Question 1

In the first half of the nineteenth century,what city became known as "Porkopolis"?

Accepted Answer

A)  New York. 
B)  Boston. 
C)  St.Louis. 
D)  Chicago. 
E)  Cincinnati. 
A)  New York. 
B)  Boston. 
C)  St.Louis. 
D)  Chicago. 
E)  Cincinnati.

Question 2

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 3

From Abraham Lincoln's life,which would be an example from the old economy when compared to the newly transformed market economy?

Accepted Answer

A)  Lincoln working as a lawyer for the Illinois Central Railroad. 
B)  Lincoln as a state legislator promoting river transportation. 
C)  Lincoln getting paid in cash and then purchasing clothing from a store. 
D)  Lincoln settling family debt by doing labor for the neighbor. 
E)  Lincoln's father taking livestock to a faraway marketplace. 
A)  Lincoln working as a lawyer for the Illinois Central Railroad. 
B)  Lincoln as a state legislator promoting river transportation. 
C)  Lincoln getting paid in cash and then purchasing clothing from a store. 
D)  Lincoln settling family debt by doing labor for the neighbor. 
E)  Lincoln's father taking livestock to a faraway marketplace.

Question 4

What was a result of the Second Great Awakening?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Second Great Awakening popularized Deism. 
B)  Charles Grandison Finney was pressured to leave the eastern United States. 
C)  The Second Great Awakening complemented the idea of self-reliance. 
D)  The Second Great Awakening led to the Baptists losing a majority of their parishioners,who switched to Catholicism. 
E)  The market revolution did not aid revivalist ministers. 
A)  The Second Great Awakening popularized Deism. 
B)  Charles Grandison Finney was pressured to leave the eastern United States. 
C)  The Second Great Awakening complemented the idea of self-reliance. 
D)  The Second Great Awakening led to the Baptists losing a majority of their parishioners,who switched to Catholicism. 
E)  The market revolution did not aid revivalist ministers.

Question 5

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Commonwealth v.Hunt

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 6

The idea of the United States as a refuge for those seeking economic opportunity or as an escape from oppression has always coexisted with suspicion of and hostility to foreign newcomers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Because an English law forbade the export of machinery blueprints,Samuel Slater memorized the plans for the power-driven spinning jenny before immigrating to America.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

The market revolution produced a new middle class.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Samuel Slater:

Accepted Answer

A)  developed stone-crushing technology useful for road building. 
B)  established America's first factory. 
C)  invented the cotton gin. 
D)  established the Erie Canal. 
E)  was a steamboat innovator. 
A)  developed stone-crushing technology useful for road building. 
B)  established America's first factory. 
C)  invented the cotton gin. 
D)  established the Erie Canal. 
E)  was a steamboat innovator.

Question 10

Which problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?

Accepted Answer

A)  Whitney figured out how to remove the cotton-destroying boll weevil and thereby save the cotton crop. 
B)  Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task,but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive. 
C)  Processing cotton required too many different pieces of equipment,but Whitney figured out how to change the equipment more easily and quickly,saving time and money. 
D)  Planting the cotton took too many hours to make its growth very profitable,but Whitney enabled planters to use a machine to speed the planting. 
E)  The production of southern whiskey required the use of cotton in purifying the liquor,but the cotton absorbed too much liquid; Whitney's machine changed that. 
A)  Whitney figured out how to remove the cotton-destroying boll weevil and thereby save the cotton crop. 
B)  Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task,but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive. 
C)  Processing cotton required too many different pieces of equipment,but Whitney figured out how to change the equipment more easily and quickly,saving time and money. 
D)  Planting the cotton took too many hours to make its growth very profitable,but Whitney enabled planters to use a machine to speed the planting. 
E)  The production of southern whiskey required the use of cotton in purifying the liquor,but the cotton absorbed too much liquid; Whitney's machine changed that.

Question 11

During the first half of the nineteenth century,free black Americans:

Accepted Answer

A)  could not,under federal law,obtain public land. 
B)  found,as whites did,that the West offered the best opportunities for economic advancement. 
C)  rose in economic status,but more slowly than whites. 
D)  joined with white artisans in biracial unions that successfully struck for higher wages. 
E)  formed predominantly upper-middle-class communities in the North. 
A)  could not,under federal law,obtain public land. 
B)  found,as whites did,that the West offered the best opportunities for economic advancement. 
C)  rose in economic status,but more slowly than whites. 
D)  joined with white artisans in biracial unions that successfully struck for higher wages. 
E)  formed predominantly upper-middle-class communities in the North.

Question 12

In response to the market revolution:

Accepted Answer

A)  the legal system worked with local governments to find better ways to regulate entrepreneurs. 
B)  Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that legislatures could not alter or rescind charters and contracts that previous legislatures had created. 
C)  local judges protected businessmen from paying property damages associated with factory construction and from workers seeking to unionize. 
D)  Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw held in Commonwealth v.Hunt that workers had no right to organize. 
E)  corporations proved less able to raise capital than chartered companies did. 
A)  the legal system worked with local governments to find better ways to regulate entrepreneurs. 
B)  Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that legislatures could not alter or rescind charters and contracts that previous legislatures had created. 
C)  local judges protected businessmen from paying property damages associated with factory construction and from workers seeking to unionize. 
D)  Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw held in Commonwealth v.Hunt that workers had no right to organize. 
E)  corporations proved less able to raise capital than chartered companies did.

Question 13

In today's society,who best resembles Henry David Thoreau's ideas from his stay at Walden?

Accepted Answer

A)  A pro-war demonstrator. 
B)  A hermit growing an organic garden. 
C)  An Amish community raising a barn. 
D)  A hippie-like commune that makes its own clothes. 
E)  A corporate biologist conducting research in nature. 
A)  A pro-war demonstrator. 
B)  A hermit growing an organic garden. 
C)  An Amish community raising a barn. 
D)  A hippie-like commune that makes its own clothes. 
E)  A corporate biologist conducting research in nature.

Question 14

The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to:

Accepted Answer

A)  pursue a college education. 
B)  take a job outside the home to supplement the family's disposable income. 
C)  have as large a family as possible. 
D)  focus her energies on the home and children. 
E)  produce the daily foodstuffs and necessities that her household required. 
A)  pursue a college education. 
B)  take a job outside the home to supplement the family's disposable income. 
C)  have as large a family as possible. 
D)  focus her energies on the home and children. 
E)  produce the daily foodstuffs and necessities that her household required.

Question 15

The Erie Canal:

Accepted Answer

A)  was far longer than any other canal in the United States at that time. 
B)  attracted an influx of farmers migrating from Virginia and the Carolinas to the Northwest. 
C)  was strongly opposed by residents of Buffalo and Rochester,who feared their cities would lose business. 
D)  was championed by Pennsylvania governor William Findlay. 
E)  proved economically unviable and was abandoned within a decade of its opening. 
A)  was far longer than any other canal in the United States at that time. 
B)  attracted an influx of farmers migrating from Virginia and the Carolinas to the Northwest. 
C)  was strongly opposed by residents of Buffalo and Rochester,who feared their cities would lose business. 
D)  was championed by Pennsylvania governor William Findlay. 
E)  proved economically unviable and was abandoned within a decade of its opening.

Question 16

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Cyrus McCormick

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 17

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 18

The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest?

Accepted Answer

A)  Baltimore. 
B)  Philadelphia. 
C)  Boston. 
D)  New York. 
E)  Chicago. 
A)  Baltimore. 
B)  Philadelphia. 
C)  Boston. 
D)  New York. 
E)  Chicago.

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

In the first half of the nineteenth century,what city became known as "Porkopolis"?

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

From Abraham Lincoln's life,which would be an example from the old economy when compared to the newly transformed market economy?

What was a result of the Second Great Awakening?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Commonwealth v.Hunt

The idea of the United States as a refuge for those seeking economic opportunity or as an escape from oppression has always coexisted with suspicion of and hostility to foreign newcomers.

Because an English law forbade the export of machinery blueprints,Samuel Slater memorized the plans for the power-driven spinning jenny before immigrating to America.

The market revolution produced a new middle class.

Samuel Slater:

Which problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?

During the first half of the nineteenth century,free black Americans:

In response to the market revolution:

In today's society,who best resembles Henry David Thoreau's ideas from his stay at Walden?

The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to:

The Erie Canal:

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Cyrus McCormick

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest?

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

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

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

In the first half of the nineteenth century,what city became known as "Porkopolis"?

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

From Abraham Lincoln's life,which would be an example from the old economy when compared to the newly transformed market economy?

What was a result of the Second Great Awakening?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Commonwealth v.Hunt

The idea of the United States as a refuge for those seeking economic opportunity or as an escape from oppression has always coexisted with suspicion of and hostility to foreign newcomers.

Because an English law forbade the export of machinery blueprints,Samuel Slater memorized the plans for the power-driven spinning jenny before immigrating to America.

The market revolution produced a new middle class.

Samuel Slater:

Which problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?

During the first half of the nineteenth century,free black Americans:

In response to the market revolution:

In today's society,who best resembles Henry David Thoreau's ideas from his stay at Walden?

The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to:

The Erie Canal:

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Cyrus McCormick

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest?

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

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

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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