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The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called
[A] nativism.
[B] rugged individualism.
[C] Unitarianism.
[D] the cult of domesticity.
[E] patriotism.
A: Nativism
The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed
[A] on southern plantations.
[B] in rapidly growing Chicago.
[C] in coal-mining regions.
[D] with textile mills.
[E] with shipbuilding.
D: With textile mills
The early factory system distributed its benefits
[A] to overseas investors.
[B] mostly to the owners.
[C] primarily in the South.
[D] evenly to all.
[E] to workers represented by unions.
B: Mostly to owners
10. Match each individual below with the correct invention.
___ A. Samuel F. B. Morse
___ B. Cyrus McCormick
___ C. Cyrus Field
___ D. Robert Fulton
1. telegraph
2. mower-reaper
3. steamboat
Morse: telegram
McCormick: Mower-reaper
Fulton: steamboat
The “cult of domesticity”
[A] gave women more opportunity to seek employment outside the home.
[B] restricted women’s moral influence on the family.
[C] glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers.
[D] resulted in more pregnancies for women.
[E] was especially strong among rural women.
C: glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers
In the new continental economy, each region specialized in a particular economic activity: the South __________ for export; the West grew grains and livestock to feed __________; and the East __________ for the other two regions.
[A] raised grain, southern slaves, processed meat
[B] grew cotton, eastern factory workers, made machines and textiles
[C] raised grain, eastern factory workers, made furniture and tools
[D] processed meat, southern slaves, raised grain
[E] grew cotton, southern slaves, made machines and textiles
B: Grew cotton, eastern factory workers, made furniture and tools
As a result of the transportation revolution,
[A] division of labor became a thing of the past.
[B] New Orleans became an even more important port.
[C] each region in the nation specialized in a particular type of economic activity.
[D] self-sufficiency became easier to achieve for American families.
[E] the Midwest became the first industrialized region.
C: Each region in the nation specialized in a particular type of economic activity
A major economic consequence of the transportation and marketing revolutions was
[A] the declining significance of American agriculture.
[B] a stabilization of the work force in industrial cities.
[C] the growing realization of the “rags-to-riches” American dream.
[D] a lessening of the gap between great wealth and poverty.
[E] a steady improvement in average wages and standards of living.
E: A steady improvement in average wages and standards of living
By 1850, organized religion in America
[A] retained the rigor of colonial religion.
[B] had lost some of its austere (strict) Calvinist rigor.
[C] had grown more conservative.
[D] was ignored by three-fourths of the people.
[E] had become tied to the upper classes.
B: had lost some of its austere Calvinist rigor
All the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it
[A] resulted in the conversion of countless souls.
[B] strengthened democratic denominations like the Baptists and Methodists.
[C] was not as large as the First Great Awakening.
[D] encouraged a variety of humanitarian reforms.
[E] was a reaction against the growing liberalism in religion.
E: was a reaction against the growing liberalism in religion
An early-nineteenth-century religious rationalist sect devoted to the rule of reason and free will was the
[A] Roman Catholics.
[B] Seventh-Day Adventists.
[C] Methodists.
[D] Unitarians.
[E] Mormons.
D:Unitarians
The Second Great Awakening tended to
[A] unite southern Baptists and southern Methodists against slavery.
[B] widen the lines between classes and regions.
[C] increase the influence of educated clergy.
[D] bring the more prosperous and conservative eastern churches into the revivalist camps.
[E] open Episcopal and Presbyterian churches to the poor.
C: increase the influence of educated clergy
One characteristic of the Mormons that angered many non-Mormons was their
[A] refusal to take up arms and defend themselves.
[B] highly individualistic life-styles.
[C] emphasis on cooperative or group effort.
[D] unwillingness to vote.
[E] flirtation with foreign governments.
C: emphasis on cooperative or group effort
In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax-supported schools were
[A] open only to tuition-paying children of the well-to-do.
[B] most in evidence in the South.
[C] continuously opposed by wealthy, conservative whites.
[D] chiefly available to educate the children of the poor.
[E] more academically demanding than private academies.
D:chiefly available to educate the children of the poor
New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of
[A] women’s education.
[B] the peace movement.
[C] the temperance movement.
[D] prison and asylum reform.
[E] abolitionism.
D:prison and asylum reform
The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s
[A] stemmed from the hard and monotonous (boring) life of many.
[B] was not recognized as a social problem.
[C] held little threat for the family because everyone drank.
[D] had little impact on the efficiency of labor.
[E] did not involve women.
A: stemmed from the hard and monotonous life of many
Match each individual below with the correct description.
___ A. Louis Agassiz
___ B. Gilbert Stuart
___ C. John J. Audubon
1. author of Birds of America
2. portrait artist
3. romantic novelist
4. Harvard biologist
Agassiz - Harvard biologist
Gilbert Stuart - Portrait artist
Audubon - author
“Civil Disobedience,” an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist
[A] Margaret Fuller.
[B] Louisa May Alcott.
[C] Henry David Thoreau.
[D] Ralph Waldo Emerson.
[E] James Fenimore Cooper.
C: Henry David Thoreau
