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According to John O’Sullivan, the “manifest destiny” of the United States to occupy North America could be traced to: |
a divine mission. |
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America’s first commercial railroad was the: |
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. |
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At the Lowell textile mills: |
the owners established lecture halls, churches, and a worker-edited periodical to occupy the workers’ free time. |
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During the first half of the nineteenth century, individualism: |
was rooted in the idea of self-sufficiency. |
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For which one of the following did nativists NOT blame immigrants in the 1840s? |
increased Protestantism |
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Henry David Thoreau believed that: |
genuine freedom lay within the individual. |
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How did the market revolution affect the lives of artisans? |
Gathered in factories, they faced constant supervision and the breakdown of craftsmanship into specialized tasks. |
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In an 1837 case involving the Charles River in Massachusetts, Chief Justice Roger Taney: |
declared the community had a legitimate interest in promoting transportation and prosperity. |
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In his essay “The Laboring Classes,” Orestes Brownson argued that: |
radical social change would produce equality between men. |
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Most of the states that entered the Union in the six years immediately following the War of 1812 were located: |
west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
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Samuel Slater: |
established America’s first factory. |
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Squatters: |
set up farms on unoccupied land. |
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The “American System of manufactures”: |
relied on the mass production of interchangeable parts. |
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The “German triangle” in the mid-nineteenth century referred to: |
Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Milwaukee—cities with large German populations. |
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The American railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century: |
stimulated the coal-mining industry. |
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The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in: |
transportation and communication. |
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The cult of domesticity: |
led to a decline in birthrates. |
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The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest? |
New York |
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The Erie Canal: |
was far longer than any other canal in the United States at that time. |
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The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was: |
textiles. |
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The majority of the nearly 4 million immigrants that entered the United States between 1840 and 1860 were from: |
Germany and Ireland. |
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The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to: |
focus her energies on the home and children. |
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The transcendentalist movement: |
emphasized individual judgment, not tradition. |
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The women who protested during the Shoemakers’ Strike in Lynn compared their condition to that of: |
slaves. |
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What city was known as “porkopolis” because of its slaughterhouses that butchered and processed hundreds of thousands of pigs each year? |
Cincinnati |
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What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s? |
Steam power meant factories no longer had to be near waterfalls and rapids to generate the power. |
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What helped to encourage Richard Allen to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church? |
He was forcibly removed from praying at the altar rail at his former place of worship. |
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What improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century? |
canals and steamboats |
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What problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin? |
Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive. |
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What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century? |
cotton |
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What was the significance of Robert Fulton? |
His work in designing steamboats made upstream commerce possible. |
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Which denomination enjoyed the largest membership in the United States by the 1840s? |
Methodist |
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Which one of the following is NOT an example of the significance of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin? |
The completion of the Erie Canal allowed the transportation of thousands of pounds of cotton per day |
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Which one of the following was NOT a way in which westward movement affected the South? |
The South had to develop a highly effective railroad system to transport goods from west to east. |
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Women who worked at the Lowell mills: |
lived in closely supervised boardinghouses. |