Chapter 13 and 14

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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