Question 1

Why is the "age of the so-called common man" or the "age of Jacksonian democracy" an ironic name for this period?

Accepted Answer

The "age of the so-called common man" or

Question 2

In what way did women NOT remain within the home?

Accepted Answer

A)  working in professional occupations 
B)  teaching in schools 
C)  organizing community clubs and entertainments 
D)  working in religious and social service realms 
E)  playing leadership roles in municipal organizations 
A)  working in professional occupations 
B)  teaching in schools 
C)  organizing community clubs and entertainments 
D)  working in religious and social service realms 
E)  playing leadership roles in municipal organizations

Question 3

Cyrus McCormick's grain reapers:

Accepted Answer

A)  transformed the economy of the South 
B)  guaranteed that farmers would be successful 
C)  were powered by gasoline engines 
D)  were manufactured at his factory in Chicago 
E)  had to be assembled by farmers 
A)  transformed the economy of the South 
B)  guaranteed that farmers would be successful 
C)  were powered by gasoline engines 
D)  were manufactured at his factory in Chicago 
E)  had to be assembled by farmers

Question 4

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Elias Howe

Accepted Answer

A) invented the telegraph 
B) invented the sewing machine 
C) with Boston Associates, formed the Boston Manufacturing Company 
D) wrote "Oh! Susanna" 
E) immigrant piano maker
F)invented the primitive grain reaper
G)advocate of free public education
H)patented a process for vulcanizing rubber
I)improved the steamboat
J)used his memory to bring industrial technology from Britain to the United States 
A) invented the telegraph 
B) invented the sewing machine 
C) with Boston Associates, formed the Boston Manufacturing Company 
D) wrote "Oh! Susanna" 
E) immigrant piano maker
F)invented the primitive grain reaper
G)advocate of free public education
H)patented a process for vulcanizing rubber
I)improved the steamboat
J)used his memory to bring industrial technology from Britain to the United States

Question 5

During the first half of the nineteenth century, professionalization increased with the development of education, law, medicine, and engineering. Examine this development.

Accepted Answer

During the first half of the nineteenth

Question 6

In the antebellum era, prizefights lasted:

Accepted Answer

A)  a set number of rounds 
B)  as long as the crowd demanded 
C)  until one fighter could not continue 
D)  a set number of minutes 
E)  until one fighter drew blood on the other 
A)  a set number of rounds 
B)  as long as the crowd demanded 
C)  until one fighter could not continue 
D)  a set number of minutes 
E)  until one fighter drew blood on the other

Question 7

Steamboats:

Accepted Answer

A)  were commercially profitable by the 1790s 
B)  generally had at least twelve-foot drafts 
C)  brought cheaper and faster two-way traffic to the Mississippi Valley 
D)  were usually built of steel 
E)  soon made railroads obsolete 
A)  were commercially profitable by the 1790s 
B)  generally had at least twelve-foot drafts 
C)  brought cheaper and faster two-way traffic to the Mississippi Valley 
D)  were usually built of steel 
E)  soon made railroads obsolete

Question 8

Physicians in the early 1800s:

Accepted Answer

A)  were required to go to medical school 
B)  were closely regulated by the government 
C)  were mostly self-taught or apprenticed with an experienced doctor 
D)  were experts in modern medical science 
E)  provided roughly the same services as nurses 
A)  were required to go to medical school 
B)  were closely regulated by the government 
C)  were mostly self-taught or apprenticed with an experienced doctor 
D)  were experts in modern medical science 
E)  provided roughly the same services as nurses

Question 9

Discuss the unique role Catholicism played in the resistance to immigration.

Accepted Answer

For spiritual comfort and communal ident

Question 10

The various Workingmen's parties wanted:

Accepted Answer

A)  higher taxes for the wealthy 
B)  less government oversight 
C)  a more radical management philosophy 
D)  laws regulating banks 
E)  support from management 
A)  higher taxes for the wealthy 
B)  less government oversight 
C)  a more radical management philosophy 
D)  laws regulating banks 
E)  support from management

Exam 8: The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850

Why is the "age of the so-called common man" or the "age of Jacksonian democracy" an ironic name for this period?

In what way did women NOT remain within the home?

Cyrus McCormick's grain reapers:

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Elias Howe

During the first half of the nineteenth century, professionalization increased with the development of education, law, medicine, and engineering. Examine this development.

In the antebellum era, prizefights lasted:

Steamboats:

Physicians in the early 1800s:

Discuss the unique role Catholicism played in the resistance to immigration.

The various Workingmen's parties wanted:

The Collision of Cultures

England’s Colonies

Colonial Ways of Life

From Colonies to States

The American Revolution, 1776-1783

Strengthening the New Nation

The Early Republic, 1800-1815

Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828

The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840

The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860

Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860

Western Expansion, 1830-1848

The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860

The War of the Union, 1861-1865

The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877

Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860-1900

The New South and the New West, 1865-1900

Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900

Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913

The Progressive Era, 1890-1920

America and the Great War, 1914-1920

A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929

The Reactionary Twenties

The Great Depression, 1929-1939

The Second World War, 1933-1945

The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952

Cold War America, 1950-1959

A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968

Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s

Conservative Revival, 1977-1990

Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present

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