Question 1

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Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: 
  
Detroit, Michigan

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Question 2

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Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: 
  
Savannah, Georgia

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Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
James Fenimore Cooper

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Question 4

What was one of the results of rising urban land values in the early nineteenth-century American city?

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A)  Many row houses were subdivided and occupied by many families. 
B)  Homeownership became more common. 
C)  Cities expanded by annexing additional land. 
D)  Fewer people occupied each row house. 
E)  Tenements were replaced with lavish mansions.

Question 5

Isaac Singer transformed American society by

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A)  designing a practical sanitation system that enabled cities to clean up their streets. 
B)  patenting a practical sewing machine that allowed for the mass production of textiles. 
C)  organizing inventors into specific groups which allowed them to work on projects together. 
D)  introducing science into farms and showed how healthier animals and larger crop yields could be produced. 
E)  persuading Congress to create the National Academy of Sciences.

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Railroad expansion

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Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
James Gordon Bennett and the penny press

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Question 8

How did Americans try to express national distinctiveness in literature and art?

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Question 9

Who was the most popular dramatist in antebellum America?

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A)  Edwin Forrest 
B)  William Shakespeare 
C)  Stephen Foster 
D)  James Fenimore Cooper 
E)  Lydia Sigourney

Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Romanticism

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Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Phrenology

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Question 12

Why did movements for rural cemeteries and urban parks develop during the antebellum period?

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A)  There was a fear that sprawling urban growth was destroying the spiritual healing that nature provided. 
B)  There was a desire to meet the working-class demand for a quiet place to relax. 
C)  There was a desire to demonstrate that cities could support themselves. 
D)  There was a hope of taming the undeveloped areas that still remained within city borders. 
E)  There was a need to find a use for undeveloped city land.

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
New York Stock Exchange

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Question 14

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Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: 
  
Charleston, South Carolina

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Question 15

What was the "American system of manufacturing"? Why did it intrigue Europeans? What were its advantages?

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Question 16

What were Thoreau's views on the ideal relationship between Nature and civilization, and between Nature and the individual? What sorts of "improvements" in his lifetime do you think were shaping his ideas?

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Question 17

Analyze American entertainment before 1860. What were the principal forms of entertainment, and how did they reflect American stereotypes and prejudices?

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Question 18

Examine changes in publishing in before 1860. How did these changes influence what types of reading materials were produced? How did they change the quality of what was produced? Did the changes affect readership? Explain.

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Question 19

How did technology transform the daily lives of middle-class Americans between 1840 and 1860?

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Question 20

Which of these did physicians attribute to the cause and spread of epidemic diseases in the mid-nineteenth century?

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A)  Intercontinental travel. 
B)  Gases that arose from rotten vegetables or dead animals. 
C)  Bacteria. 
D)  Sinfulness. 
E)  All of these choices

Exam 11: Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: Detroit, Michigan

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: Savannah, Georgia

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. James Fenimore Cooper

What was one of the results of rising urban land values in the early nineteenth-century American city?

Isaac Singer transformed American society by

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Railroad expansion

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. James Gordon Bennett and the penny press

How did Americans try to express national distinctiveness in literature and art?

Who was the most popular dramatist in antebellum America?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Romanticism

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Phrenology

Why did movements for rural cemeteries and urban parks develop during the antebellum period?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. New York Stock Exchange

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: Charleston, South Carolina

What was the "American system of manufacturing"? Why did it intrigue Europeans? What were its advantages?

What were Thoreau's views on the ideal relationship between Nature and civilization, and between Nature and the individual? What sorts of "improvements" in his lifetime do you think were shaping his ideas?

Analyze American entertainment before 1860. What were the principal forms of entertainment, and how did they reflect American stereotypes and prejudices?

Examine changes in publishing in before 1860. How did these changes influence what types of reading materials were produced? How did they change the quality of what was produced? Did the changes affect readership? Explain.

How did technology transform the daily lives of middle-class Americans between 1840 and 1860?

Which of these did physicians attribute to the cause and spread of epidemic diseases in the mid-nineteenth century?