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Q:
The continuing urban growth of New York City from 1820 to 1860 resulted primarily from its
A) access to waterpower.
B) manufacturing of textiles.
C) being an intersection of natural transportation routes.
D) role in domestic and foreign trade.
Q:
In the decades before the Civil War, Cincinnati workers
A) viewed their bosses as a separate and hostile class.
B) refused to join unions or participate in strikes.
C) struck for fair wages.
D) steadily improved their standard of living.
Q:
For most Cincinnati workers before the Civil War, a manufacturing job
A) imposed a form of "wage slavery."
B) encouraged the "manly virtues."
C) depended upon worker skills.
D) guaranteed a decent livelihood.
Q:
For outworkers, the invention of the sewing machine in the 1850s
A) reduced the pool of potential workers.
B) led bosses to expect a greater volume of work.
C) allowed workers to labor at home for the first time.
D) ensured easier and more pleasant tasks.
Q:
By the 1850s, all of the following factors undermined the united action of women mill workers EXCEPT the
A) long tenure of women workers.
B) arrival of Irish immigrants.
C) use of segregated living quarters.
D) hiring of more male workers.
Q:
A short-lived strike by Lowell's women workers in February 1834 occurred in protest of
A) wage cuts.
B) poor sales.
C) rising inventories.
D) falling prices.
Q:
Women workers at the Lowell mills
A) occupied operative, as well as managerial, positions.
B) seldom formed close ties with one another.
C) lived in closely supervised company boardinghouses.
D) faced challenging and varied routines.
Q:
The women who came to Lowell for mill jobs were
A) recruited only after owners failed to locate sufficient immigrant workers.
B) eager for permanent work and opportunities for advancement.
C) the first women to labor outside their homes in large numbers.
D) attempting to escape conditions of desperate poverty at home.
Q:
The most important innovation of Francis Cabot Lowell's Waltham operation was to
A) divide the tasks of spinning and weaving into separate operations.
B) accumulate the capital of a wide-ranging group of associates.
C) use New England's swift-flowing streams to power his mills.
D) combine the steps of cotton production under one roof.
Q:
The early mechanization of the cloth industry
A) increased both the volume and price of its goods.
B) supplemented rather than replaced home manufacturing.
C) occurred primarily in the South.
D) seldom saw women or children employed as laborers.
Q:
Antebellum advocates of public education hoped that the schools would
A) challenge the dominance of middle-class values.
B) demonstrate the benefits of economic progress.
C) teach students to think and act independently.
D) counter unsettling effects of economic change.
Q:
Manufacturers primarily valued education for their workers because it
A) removed child laborers from the workforce.
B) promoted feelings of self-worth.
C) encouraged habits of discipline and productivity.
D) improved intellectual skills.
Q:
Horace Mann championed which of the following educational reforms?
A) uniform curricula and teacher training
B) gradeless, open-concept schools
C) local curricular decisions
D) private funding and control
Q:
Intangible factors contributing to America's antebellum economic growth included the
A) steady issue of government patents for new tools and machines.
B) rapid expansion of and improvement in transportation networks.
C) entrepreneurial mentality and mechanical nature of most Americans.
D) need to compensate for the continual shortage of labor and goods.
Q:
Between 1819 and 1824, a series of Supreme Court decisions established the basic principle that
A) debtors could repudiate unfair debts.
B) contracts were binding legal instruments.
C) land was intended for subsistence, not exploitation.
D) states could modify their charters.
Q:
State governments promoted economic growth by
A) underwriting bonds for improvement projects.
B) repealing laws of incorporation.
C) guarding against special privileges.
D) taxing interstate commerce.
Q:
The dramatic improvement in transportation networks between 1810 and 1860 contributed to the
A) intervention of governmental controls.
B) trend toward regional specialization.
C) higher costs of transportation.
D) demise of American agriculture.
Q:
The federal government encouraged economic expansion by
A) establishing the Second Bank of the United States.
B) cooperating with state governments on internal improvements.
C) shielding American products with tariffs.
D) hiring Native American workers.
Q:
During the 1820s and 1830s, canal building projects
A) provided cheap and reliable access to distant markets and goods.
B) increased freight rates to cover project expenses.
C) fostered strong ties between the North and South.
D) revitalized eastern cities and hindered western settlement.
Q:
All of the following factors contributed to American economic growth from 1820 to 1860 EXCEPT the
A) maintenance of low tariff rates.
B) abundance of natural resources.
C) influx of European capital.
D) increasing population.
Q:
From 1820 to 1860, the American economy witnessed a
A) consistent increase in available jobs and goods.
B) doubling of per capita income.
C) trend toward regional isolation.
D) decline in worker productivity.
Q:
Susan Warner responded to financial adversity by
A) giving piano lessons in her home.
B) opening a school for girls.
C) writing a novel for publication.
D) taking a job in a Lowell textile mill.
Q:
The ________ was an example of organized domestic resistance to American involvement in the War of 1812.
Q:
During the War of 1812, the British Navy ________American ports.
Q:
Congressional opposition to Madison's call for a war against the British in 1812 came primarily from the ________ states.
Q:
South Carolina's ________was a War Hawk regarding the War of 1812.
Q:
In the case of __________ (1816), the Court took a loose view of the construction of the Constitution.
Q:
President James Madison launched a __________network of roads and canals.
Q:
In the case of ________(1816), the Court claimed appellate jurisdiction over the decisions of state courts. .
Q:
In the case of ____________ (1803), the Court established the principle of judicial review.
Q:
Leading the Supreme Court during the early 1800s, _______ left an indelible stamp upon early American government.
Q:
At the urging of President Madison, Congress passed America's first ________: a set of duties on imported goods designed to protect American manufacturing.
Q:
Analyze the role of blacks during the War of 1812 and the impact of the conflict on African American people.
Q:
How did Native Americans respond to U.S. western expansion?
Q:
What were the main components of Jefferson's western strategy?
Q:
What is significant regarding the "Revolution of 1800"?
Q:
Explain the controversy surrounding the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Q:
Discuss the causes and consequences of Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts in 1786-1787.
Q:
Describe the XYZ affair.
Q:
Analyze the impact of the Haitian Revolution on slavery and relations with the United States.
Q:
George Washington's birthday unified the nation in the early 1800s.
Q:
Methodists and Baptists were particularly energized by the Second Great Awakening.
Q:
The Second Great Awakening was confined to New England.
Q:
In the 1790s, the United States experienced a religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.
Q:
The number of newspapers steadily decreased over time in the early United States.
Q:
Robert Fulton invented the railroad locomotive.
Q:
Human travel was the only means of mass communication across space in the early American Republic.
Q:
Free black women in early American cities worked as
A) domestics.
B) dock workers.
C) farm hands.
D) nurses.
Q:
New Orleans was originally a colony of the
A) French.
B) Spanish.
C) British.
D) Dutch.
Q:
By the 1820s, Philadelphia was becoming a center of ______ production.
A) slavery
B) tobacco
C) textile
D) lumber
Q:
Early American cities bred diseases such as
A) AIDS and Swine flu.
B) dysentery and typhoid.
C) smallpox and rubella.
D) gangrene.
Q:
Streets in early American cities
A) were swept clean daily by city workers.
B) remained untouched by humans and animals.
C) were filthy and maintained by swine.
D) were nonexistent.
Q:
Early American cities witnessed most Americans ________ to work.
A) walking
B) riding horses
C) riding in wagons
D) taking public trains
Q:
By 1820, the population of New York numbered _______ people.
A) 50,000
B) 75,000
C) 100,000
D) 200,000
Q:
From 1790-1820, the U.S. population increased by _______ percent.
A) 50
B) 60
C) 73
D) 84
Q:
The colony of Louisiana became part of the United States in the year
A) 1763.
B) 1783.
C) 1803.
D) 1833.
Q:
The cotton gin was invented by
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Eli Whitney
C) Richard Allen.
D) Henry Knox.
Q:
In the early 1800s, one of the most important southern exports was
A) bananas.
B) coal.
C) cotton.
D) porcelain.
Q:
By 1800, much of southern agriculture was
A) rapidly expanding.
B) in disarray.
C) farmed by free blacks.
D) burned over by fire.
Q:
By 1800, the average size of American farms was _______ acres.
A) 500-1,000
B) 300-400
C) 200-300
D) 150-100
Q:
In 1794, the United States won a decisive battle against Native Americans at the Battle of
A) Handsome Lake.
B) Running Waters.
C) Fallen Timbers.
D) Ocean Shore.
Q:
In the 1780s, a Native American leader who resisted white expansion was
A) Captain Jack.
B) Little Turtle.
C) Geronimo.
D) Sacajawea.
Q:
In 1808, the Cherokee adopted a legal code combining Indian and
A) Spanish law.
B) British law.
C) U.S. law.
D) French.
Q:
Indians who assimilated more than most included the
A) Sioux.
B) Cherokee
C) Navajo.
D) Hopi.
Q:
Iroquois in New York dealt with missionaries known as
A) witch doctors.
B) Quakers.
C) Eastern Orthodox monks.
D) the Sultan of Brunei.
Q:
Native Americans ceded land for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) trade goods.
B) annuity payments.
C) with the promise that no more lands would be desired by whites.
D) the desire of Indian tribes for African American slavery.
Q:
The Indian Intercourse Act of 1790 dealt with
A) federal treaties and Indian land.
B) marriage rights on tribal land.
C) religious ceremonies in cities.
D) water rights for immigrant people.
Q:
Washington's first Secretary of the Treasury was
A) Thomas Jefferson.
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Alexander Hamilton
D) James Madison.
Q:
Washington's first Secretary of War was
A) Thomas Jefferson.
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Henry Knox
D) James Madison.
Q:
In February 1791, Congress made a new tax law known as the
A) Cigarette Tax.
B) Whiskey Tax
C) Corn Tax
D) Rice Tax.
Q:
In February 1792, Congress approved the ______ bill.
A) bank
B) farm
C) factory
D) reservation
Q:
State war debts at the start of Washington's presidency totaled
A) over 21 million.
B) less than 10 million
C) over 100 million
D) more than 50 million.
Q:
Economic policy under President Washington was largely carried out by
A) George Mason.
B) Thomas Jefferson.
C) John Jay.
D) Alexander Hamilton.
Q:
The Federalists argued that a stronger national government was necessary to
A) establish public credit.
B) extend American trade.
C) spur economic recovery.
D) protect national interests.
Q:
Which of the following men was NOT an early subscriber to the Federalist philosophy?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) George Washington
D) James Madison
Q:
Massachusetts responded to Shays's Rebellion with a
A) reduction of taxes.
B) new issue of additional paper money.
C) moratorium on private debts.
D) dispatch of armed militiamen.
Q:
The crisis that ultimately sparked Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts began with the
A) passage of state "stay laws."
B) removal of English goods from local markets.
C) collapse of a complicated pyramid of credit and debt.
D) public panic and runs on state banks.
Q:
Which of the following issues was NOT a contributing factor to Shays's Rebellion?
A) Indian raids
B) taxation
C) debt
D) paper money
Q:
The majority of free blacks lived and worked in
A) ships.
B) towns.
C) hospitals.
D) plantations.
Q:
In the early 1800s, slaves were imported into, Georgia and
A) South Carolina.
B) Virginia.
C) Maryland.
D) New York.