Question 1

The \"American system of manufactures\":

Accepted Answer

was the mass production of interchangeable parts into rapidly built, standardized products.

Question 2

\"Slave coffles . . . became a common sight.\" Define \"coffles.\"

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groups chained to one another

Question 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of Walden.

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False

Question 4

Workingmen formed political parties in the late 1820s and among the goals of these ephemeral political parties were free public education, an end to imprisonment for debt, and a ten-hour workday.

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True

Question 5

Which was not an innovation associated with the market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century?

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Telephones

Question 6

In the period between 1820 and 1840, what two states combined saw the biggest spread (increase) in cotton cultivation?

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Louisiana and Mississippi

Question 7

Cotton gin was a beverage invented by Eli Whitney.

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False

Question 8

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, freedom was:

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an open-ended process of self-realization by which individuals could remake themselves.

Question 9

Which of the following was not a key difference between traditional artisan production and the new factory system?

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Artisans generally labored under closer supervision than did factory workers.

Question 10

Which of the following was not a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution?

Accepted Answer

America\'s failure to attract many newcomers from Europe

Question 11

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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work begun on National Road; steamboat introduced on Mississippi River; work begun on Erie Canal; work begun on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Question 12

The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution.

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False

Question 13

Which of the following was not a significant trend in American thought during the market revolution?

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a belief that one\'s spiritual salvation was purely a matter of chance

Question 14

With the market revolution, the artisanal workshop gave way to relentless pressure for greater output and lower wages.

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True

Question 15

Millions of Americans\' lives were improved by the nineteenth-century market revolution.

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True

Question 16

The distribution of wealth was fairly even in the nineteenth-century United States.

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False

Question 17

Industrialization, a key element in the dynamic and expansive growth of the market economy, was most notable in the northeastern United States.

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True

Question 18

Which was not an element of the Second Great Awakening?

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It emphasized predestination and the importance of each soul as being in the hands of an angry God.

Question 19

What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?

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cotton gin

Question 20

Eli Whitney\'s invention of the cotton gin improved the lives of millions of African-Americans.

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False

Question 21

The rise of the corporation was crucial to the success of the market economy.

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True

Question 22

The Second Great Awakening was:

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popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.

Question 23

America\'s early factories drew largely upon the labor of women and children.

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True

Question 24

Democracy in America was written by:

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Alexis de Tocqueville.

Question 25

Which of the following destroyed Henry David Thoreau\'s commune with nature?

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a train

Question 26

In the nineteenth century, a married woman could not legally sign independent contracts; she could not sue someone in court in her own name; and not until after the Civil War could she, not her husband, control the wages she earned.

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True

Question 27

There was a rapid decline in the birthrate during the course of the nineteenth century, such that from an average of seven children per family, by 1900 women on average had four children.

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True

Question 28

The 1825 completion of the 363-mile Erie Canal connected:

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the Great Lakes with New York City.

Question 29

In the nineteenth century, barred from schools and other facilities, free black Americans constructed their own institutional life, centered on churches, educational, and mutual aid societies.

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True

Question 30

The market revolution in the nineteenth-century United States produced dynamic and expansive growth in the nation\'s output and in trade, and a rising standard of living for millions of Americans.

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True

Question 31

In Commonwealth v. Hunt, Massachusetts chief justice Lemuel Shaw decreed that there was nothing inherently illegal in workers organizing a union or a strike.

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False

Question 32

Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money.

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True

Question 33

From the 1830s to the 1850s, Americans were largely a sedentary lot who lived out their lives in the locale in which they were born.

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False

Question 34

Early New England textile mills relied largely on the labor of:

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women and children.

Question 35

American industrialization first took off in:

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New England.

Question 36

By the 1840s, most working people outside the South toiled in large factories.

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False

Question 37

Free blacks were largely denied access to the material opportunities generated by the market revolution.

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True

Question 38

The common nineteenth-century view was that men are naturally aggressive, rational, and domineering, while women are naturally nurturing, selfless, and ruled by emotions.

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True

Question 39

Some women served as preachers in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

Which of the following was not a feature of westward expansion during the early to mid-1800s?

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Cities had no significant presence in the expanding West.

Question 41

America\'s first successful factory was established in 1790 by:

Accepted Answer

Samuel Slater at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Question 42

What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?

Accepted Answer

stimulated its growth

Question 43

Which was not an aspect of women\'s changing role in the context of the expansive and dynamic growth of the market economy in nineteenth-century America?

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In the new, competitive, capitalist marketplace, women were to grow increasingly into captains of industry, becoming leaders of some of the nation\'s most important industries.

Question 44

\"Manifest destiny\" was:

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the belief that the United States had a God-given mission to expand westward.

Question 45

Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following?

Accepted Answer

a transcendentalist

Question 46

As a consequence of the expansive growth in the U.S. economy associated with the market revolution, skilled free black workers found their status and incomes rising.

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False

Question 47

During the first half of the 1800s, the U.S. economy experienced explosive growth in output and trade, and a rise in the standard of living for millions of Americans. This dynamic and expansive growth was, in part, a consequence of the rise of factories, a transportation revolution via canal and rail, a communications revolution spurred by invention of the telegraph, increasing agricultural yields and the mechanization of farm equipment, a rising prosperity for financial institutions, and larger cities. Historians call this new economy:

Accepted Answer

the market revolution or market economy.

Question 48

Chicago\'s spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to:

Accepted Answer

railroads.

Question 49

The largest group of immigrants to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s came from Ireland, which was then in the throes of the great potato famine.

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True

Question 50

With the Second Great Awakening, American Christianity became more hierarchical and out of touch with the common folk.

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False

Question 51

Of the following projects, New York City\'s commercial ascent was owed chiefly to:

Accepted Answer

the Erie Canal.

Question 52

In Thoreau\'s view, the market revolution degraded both people\'s values and the natural environment.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 53

Expanding networks of toll roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads were essential to the takeoff of the market revolution.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 54

Which of the following was not an innate characteristic of women, according to the \"cult of domesticity\"?

Accepted Answer

analytical insight

Question 55

The market revolution swept over the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 56

During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 57

For the expanding middle class, it became a badge of respectability for wives to remain at home.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 58

he court case in which it was held that workers\' unions are not illegal was:

Accepted Answer

Commonwealth v. Hunt.

Question 59

Which was not an attribute of Alexis de Tocqueville\'s vision of democracy?

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All Americans over age 21 ought to, Tocqueville wrote, have the right to vote.

Question 60

Which of the following did Andrew Jackson believe was associated with the outcome of the election of 1824?

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a corrupt bargain

Question 61

Giving a political office to someone based on party service is called:

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the spoils system.

Question 62

A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that:

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European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.

Question 63

Andrew Jackson appealed to the changing voting pool because he represented those that came from generations of wealth and supported a strong federal government-controlled nation.

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False

Question 64

Andrew Jackson and his supporters publicly argued that the Presidential Election of 1824 had been determined in his favor by a \"corrupt bargain\" between some of the participants.

Accepted Answer

False

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