US History Exam 4

On what basis did the U.S. government base its claim that the

commonwealth system was consistent with republican ideology?

On what basis did the U.S. government base its claim that the

commonwealth system was consistent with republican ideology?

State support for private businesses contributed to the overall public good.

 African Americans who converted to Christianity during the Second Great Awakening embraced which of the following teachings?

God as the liberator of the Jews.

 Who replaced the Lowell Mill workers when they refused in the 1830s to work until conditions improved?

Irish immigrants

The construction of the Erie Canal had which of the following negative

consequences?

The construction of the canal and its heavy use altered the ecology of the entire region.

Around the 1830s, what new form of manufacturing emerged in America?

The fabrication of metal products.

The Panic of 1819 caused which of the following outcomes

American cotton and wheat prices plummeted over 50%

Which of the following factors contributed to the sharp decline in the

American birthrate from 1790 to 1820?

Fathers’ desire for fewer children in order to ensure the adequacy of their inheritances.

 Which were the two fastest-growing American church denominations

during the early nineteenth century?

Baptists and Methodists.

How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Passing protective tariffs

Which American principle played a critical role in advancing technology in the early days of the American Industrial Revolution?

American ingenuity

Which of the following was one of the ways that wageworkers strove to resist their bosses’ efforts to control their non-work lives in the early to mid-nineteenth century?

They built a robust workers’ culture that preserved their autonomy outside work.

Which of these did elite Americans embrace after the Industrial Revolution in order to set themselves apart from other groups of Americans?

Conspicuous displays of their wealth through clothing and housing.

Which of the following Puritan ideas became a middle-class conviction with a secular twist during industrialization in the early 1800s?

The Protestant work ethic.

Charles Grandison Finney found success as a young revivalist preacher in the 1820s by emphasizing which of the following issues in his sermons?

Promoting the ideas of human reason and free will.

Which concept promoted by the Second Great Awakening reinforced its push for societal reform?

Free moral agency.

The Second Great Awakening deeply influenced American culture and

society by

Promoting the ideas of human reason and free will

Why did a group of prominent citizens found the American Colonization Society in 1817?

They aimed to encourage Southern planters to emancipate their slaves for resettlement in Africa.

Which slaves became free as a result of the Virginia legislature's passage of a manumission act in 1782?

Those whose master chose to free them.

 In which of the following ways did the growth of rural manufacturing affect New Englanders in the early eighteenth century?

farm families became more dependent on market forces beyond their control

On what basis did the U.S. government base its claim that the

commonwealth system consistent with republican ideology?

State support for private businesses contributed to the overall public good

 Which of the following describes the Missouri Compromise, enacted in 1820?

This piece of legislation set a precedent for future states' admission to the Union

Which of the following describes the relationship between social status and wealth in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history?

Americans respected those who raised their status through talent and hard work.

Which of the following statements describes the extent to which parents exercised control over their children's marriages in the United States in 1800?

Because landholdings shrank, parents lost leverage over their children's choices of marital partners.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, American manufacturers' main advantage over the British mills was that they had access to which of the following?

More natural resources.

Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America?

It brought workers together under one roof in a factory.

Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of the

textile industry in the United States?

Using British textile machinery as their model, American textile producers built their mills in New England and ultimately improved on British technology.

Which of these describes the experiences of the young women who

worked in the New England textile mills in the 1820s and 1830s?

They were able to save their wages for later use or to help out their families.

The transformation that occurred as American factories and farms turned out more goods, and merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers, was known as which of the following?

The Market Revolution

Which of the following replaced canals as the primary form of

transportation in the United States in the nineteenth century?

Railroads

Which of these inventions spurred the growth of agriculture in the Midwest in the 1840s?

The steel plow

Through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in affecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early nineteenth-century America?

Temperance

Which of the following describes German immigrants who settled in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s?

Germans were the second largest immigrant group and many settled in the midwestern states.

Which of the following characterizes patterns of immigration into the United States during the 1840s and 1850s?

Most of the Irish who arrived in the United States were poverty-stricken peasants.

Which of the following spurred the Panic of 1819 in the United States?

Reckless practices pursued by shady state-chartered banks.

Which of the following objections to the system of state-sponsored

mercantilism emerged in the United States by 1820?

It violated the equal rights of citizens and lessened the power of the government

What was the net effect of republican marriage patterns on the institution of marriage in early nineteenth-century America

Young wives could no longer rely on their parents or emotional or financial support and became more dependent on their husbands.  

Society's notion of women as republican wives and mothers was based on which of the following ideas about women?

They were uniquely qualified to educate and nurture the spirit 

Why did the emancipation of slaves proceed very slowly in the northern states during and after the Revolution?

The northern states gave priority to slaveholders property rights so that emancipation often was spaced out over several slave generations. 

What was the Second Great Awakening that took place in the United

States in the nineteenth century?

A long-lasting religious revival that made the United States a genuinely religious society.

In which of the following ways did evangelical religions in the South evolve during the first decades of the nineteenth century?

They began by preaching spiritual equality but gradually adopted a message that justified white patriarchal authority