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The young single women who worked under the Waltham system A) formed a permanent, professional workforce B) drank, kept late hours, and generally had bad reputations C) supported their parents and paid for the college educations of their brothers D) organized unions that violently resisted their exploitation E) saved some of their money for dowries and spent some on clothes and books

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E

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Thomas Jefferson saw the ideal American society as one whose economy was dominated by A) master craftsmen B) wage laborers C) seaport merchants D) rural farmers E) an urban working class

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D

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The federal census of 1790 found that more than ___ of Americans lived in rural areas. A) 50 percent B) 60 percent C) 70 percent D) 80 percent E) 90 percent

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E

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Which of the following was true of American cities in 1790? A) there were fifty cities with populations exceeding 10,000 B) the largest cities were all seaports C) international commerce has yet to affect the composition and location of the largest cities D) only twenty percent of the nation's population lived in cities E) a city was defined as having at least 10,000 people

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B

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In 1815 the largest American city was A) Philadelphia B) Baltimore C) Newark D) New York City E) Boston

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D

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After 1790, the responsibilities for running American farm households A) fell more exclusively on women B) decreased C) were mostly given to the older children D) were turned over to servants E) were equally shared by all family members

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A

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Which of the following was not an agricultural improvement of the mid-1800s? A) horse-powered threshing machines B) cast-iron plows C) the windmill D) hand-cranked fanning machines E) the grain cradle

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C

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The Waltham, or Lowell, system of textile manufacturing primarily employed A) entire families B) immigrants C) young men D) children E) young women

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E

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Most canals built in the 1830s were built and financed by A) state governments B) private corporations C) foreign investors D) the federal government E) association of farmers

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A

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The first power-driven spinning mill in the United States was built by ___ in Pawtucket, Rhode Island A) Richard Arkwright B) Nathaniel Appleton C) Francis Cabot Lowell D) Samuel Slater E) Thomas Edison

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D

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Between 1790 and 1850, the southern planters became more dependent on A) France B) Britain C) Spain D) Mexico E) Portugal

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B

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The leader of the aborted slave rebellion in South Carolina in 1822 was A) Nat Turner B) Gabriel C) Denmark Vesey D) Frederick Douglas E) none of the above

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C

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Southern Slaves A) had no distinct culture B) essentially imitated white culture C) created their own culture, which included religious piety and African-style songs and folk D) were brutalized to the extent that they became irresponsible and childlike E) never openly resisted slavery

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C

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The whipping of slaves was A) regulated by law B) a common form of punishment C) reserved for runaways and thieves D) unheard of outside of the deep south E) banned after 1848

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B

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All of the following statements are true except A) cotton requires a long growing season B) cotton ripens evenly C) cotton requires a lot of attention D) cotton has a long harvest season E) cotton was well suited to slave labor

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B

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The new, northern middle class of the early nineteenth century would best be described as A) country merchants, master craftsmen, and market oriented farmers B) mill workers, journeymen, and wage-laborers C) tenant farmers, day laborers, and wage-laborers D) factory workers and small farmers E) plantation owners

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A

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The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was A) Harriet Beecher Stowe B) Lydia Maria Child C) Catherine Beecher D) Sarah Josepha Hale E) Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A

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The founder of Mormonism, born in upstate New York in the early nineteenth century, was A) Brigham Young B) William Miller C) Mathias D) Joseph Smith E) Sylvester Graham

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D

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White southerners justified the institution of slavery with each of the following religious arguments except A) Jesus never criticized slavery B) slaves were the descendants of Ham and deserves enslavement C) slavery had given African Americans Christianity D) the Epistles of Paul urges slaves to obey their masters E) slavery was a gift to God

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E

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The most successful sects in the early nineteenth century were the A) Episcopalians and Baptists B) Baptists and Methodists C) Lutherans and Episcopalians D) Methodists and Episcopalians E) Baptists and Lutherans

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B

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Between 1790 and 1820, voting rights A) increasingly excluded most artisans and laborers B) remained strongly tied to property and ownership C) increased in New England but declined in the South D) was never limited to just free white men E) became easier and greatly expanded for white men

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E

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Nineteenth-century minstrel shows A) were traveling productions in which white men in "black face" imitated African-American songs and dances B) were most popular with female audiences C) were the first theatrical entertainments to include black performers as regular troupe members D) were popular only in the large seaport cities of the Northeast E) were popular only in the south

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A

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Which of the following was not a cause of the Panic of 1819 A) recovery of European agriculture in the early nineteenth century B) overexpansion of credit by American bankers C) underproduction by American farmers D) the hoarding of available specie by European nations E) revolution and war had cut off the supply of precious metals from Peru and Mexico

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C

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The winner of the crowded presidential election of 1824 was A) Henry Clay B) Andrew Jackson C) John Quincy Adams D) William Crawford E) James Monroe

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C

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The "corrupt Bargain" of 1824 refers to the deal made between which two statesmen? A) Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren B) John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson C) John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay D) Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren E) James Monroe and John Quincy Adams

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B

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The author of the Monroe Doctrine was A) James Monroe B) John Quincy Adams C) Martin Van Buren D) Henry Clay E) Andrew Jackson

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B

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The Tariff of 1828 was known throughout the South as the Tariff of A) horror B) hope C) abominations D) dependence E) absurdity

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C

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The treaty that acquired Florida for the United States was the A) Rush-Bagot Treaty B) British-American Convention C) Adams-Onis Treaty D) Treaty of Paris E) Treaty of Florida

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C

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In the Missouri Compromise A) slavery was outlawed in the Louisiana territory B) the morality of slavery was not addressed C) Missouri was admitted to the union as a free state D) citizens could decide for themselves whether to permit slavery E) the entry of Maine to the union was delayed five years

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B

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The phrase "the spoils system" referred to A) corrupt politicians who spoiled the public image of national office holders B) the government agency set up to regulate garbage collection and disposal C) Andrew Jackson's use of presidential appointive powers to reward his supporters with government jobs D) Martin Van Buren's efforts to ruin the relationship between Jackson and John C Calhoun E) the bargain made between Clay and Adams in the election of 1824

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C

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The free state admitted to the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise was A) Illinois B) Iowa C) Maine D) Ohio E) Missouri

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C

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Who was the most interested in creating a public school system A) William Lloyd Garrison B) Lydia Maria Child C) Dorothea Dix D) Horace Mann E) Alexander Hamilton

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D

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The leading advocate of humane treatment of the insane was A) Dorothea Dix B) Lydia Maria Child C) Sarah Josepha Hale D) Caroline Kirkland E) Andrew Jackson

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A

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One of the leading crusaders against the use of alcohol was A) Horace Mann B) Lyman Beecher C) Stephen Douglas D) Lydia Maria Child E) Andrew Jackson

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B

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Support for abolitionists came from which of the following regions? A) western New York B) southern New England C) northern Ohio D) northeastern cities E) all of the above

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D

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The primary goal of the American Anti-Slavery Society was A) the gradual abolition of slavery B) the immediate emancipation of the slaves C) the recolonization of slaves to Africa D) the emancipation of some slaves, for appearances E) reconciliation between the North and South

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B

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Which of the following was not a demand of women's rights reformers in the 1840s? A) better access for women to property B) more restrictive divorce laws C) wages for their own labor D) custody of their children in cases of divorce E) the right to vote

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B

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The first Women's Rights Convention (1848) was held in A) Philadelphia B) Seneca Falls C) Boston D) Charleston E) New York City

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B

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The term manifest destiny refers to the belief that A) providence had destined the American continent to be dominated for the United States B) war between the United States and Mexico was inevitable C) American Indians were to be driven from the continent D) the US would defeat the British and become the leading world power E) all of the above

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A

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The religious prophet and founder of the Mormons was A) Joseph Smith B) John O'Sullivan C) Robert Walker D) Jonathan Edwards E) William Miller

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A

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The Mexican commander who granted Texas independence from Mexico was A) Santa Anna B) Narciso Lopez C) William Walker D) General Huerta E) General Lopez

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A

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The Mexican War was least popular in which of the following regions? A) Southwest B) New England C) Southeast D) Midwest E) Great Lakes region

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B

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The congressional act that opposed the extension of slavery into any territory ceded by Mexico was the A) Ostend Manifesto B) Popular Sovereignty Act C) Crittenden Compromise D) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo E) Wilmot Proviso

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E

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In the 1840s, the United States acquired all of the following states except A) California B) Alaska C) Oregon D) New Mexico E) Utah

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B

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