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Why did Charles Grandison Finney achieve his greatest success as a revivalist by preaching in Rochester, New York, in 1830?

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He won over influential merchants and manufacturers who pledged to reform their lives and those of their workers.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the life of Irish Catholic immigrants to the United States in the late 1840s and the 1850s?

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They built the same kind of social and cultural networks that other Americans had developed, which helped to sustain them in the face of Protestant hostility.

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Almost three-quarters of the money invested in canal building before 1840 had been provided by

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state governments, often borrowing from British and Dutch investors.

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After 1820, there were three major "streams", or migration patterns, of people settling the American interior, including all of the following except

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from New Orleans up the Mississippi River Valley into the Ohio and Missouri Valleys.

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In Cincinnati, which became an important meatpacking center in the 1830s and 18402, the introduction of factory methods in the packing industry meant that

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a few simple mechanical devices were used to create an assembly line of meatpackers who performed tasks that were familiar in most rural households.

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Which of the following statements best characterizes the living conditions of most Irish immigrants?

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Irish immigrants were particularly susceptible to the frequent epidemics of infectious diseases, such as cholera.

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Fall-line towns, whose growth surged with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, included all of the following except

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Cincinnati, Ohio.

Front 8

For the United States, the earliest consequence of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century Britain was that

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cheap, factory-made British cloth flooded the American market, threatening the livelihood of hand spinners and weavers.

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During the 1840s and the 1805s, Roman Catholic churches in the United States

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provided community services and a sense of group identity for most Irish and many German immigrants.

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Thomas Jefferson

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dropped his long-standing objections to industrialization and expressed pride in American progress in manufacturing just a year before his death.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the American labor movement in the 1830s?

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It devised the labor theory of value, arguing that the price of a product should reflect the labor required to make and should be paid primarily to the producer.

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The temperance convert John Gough

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experienced a terrifying bout with delirium tremens and had a relapse after a month of abstinence.

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Most members of the business class responded to the inequities of the Industrial Revolution by

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working to control the social disorder that industrialization had created while urging the poor to adopt the virtues of industry and rise in the world.

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The rapid growth of western cities such as Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis resulted from their

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location at points where goods had to be transferred from one mode of transport to another.

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The Native American Clubs that formed in response to the growth of Catholicism in the United States called for all of the following except

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an amendment to the Constitution forcing Catholics to renounce the pope or lose their right to vote.

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Between around 1820 and 1840, the economic conditions for casual day laborers in American cites

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bore the brunt of unemployment during business depressions.

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In the first half of the nineteenth century, the most significant infrastructural improvement made by the federal government in cooperation with state governments was the construction of the

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National Road.

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The clergyman who most directly associated with the rise of the "Benevolent empire" and the phrase "the moral government of God" in the 1820s and 1830s was

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Lyman Beecher.

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How did mechanization affect the profitability of spinning?

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For the worker, profits remained low; for the business owner, production costs lowered as individual productivity and consistent quality of the thread was improved.

Front 20

New York City became the economic center of the United States by the 1830s because it

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secured control of foreign trade with Europe and South America.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the consumption of alcoholic beverages by workers during the 1820s?

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Many workers used alcohol as an escape from the routine of work, smuggling whiskey into the workplace.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the situation of skilled wage workers in the 18020s?

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Some workers in the building trades had sufficiently valuable skills and enough sense of craft identity to be able to form unions and to bargain with the master artisans who employed them.

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Due to the expansion of railroads between the Northeast and the Midwest,

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the Midwest came to resemble the Northeast culturally, ethnically, and technologically.

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Members of the early nineteenth-century American middle class

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came to share the values of the business elite, even though they lived more modestly.

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The "fall line" is significant in the history of American industrialization because it was

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the line along which the Appalachian foothills dropped to the Atlantic coastal plain, where rivers formed rapids and factory owners could most efficiently operate their water-powered mills and factories.

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The American city known in the early nineteenth century as "Porkopolis" because of the assembly-line methods by which it butchered hogs was

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Cincinnati.

Front 27

The British Mechanic _____ was instrumental in setting up the most advanced textile mill in the United States in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1790.

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Samuel Slater

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The wealthy New York silk merchants _____ and _____ founded the Christian Evangelist to promote the message of Charles Grandison Finney.

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----

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Reformers of the 1820s saw the decline in observance of _____ as one of the greatest threats to the "moral government of God".

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Sabbath

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In the early 1840s the _____ became the vehicle for anti-Catholic mechanics' fears and hatred of immigrants willing to work for low wages; they frequently stirred up riots against Irish newcomers.

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Native Clubs