Question 1

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

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 2

How did the market revolution affect western farming?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cyrus McCormick's reaper slowed down the process of harvesting wheat. 
B)  Farmers in the Old Northwest used slave labor to expand their production. 
C)  Farmers in the West found markets in the East for their crops and livestock. 
D)  Farms in the eastern United States continued to grow more corn than in the West. 
E)  John Deere's steel plow was mass-produced after the Civil War in 1865. 
A)  Cyrus McCormick's reaper slowed down the process of harvesting wheat. 
B)  Farmers in the Old Northwest used slave labor to expand their production. 
C)  Farmers in the West found markets in the East for their crops and livestock. 
D)  Farms in the eastern United States continued to grow more corn than in the West. 
E)  John Deere's steel plow was mass-produced after the Civil War in 1865.

Question 3

The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in transportation and communication.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Such places generally had cheaper labor (usually consisting of African-Americans)than existed in the earlier,highly unionized factory towns such as Lowell and Pawtucket. 
B)  Under Henry Clay's American System,federal and state governments subsidized factories in those locations. 
C)  Steam power meant factories no longer had to be near waterfalls and rapids to generate the power. 
D)  Factory owners were attracted by the highly skilled labor pool of German immigrants who settled in those areas. 
E)  The U.S.Supreme Court's decision in Gibbons v.Ogden removed obstacles to the placement of factories in densely populated areas. 
A)  Such places generally had cheaper labor (usually consisting of African-Americans)than existed in the earlier,highly unionized factory towns such as Lowell and Pawtucket. 
B)  Under Henry Clay's American System,federal and state governments subsidized factories in those locations. 
C)  Steam power meant factories no longer had to be near waterfalls and rapids to generate the power. 
D)  Factory owners were attracted by the highly skilled labor pool of German immigrants who settled in those areas. 
E)  The U.S.Supreme Court's decision in Gibbons v.Ogden removed obstacles to the placement of factories in densely populated areas.

Question 5

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 6

MATCHING
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

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-manifest destiny

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 8

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

John Jacob Astor,who seemed to exemplify the "self-made man":

Accepted Answer

A)  turned out to be a fraud,for it was discovered he counterfeited much of his fortune. 
B)  used his great wealth to finance the North during the Civil War. 
C)  made huge profits from distributing the machines built by Thomas Rodgers. 
D)  began his economic ascent through the purchase of Philadelphia real estate. 
E)  became wealthy by trading goods between the United States and China. 
A)  turned out to be a fraud,for it was discovered he counterfeited much of his fortune. 
B)  used his great wealth to finance the North during the Civil War. 
C)  made huge profits from distributing the machines built by Thomas Rodgers. 
D)  began his economic ascent through the purchase of Philadelphia real estate. 
E)  became wealthy by trading goods between the United States and China.

Question 10

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Samuel Slater

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 11

Besides religious phrases,what did Charles Grandison Finney emphasize in his sermons?

Accepted Answer

A)  People needed to improve themselves economically. 
B)  People had to make choices in their lives similar to making political decisions. 
C)  Themes from classical Greek literature. 
D)  People needed to make strategic moves in their lives,like a military commander. 
E)  They needed to convert Native Americans. 
A)  People needed to improve themselves economically. 
B)  People had to make choices in their lives similar to making political decisions. 
C)  Themes from classical Greek literature. 
D)  People needed to make strategic moves in their lives,like a military commander. 
E)  They needed to convert Native Americans.

Question 12

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-cult of domesticity

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and give the historical significance of...

Question 13

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.

Question 14

Discuss the impact of the market revolution on women and African-Americans (both free and slave).

Accepted Answer

The market revolution had a significant

Question 15

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 16

What was the biggest motivating factor in moving westward in the 1820s and 1830s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Land was cheaper. 
B)  Gold existed just beyond the Appalachian Mountains. 
C)  Slaves could escape to safe havens. 
D)  Cotton could be grown in Ohio and Indiana. 
E)  People were escaping religious persecution. 
A)  Land was cheaper. 
B)  Gold existed just beyond the Appalachian Mountains. 
C)  Slaves could escape to safe havens. 
D)  Cotton could be grown in Ohio and Indiana. 
E)  People were escaping religious persecution.

Question 17

What came to be redefined as a personal moral quality associated more and more closely with women?

Accepted Answer

A)  Freedom. 
B)  Liberty. 
C)  Virtue. 
D)  Family. 
E)  Temperance. 
A)  Freedom. 
B)  Liberty. 
C)  Virtue. 
D)  Family. 
E)  Temperance.

Question 18

What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Tobacco. 
B)  Coal. 
C)  Timber. 
D)  Cotton. 
E)  Wheat. 
A)  Tobacco. 
B)  Coal. 
C)  Timber. 
D)  Cotton. 
E)  Wheat.

Question 19

Which statement is true about the difference between farming in the Old Northwest and the Northeast?

Accepted Answer

A)  Farming in the Northeast needed slave labor. 
B)  Wheat farming in the Northeast made New York City the flour capital. 
C)  Old Northwest farms depended on the cotton gin. 
D)  Farming was done on a much bigger scale in the Old Northwest. 
E)  Farming in the Old Northwest required slaves. 
A)  Farming in the Northeast needed slave labor. 
B)  Wheat farming in the Northeast made New York City the flour capital. 
C)  Old Northwest farms depended on the cotton gin. 
D)  Farming was done on a much bigger scale in the Old Northwest. 
E)  Farming in the Old Northwest required slaves.

Question 20

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

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

How did the market revolution affect western farming?

The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in transportation and communication.

What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s?

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

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

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -manifest destiny

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

John Jacob Astor,who seemed to exemplify the "self-made man":

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Samuel Slater

Besides religious phrases,what did Charles Grandison Finney emphasize in his sermons?

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -cult of domesticity

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

Discuss the impact of the market revolution on women and African-Americans (both free and slave).

Women who worked at the Lowell mills:

What was the biggest motivating factor in moving westward in the 1820s and 1830s?

What came to be redefined as a personal moral quality associated more and more closely with women?

What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

Which statement is true about the difference between farming in the Old Northwest and the Northeast?

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

A New World

Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

Creating Anglo-america,1660-1750

Slavery,freedom,and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution,1763-1783

the Revolution Within

Founding a Nation,1783-1791

Securing the Republic,1790-1815

Democracy in America,1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

An Age of Reform,1820-1840

A House Divided,1840-1861

A New Birth of Freedom: the Civil War,1861-1865

what is Freedom?”: Reconstruction,1865-1877

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Exam 9: The Market Revolution,1800-1840

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

How did the market revolution affect western farming?

The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in transportation and communication.

What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s?

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

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

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -manifest destiny

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

John Jacob Astor,who seemed to exemplify the "self-made man":

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Samuel Slater

Besides religious phrases,what did Charles Grandison Finney emphasize in his sermons?

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -cult of domesticity

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

Discuss the impact of the market revolution on women and African-Americans (both free and slave).

Women who worked at the Lowell mills:

What was the biggest motivating factor in moving westward in the 1820s and 1830s?

What came to be redefined as a personal moral quality associated more and more closely with women?

What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

Which statement is true about the difference between farming in the Old Northwest and the Northeast?

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

A New World

Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

Creating Anglo-america,1660-1750

Slavery,freedom,and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution,1763-1783

the Revolution Within

Founding a Nation,1783-1791

Securing the Republic,1790-1815

Democracy in America,1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

An Age of Reform,1820-1840

A House Divided,1840-1861

A New Birth of Freedom: the Civil War,1861-1865

what is Freedom?”: Reconstruction,1865-1877

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