of manufactures":

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A)   owed a great deal to Eli Terry's development of interchangeable parts in clockmaking.
B)   originated among entrepreneurs in the Old Northwest before spreading to New England.
C)   referred to the production of specialty handmade goods by highly skilled artisans.
D)   was centered entirely on agricultural machinery.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 16

What helped to encourage Richard Allen to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church?

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A)   Refused admission to Princeton Seminary because of his color, he decided to set up his own religious organization.
B)   He was forcibly removed from praying at the altar rail at his former place of worship.
C)   He wanted to see an integrated church that combined the elements he admired most in the Methodist and Episcopal denominations.
D)   Frederick Douglass gave him a generous grant to establish a new church.E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 17

The American Scholar (1837) 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another sign of our times, also marked by an analogous political movement, is, the new importance given to the single person. Every thing that tends to insulate the individual,-to surround him with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state;-tends to true union as well as greatness. "I learned," said the melancholy Pestalozzi, "that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man." Help must come from the bosom alone. . . .
We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
-Emerson's writing exemplifies the ideas of Americans who worried about the consequences of

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A)   the market revolution and materialism.
B)   the expansion of slavery.
C)   the demise of public schooling.
D)   foreign encroachment on American territory.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Exam 9: The Market Revolution, 1800-1840

What sparked the rapid growth of Chicago from a small settlement in 1830 to America's fourth largest city by 1860?

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What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

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Which of the following is true of Lafayette's 1824 visit to the United States?

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How did the market revolution change the way Americans conceived of time?

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How did westward movement affect the South?

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans:

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Who were the two most prominent members of the transcendentalist movement?

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The Book of Mormon states that:

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In Gibbons v. Ogden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

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In today's society, who best resembles Henry David Thoreau's ideas from his stay at Walden?

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What helped to encourage Richard Allen to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church?

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The Erie Canal:

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The cult of domesticity:

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The "American System of manufactures":

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In the 1840s, nativists blamed immigrants for what?

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Women who worked at the Lowell mills:

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What sparked the rapid growth of Chicago from a small settlement in 1830 to America's fourth largest city by 1860?

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Which of the following is true of Lafayette's 1824 visit to the United States?

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How did the market revolution change the way Americans conceived of time?

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, free black Americans:

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The Book of Mormon states that:

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In today's society, who best resembles Henry David Thoreau's ideas from his stay at Walden?

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What helped to encourage Richard Allen to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church?

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The Erie Canal:

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The cult of domesticity:

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