Question 1

Which statement about corporations was true in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Most Americans favored corporate charters with special privileges. 
B)  The corporation was only a small part of the new market economy. 
C)  Charters from the government strictly controlled corporations. 
D)  Corporations were able to raise far more capital than the traditional forms of enterprise. 
E)  A corporation could fail, leading to jail time for its directors and stockholders. 
A)  Most Americans favored corporate charters with special privileges. 
B)  The corporation was only a small part of the new market economy. 
C)  Charters from the government strictly controlled corporations. 
D)  Corporations were able to raise far more capital than the traditional forms of enterprise. 
E)  A corporation could fail, leading to jail time for its directors and stockholders.

Question 2

According to nineteenth-century American society,who would be a good representative of the "cult of domesticity"?

Accepted Answer

A)  A "spinster." 
B)  A single woman factory worker. 
C)  An independent woman writer. 
D)  A prostitute. 
E)  A housewife. 
A)  A "spinster." 
B)  A single woman factory worker. 
C)  An independent woman writer. 
D)  A prostitute. 
E)  A housewife.

Question 3

Explain how improvements in transportation and communication made possible the rise of the West as a powerful,self-conscious region of the new nation.Discuss the internal borderlands within the West.

Accepted Answer

The improvements in transportation and c

Question 4

In the 1840s,nativists blamed immigrants for what?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

Women who worked at the Lowell mills:

Accepted Answer

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)  held management positions. 
E)  lived in closely supervised boardinghouses. 
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)  held management positions. 
E)  lived in closely supervised boardinghouses.

Question 6

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Roger Taney

Accepted Answer

A) Supreme Court chief justice 
B) transcendentalist 
C) coined the term "manifest destiny" 
D) established America's first factory 
E) steamboat innovator
F)African Methodist Episcopal Church
G)steel plow
H)self-made millionaire
I)preacher in New York
J)reaper
K)The American Frugal Housewife
L)called for a radical change in the wage labor system 
A) Supreme Court chief justice 
B) transcendentalist 
C) coined the term "manifest destiny" 
D) established America's first factory 
E) steamboat innovator
F)African Methodist Episcopal Church
G)steel plow
H)self-made millionaire
I)preacher in New York
J)reaper
K)The American Frugal Housewife
L)called for a radical change in the wage labor system

Question 7

The idea of leveling the playing field between worker and management was best personified in the writings of which American?

Accepted Answer

A)  Karl Marx. 
B)  Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
C)  Orestes Brownson. 
D)  Henry David Thoreau. 
E)  Joseph Smith. 
A)  Karl Marx. 
B)  Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
C)  Orestes Brownson. 
D)  Henry David Thoreau. 
E)  Joseph Smith.

Question 8

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Orestes Brownson

Accepted Answer

A) Supreme Court chief justice 
B) transcendentalist 
C) coined the term "manifest destiny" 
D) established America's first factory 
E) steamboat innovator
F)African Methodist Episcopal Church
G)steel plow
H)self-made millionaire
I)preacher in New York
J)reaper
K)The American Frugal Housewife
L)called for a radical change in the wage labor system 
A) Supreme Court chief justice 
B) transcendentalist 
C) coined the term "manifest destiny" 
D) established America's first factory 
E) steamboat innovator
F)African Methodist Episcopal Church
G)steel plow
H)self-made millionaire
I)preacher in New York
J)reaper
K)The American Frugal Housewife
L)called for a radical change in the wage labor system

Question 9

What did Noah Webster's American Dictionary define as "a state of exemption from the power or control of another"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Masculinity. 
B)  Individualism. 
C)  Artisanship. 
D)  Freedom. 
E)  Weakness. 
A)  Masculinity. 
B)  Individualism. 
C)  Artisanship. 
D)  Freedom. 
E)  Weakness.

Question 10

Comment on what Alexis de Tocqueville meant when he said that Americans "combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other." How accurate do you think that observation was?

Accepted Answer

Alexis de Tocqueville, a French politica

Question 11

The Workingman's Parties would praise what twenty-first-century activity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Technology is used to replace workers in a factory. 
B)  The president orders strikers to return to work. 
C)  The federal minimum wage is raised. 
D)  A company downsizes to bring in more profit. 
E)  A corporation prevents its workers from fraternizing. 
A)  Technology is used to replace workers in a factory. 
B)  The president orders strikers to return to work. 
C)  The federal minimum wage is raised. 
D)  A company downsizes to bring in more profit. 
E)  A corporation prevents its workers from fraternizing.

Question 12

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 13

In the early decades of the nineteenth century,what helped shape southern Ohio?

Accepted Answer

A)  New England settlers who moved to Ohio. 
B)  Slaveholders from Kentucky. 
C)  Migrants from St. Louis. 
D)  Merchants from northern Ohio. 
E)  Immigrants from Mexico. 
A)  New England settlers who moved to Ohio. 
B)  Slaveholders from Kentucky. 
C)  Migrants from St. Louis. 
D)  Merchants from northern Ohio. 
E)  Immigrants from Mexico.

Question 14

In his essay "The Laboring Classes," Orestes Brownson argued that:

Accepted Answer

A)  wealth and labor were at war. 
B)  each worker's problems had to be understood individually. 
C)  government was the cause of workers' problems. 
D)  workers were lazy and easily tempted by alcohol. 
E)  workers had achieved true freedom thanks to free enterprise. 
A)  wealth and labor were at war. 
B)  each worker's problems had to be understood individually. 
C)  government was the cause of workers' problems. 
D)  workers were lazy and easily tempted by alcohol. 
E)  workers had achieved true freedom thanks to free enterprise.

Question 15

Which of the following was responsible for the first large-scale American factory,which was built in Massachusetts?

Accepted Answer

A)  Henry Clay, whose sponsorship of a protective tariff made the factory economically viable. 
B)  The cutting off of British imports because of the Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812. 
C)  Cyrus McCormick, who built the factory to produce his reaper. 
D)  The American victory in the War of 1812, which made the United States economically dominant in the Atlantic world. 
E)  Samuel F. B. Morse, who became better known for inventing the telegraph. 
A)  Henry Clay, whose sponsorship of a protective tariff made the factory economically viable. 
B)  The cutting off of British imports because of the Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812. 
C)  Cyrus McCormick, who built the factory to produce his reaper. 
D)  The American victory in the War of 1812, which made the United States economically dominant in the Atlantic world. 
E)  Samuel F. B. Morse, who became better known for inventing the telegraph.

Question 16

The religious revivals of the early nineteenth century were originally organized by established religious leaders alarmed by the low levels of church attendance in the young republic.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-transcendentalism

Accepted Answer

A) a celebration of the home 
B) revolutionized American slavery 
C) mass production of interchangeable parts 
D) a personal moral quality associated with women 
E) a belief that American expansion was divinely appointed
F)religious revival
G)a decree that labor organization was legal
H)a literary and philosophical movement
I)groups chained together while migrating to the Deep South
J)a chartered entity that has rights and liabilities distinct from those of its members
K)prejudice against immigrants
L)waterway linking New York City to the Great Lakes 
A) a celebration of the home 
B) revolutionized American slavery 
C) mass production of interchangeable parts 
D) a personal moral quality associated with women 
E) a belief that American expansion was divinely appointed
F)religious revival
G)a decree that labor organization was legal
H)a literary and philosophical movement
I)groups chained together while migrating to the Deep South
J)a chartered entity that has rights and liabilities distinct from those of its members
K)prejudice against immigrants
L)waterway linking New York City to the Great Lakes

Question 18

There was a significant increase in the American birthrate during the nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-slave coffles

Accepted Answer

A) a celebration of the home 
B) revolutionized American slavery 
C) mass production of interchangeable parts 
D) a personal moral quality associated with women 
E) a belief that American expansion was divinely appointed
F)religious revival
G)a decree that labor organization was legal
H)a literary and philosophical movement
I)groups chained together while migrating to the Deep South
J)a chartered entity that has rights and liabilities distinct from those of its members
K)prejudice against immigrants
L)waterway linking New York City to the Great Lakes 
A) a celebration of the home 
B) revolutionized American slavery 
C) mass production of interchangeable parts 
D) a personal moral quality associated with women 
E) a belief that American expansion was divinely appointed
F)religious revival
G)a decree that labor organization was legal
H)a literary and philosophical movement
I)groups chained together while migrating to the Deep South
J)a chartered entity that has rights and liabilities distinct from those of its members
K)prejudice against immigrants
L)waterway linking New York City to the Great Lakes

Question 20

The women who protested during the Shoemakers' Strike in Lynn compared their condition to that of:

Accepted Answer

A)  indentured servants. 
B)  slaves. 
C)  Irish immigrants. 
D)  religious dissenters. 
E)  Indians. 
A)  indentured servants. 
B)  slaves. 
C)  Irish immigrants. 
D)  religious dissenters. 
E)  Indians.

Exam 9: The Market Revolution,1800-1840

Which statement about corporations was true in the first half of the nineteenth century?

According to nineteenth-century American society,who would be a good representative of the "cult of domesticity"?

Explain how improvements in transportation and communication made possible the rise of the West as a powerful,self-conscious region of the new nation.Discuss the internal borderlands within the West.

In the 1840s,nativists blamed immigrants for what?

Women who worked at the Lowell mills:

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Roger Taney

The idea of leveling the playing field between worker and management was best personified in the writings of which American?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Orestes Brownson

What did Noah Webster's American Dictionary define as "a state of exemption from the power or control of another"?

Comment on what Alexis de Tocqueville meant when he said that Americans "combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other." How accurate do you think that observation was?

The Workingman's Parties would praise what twenty-first-century activity?

Henry David Thoreau believed that:

In the early decades of the nineteenth century,what helped shape southern Ohio?

In his essay "The Laboring Classes," Orestes Brownson argued that:

Which of the following was responsible for the first large-scale American factory,which was built in Massachusetts?

The religious revivals of the early nineteenth century were originally organized by established religious leaders alarmed by the low levels of church attendance in the young republic.

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -transcendentalism

There was a significant increase in the American birthrate during the nineteenth century.

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -slave coffles

The women who protested during the Shoemakers' Strike in Lynn compared their condition to that of:

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