Us History Chapter 9 Quiz

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According to John O’Sullivan, the “manifest destiny” of the United States to occupy North America could be traced to:

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a divine mission.

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America’s first commercial railroad was the:

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

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At the Lowell textile mills:

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the owners established lecture halls, churches, and a worker-edited periodical to occupy the workers’ free time.

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, individualism:

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was rooted in the idea of self-sufficiency.

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For which one of the following did nativists NOT blame immigrants in the 1840s?

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increased Protestantism

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Henry David Thoreau believed that:

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genuine freedom lay within the individual.

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How did the market revolution affect the lives of artisans?

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Gathered in factories, they faced constant supervision and the breakdown of craftsmanship into specialized tasks.

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In an 1837 case involving the Charles River in Massachusetts, Chief Justice Roger Taney:

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declared the community had a legitimate interest in promoting transportation and prosperity.

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

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radical social change would produce equality between men.

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Most of the states that entered the Union in the six years immediately following the War of 1812 were located:

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west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Samuel Slater:

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established America’s first factory.

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Squatters:

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set up farms on unoccupied land.

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The “American System of manufactures”:

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relied on the mass production of interchangeable parts.

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The “German triangle” in the mid-nineteenth century referred to:

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Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Milwaukee—cities with large German populations.

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The American railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century:

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stimulated the coal-mining industry.

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The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in:

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transportation and communication.

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The cult of domesticity:

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led to a decline in birthrates.

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

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New York

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The Erie Canal:

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was far longer than any other canal in the United States at that time.

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The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was:

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textiles.

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The majority of the nearly 4 million immigrants that entered the United States between 1840 and 1860 were from:

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Germany and Ireland.

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

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focus her energies on the home and children.

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The transcendentalist movement:

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emphasized individual judgment, not tradition.

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

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slaves.

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What city was known as “porkopolis” because of its slaughterhouses that butchered and processed hundreds of thousands of pigs each year?

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Cincinnati

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

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Steam power meant factories no longer had to be near waterfalls and rapids to generate the power.

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What helped to encourage Richard Allen to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church?

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He was forcibly removed from praying at the altar rail at his former place of worship.

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

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canals and steamboats

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

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Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive.

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

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cotton

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What was the significance of Robert Fulton?

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His work in designing steamboats made upstream commerce possible.

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Which denomination enjoyed the largest membership in the United States by the 1840s?

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Methodist

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Which one of the following is NOT an example of the significance of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin?

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The completion of the Erie Canal allowed the transportation of thousands of pounds of cotton per day

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Which one of the following was NOT a way in which westward movement affected the South?

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The South had to develop a highly effective railroad system to transport goods from west to east.

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Women who worked at the Lowell mills:

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lived in closely supervised boardinghouses.