Question 1

Besides religious phrases, what did Charles Grandison Finney emphasize in his sermons?

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A)   People needed to improve themselves economically.
B)   People had to make choices in their lives similar to making political decisions.
C)   Themes from classical Greek literature.
D)   People needed to make strategic moves in their lives, like a military commander.

Question 2

Which problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?

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A)   Whitney figured out how to remove the cotton-destroying boll weevil and thereby save the cotton crop.
B)   Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive.
C)   Processing cotton required too many different pieces of equipment, but Whitney figured out how to change the equipment more easily and quickly, saving time and money.
D)   Planting the cotton took too many hours to make its growth very profitable, but Whitney enabled planters to use a machine to speed the planting.

Question 3

During the first half of the nineteenth century, individualism:

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A)   came under attack from Henry David Thoreau.
B)   was defined in a way that distinguished it completely from the idea of privacy.
C)   hampered efforts to spread democracy because it reduced interest in suffrage.
D)   was rooted in the idea of self-sufficiency.

Question 4

Which statement about corporations was true in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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A)   Most Americans favored corporate charters with special privileges.
B)   The corporation was only a small part of the new market economy.
C)   Charters from the government strictly controlled corporations.
D)   Corporations were able to raise far more capital than the traditional forms of enterprise.

Question 5

John Jacob Astor, who seemed to exemplify the "self-made man":

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A)   turned out to be a fraud, for it was discovered he counterfeited much of his fortune.
B)   used his great wealth to finance the North during the Civil War.
C)   made huge profits from distributing the machines built by Thomas Rodgers.
D)   became wealthy by trading goods between the United States and China.

Question 6

The idea of leveling the playing field between worker and management was best personified in the writings of which American?

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A)   Karl Marx.
B)   Ralph Waldo Emerson.
C)   Orestes Brownson.
D)   Henry David Thoreau.

Question 7

Explain how innovations in technology changed the daily lives of Americans involved in agriculture between 1800 and 1860.

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Question 8

How did the market revolution affect western farming?

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A)   Cyrus McCormick's reaper slowed down the process of harvesting wheat.
B)   Farmers in the Old Northwest used slave labor to expand their production.
C)   Farmers in the West found markets in the East for their crops and livestock.
D)   Farms in the eastern United States continued to grow more corn than in the West.

Question 9

How did Mormonism challenge societal norms?

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A)   The Mormon leadership wanted to allow women in leadership positions.
B)   The Mormons conducted marriages in different ways.
C)   The Mormons believed that Jesus Christ never existed.
D)   The Mormons believed the Native Americans came from East Asia and brought Buddhism.

Question 10

The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in:

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A)   manufacturing.
B)   transportation and communication.
C)   banking and financing.
D)   labor contracts.

Question 11

The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest?

Accepted Answer

A)   Baltimore.
B)   Philadelphia.
C)   Boston.
D)   New York.

Question 12

An advantage of water transportation over road transportation was that:

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A)   canals cost less to construct than roads.
B)   canal construction was easier to do than road construction.
C)   canal boats could haul much larger loads than wagons on roads.
D)   the federal government preferred to fund canal projects over road transportation.

Question 13

Which denomination enjoyed the largest membership in the United States by the 1840s?

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A)   Methodist.
B)   Roman Catholic.
C)   Quaker.
D)   Presbyterian.

Question 14

The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was:

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A)   textiles.
B)   guns.
C)   ironworks.
D)   pottery.

Question 15

Squatters:

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A)   set up farms on unoccupied land.
B)   were corporate charters issued by states as contracts.
C)   strung telegraph lines between poles.
D)   set the dynamite as part of railroad construction crews.

Question 16

The American railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century:

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A)   was exclusively in the North.
B)   stimulated the coal mining industry.
C)   was smaller in terms of total miles of track than the European rail system.
D)   mainly connected one waterway to another waterway.

Question 17

What did Noah Webster's American Dictionary define as "a state of exemption from the power or control of another"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Masculinity.
B)   Individualism.
C)   Artisanship.
D)   Freedom.

Question 18

Samuel Slater:

Accepted Answer

A)   developed stone-crushing technology useful for road building.
B)   established America's first factory.
C)   invented the cotton gin.
D)   established the Erie Canal.

Question 19

What was a factor in the nation's acquisition of Florida from Spain?

Accepted Answer

A)   Andrew Jackson led an army to invade Florida, subsequently killing British agents.
B)   Spain no longer mined for gold in Florida.
C)   Abolitionists hoped to create a refuge for fugitive slaves.
D)   Businessmen hoped soft sandy beaches would bring in tourist money.

Question 20

The American Scholar (1837) 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another sign of our times, also marked by an analogous political movement, is, the new importance given to the single person. Every thing that tends to insulate the individual,-to surround him with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state;-tends to true union as well as greatness. "I learned," said the melancholy Pestalozzi, "that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man." Help must come from the bosom alone. . . .
We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
-Based on the passage above, which of the following concepts would Emerson regard as most contrary to his message?

Accepted Answer

A)   the ideal of the yeoman farmer
B)   the influence of classical Greek and Roman designs on architecture in America
C)   artistic movements focused on American landscapes
D)   reform movements that address the social ills in society

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