Question 1

Which improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  the transcontinental railroad 
B)  canals and steamboats 
C)  the factory system 
D)  a system of federally financed roads 
E)  the establishment of an efficient postal system 
A)  the transcontinental railroad 
B)  canals and steamboats 
C)  the factory system 
D)  a system of federally financed roads 
E)  the establishment of an efficient postal system

Question 2

The Second Great Awakening

Accepted Answer

A)  promoted the belief that individuals were free to shape their own spiritual destinies. 
B)  conflicted with the communal ethos of the market revolution. 
C)  only appealed to elite Americans. 
D)  reduced the importance of Christianity in American culture. 
E)  refers to the ascendance of Catholicism as the dominant religion in the United States. 
A)  promoted the belief that individuals were free to shape their own spiritual destinies. 
B)  conflicted with the communal ethos of the market revolution. 
C)  only appealed to elite Americans. 
D)  reduced the importance of Christianity in American culture. 
E)  refers to the ascendance of Catholicism as the dominant religion in the United States.

Question 3

What geographical feature in the Old Northwest served as an internal borderland?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Appalachian Mountains 
B)  Lake Erie 
C)  the Mississippi River 
D)  Lake Michigan 
E)  the Ohio River 
A)  the Appalachian Mountains 
B)  Lake Erie 
C)  the Mississippi River 
D)  Lake Michigan 
E)  the Ohio River

Question 4

Which is true of the popular book The Frugal Housewife?

Accepted Answer

A)  It promised economic success to women who took in piecework at home. 
B)  It was actually written by a man, using a pen name. 
C)  It depicted the household as a prison that women needed to escape. 
D)  It was written by the wife of Charles Grandison Finney. 
E)  It had a chapter titled "How to Endure Poverty." 
A)  It promised economic success to women who took in piecework at home. 
B)  It was actually written by a man, using a pen name. 
C)  It depicted the household as a prison that women needed to escape. 
D)  It was written by the wife of Charles Grandison Finney. 
E)  It had a chapter titled "How to Endure Poverty."

Question 5

Which group represents the typical pattern of western migration between 1790 and 1840?

Accepted Answer

A)  lone, male pioneers, who sent for their families once they'd established a homestead 
B)  groups who helped one another clear land, put up buildings, and establish communities 
C)  recently married couples who did not yet have any children, although many of the women were pregnant 
D)  groups of young men in fierce competition with one another for resources and land 
E)  immigrant families from southern Europe, who proceeded west on trains from the port cities 
A)  lone, male pioneers, who sent for their families once they'd established a homestead 
B)  groups who helped one another clear land, put up buildings, and establish communities 
C)  recently married couples who did not yet have any children, although many of the women were pregnant 
D)  groups of young men in fierce competition with one another for resources and land 
E)  immigrant families from southern Europe, who proceeded west on trains from the port cities

Question 6

What is the significance of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?

Accepted Answer

A)  The internal slave trade within the United States grew dramatically. 
B)  The Atlantic slave trade continued to bring slaves in large numbers to the United States up until 1860. 
C)  The Erie Canal became the primary waterway for shipping cotton. 
D)  Cotton production decreased dramatically for twenty-five years. 
E)  The federal government recommended using Indians as slaves. 
A)  The internal slave trade within the United States grew dramatically. 
B)  The Atlantic slave trade continued to bring slaves in large numbers to the United States up until 1860. 
C)  The Erie Canal became the primary waterway for shipping cotton. 
D)  Cotton production decreased dramatically for twenty-five years. 
E)  The federal government recommended using Indians as slaves.

Question 7

In the first half of the nineteenth century, Cincinnati became known as what?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Crossroads of America 
B)  the Kingdom Built by Corn 
C)  Little Germany 
D)  the Gateway to the West 
E)  Porkopolis 
A)  the Crossroads of America 
B)  the Kingdom Built by Corn 
C)  Little Germany 
D)  the Gateway to the West 
E)  Porkopolis

Question 8

The "American System of manufactures"

Accepted Answer

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 on agricultural machinery. 
E)  was nearly derailed by Chief Justice John Marshall's hostility to economic development. 
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 on agricultural machinery. 
E)  was nearly derailed by Chief Justice John Marshall's hostility to economic development.

Question 9

The Second Great Awakening both took advantage of the market revolution and criticized its excesses.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Henry David Thoreau believed that

Accepted Answer

A)  economic independence was essential for freedom. 
B)  genuine freedom lay within the individual. 
C)  the market revolution brought freedom to many. 
D)  true freedom was not obtainable. 
E)  government was the ultimate expression of freedom. 
A)  economic independence was essential for freedom. 
B)  genuine freedom lay within the individual. 
C)  the market revolution brought freedom to many. 
D)  true freedom was not obtainable. 
E)  government was the ultimate expression of freedom.

Question 11

Which represents the experience of free blacks in the North during the period of the market revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  Even skilled workers faced limited economic opportunities. 
B)  An economically successful, but politically weak, middle class of black doctors and lawyers developed. 
C)  The return of the practice of apprenticeships made many free blacks effective slaves to their employers. 
D)  Free blacks comprised the majority of factory workers in Philadelphia and Baltimore. 
E)  Populations of free blacks in the East plummeted as many migrated west to secure free government land. 
A)  Even skilled workers faced limited economic opportunities. 
B)  An economically successful, but politically weak, middle class of black doctors and lawyers developed. 
C)  The return of the practice of apprenticeships made many free blacks effective slaves to their employers. 
D)  Free blacks comprised the majority of factory workers in Philadelphia and Baltimore. 
E)  Populations of free blacks in the East plummeted as many migrated west to secure free government land.

Question 12

Nativists

Accepted Answer

A)  blamed immigrants for civil unrest following the Civil War. 
B)  accused immigrants of undercutting native-born unskilled laborers. 
C)  believed that Protestantism threatened American institutions and American freedom. 
D)  stereotyped the Irish as childlike, lazy, heavy drinkers who were unsuited for republican freedom. 
E)  believed in the importance of preserving the lands of indigenous peoples in North America. 
A)  blamed immigrants for civil unrest following the Civil War. 
B)  accused immigrants of undercutting native-born unskilled laborers. 
C)  believed that Protestantism threatened American institutions and American freedom. 
D)  stereotyped the Irish as childlike, lazy, heavy drinkers who were unsuited for republican freedom. 
E)  believed in the importance of preserving the lands of indigenous peoples in North America.

Question 13

By the 1850s, Massachusetts had become the second most industrialized region of the world, after Great Britain.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

What do historians mean when they assert that the Second Great Awakening "democratized" American Christianity? What are the strengths and weaknesses of that assertion?

Accepted Answer

The term "democratized" in the context o

Question 15

As a result of the market revolution, skilled craftsmen generally

Accepted Answer

A)  gained more control over their workday. 
B)  increased the complexity of their skills. 
C)  worked more at home. 
D)  ended up producing only one part of a product. 
E)  accepted their loss of economic freedom without protest. 
A)  gained more control over their workday. 
B)  increased the complexity of their skills. 
C)  worked more at home. 
D)  ended up producing only one part of a product. 
E)  accepted their loss of economic freedom without protest.

Question 16

Which of the following was a theme of Henry David Thoreau's Walden?

Accepted Answer

A)  the ways in which the market revolution had damaged the natural environment 
B)  a celebration of the American West as a bastion of freedom 
C)  the responsibility each person had to choose between a sinful life and a righteous one 
D)  a condemnation of the selfishness of the wealthy 
E)  the need for legislation to protect worker's rights 
A)  the ways in which the market revolution had damaged the natural environment 
B)  a celebration of the American West as a bastion of freedom 
C)  the responsibility each person had to choose between a sinful life and a righteous one 
D)  a condemnation of the selfishness of the wealthy 
E)  the need for legislation to protect worker's rights

Question 17

John Jacob Astor was seen as an example of the "self-made man."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

John O'Sullivan coined the term "manifest destiny" to describe America's divinely appointed mission to settle all of North America.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Which of the following describes the role of cotton in the U.S. market revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin reduced the demand for slave labor. 
B)  The price paid for cotton plummeted and many cotton farmers went out of business. 
C)  Slavery expanded dramatically in the South. 
D)  Cotton shifted America's wealth to the South, creating a recession in the northern states. 
E)  Cotton production created new economic opportunities for poorer southern farmers. 
A)  Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin reduced the demand for slave labor. 
B)  The price paid for cotton plummeted and many cotton farmers went out of business. 
C)  Slavery expanded dramatically in the South. 
D)  Cotton shifted America's wealth to the South, creating a recession in the northern states. 
E)  Cotton production created new economic opportunities for poorer southern farmers.

Question 20

What does Margaret McCarthy promise that her family will find in America in her 1850 letter?

Accepted Answer

A)  wealth and luxury 
B)  freedom from social constraints 
C)  work and food 
D)  farmland in the western territories 
E)  a vibrant Irish community 
A)  wealth and luxury 
B)  freedom from social constraints 
C)  work and food 
D)  farmland in the western territories 
E)  a vibrant Irish community

Exam 9: The Market Revolution, 1800-1840

Which improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?

The Second Great Awakening

What geographical feature in the Old Northwest served as an internal borderland?

Which is true of the popular book The Frugal Housewife?

Which group represents the typical pattern of western migration between 1790 and 1840?

What is the significance of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?

In the first half of the nineteenth century, Cincinnati became known as what?

The "American System of manufactures"

The Second Great Awakening both took advantage of the market revolution and criticized its excesses.

Henry David Thoreau believed that

Which represents the experience of free blacks in the North during the period of the market revolution?

Nativists

By the 1850s, Massachusetts had become the second most industrialized region of the world, after Great Britain.

What do historians mean when they assert that the Second Great Awakening "democratized" American Christianity? What are the strengths and weaknesses of that assertion?

As a result of the market revolution, skilled craftsmen generally

Which of the following was a theme of Henry David Thoreau's Walden?

John Jacob Astor was seen as an example of the "self-made man."

John O'Sullivan coined the term "manifest destiny" to describe America's divinely appointed mission to settle all of North America.

Which of the following describes the role of cotton in the U.S. market revolution?

What does Margaret McCarthy promise that her family will find in America in her 1850 letter?

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