Deck 14: Forging the National Economy,1790-1860

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
domestic feminism

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Carl Schurz

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
ecological imperialism

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
cult of domesticity

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Samuel F.B.Morse

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
limited liability

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
market revolution

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
DeWitt Clinton

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nativism

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
transportation revolution

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
homesteaders

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Cyrus McCormick

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
factory system

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Catlin

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Samuel Slater

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
industrial revolution

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Eli Whitney

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
scabs

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Robert Fulton

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Catharine Beecher

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
rugged individualism

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
cotton gin

Question 23

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Erie Canal

Question 24

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Lake Michigan

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Know Nothing Party

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
sewing machine

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
interchangeable parts

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Kentucky bluegrass

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"twisting the lion's tail"

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Commonwealth v.Hunt

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
clipper ships

Question 32

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Pennsylvania Canal

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tammany Hall

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Order of the Star-Spangled Banner

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
General Incorporation Law

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pony Express

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Clermont

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Boston Associates

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ancient Order of Hibernians

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Molly Maguires"

Question 41

When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s,they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they

A) preferred urban life.
B) were offered high-paying jobs.
C) were welcomed by the people living there.
D) were too poor to move west and buy land.
E) had experience in urban politics.

Question 42

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Ohio and Erie Canal

Question 43

The influx of immigrants to the United States tripled,then quadrupled,in the

A) 1810s and 1820s.
B) 1820s and 1830s.
C) 1830s and 1840s.
D) 1840s and 1850s.
E) 1860s and 1870s.

Question 44

Life on the frontier was

A) fairly comfortable for women but not for men.
B) downright grim for most pioneer families.
C) free of disease and premature death.
D) rarely portrayed in popular literature.
E) based on tight-knit communities.

Question 45

All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic,market-oriented,national economy in early nineteenth-century America except

A) the push west in search of cheap land.
B) government regulation of all major economic activity.
C) a vast number of European immigrants settling in the cities.
D) newly invented machinery.
E) better roads, faster steamboats, further-reaching canals, and tentacle-stretching railroads.

Question 46

German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to

A) settle in eastern industrial cities.
B) assimilate themselves well into American culture.
C) become slave-owners.
D) join the temperance movement.
E) preserve their own language and culture.

Question 47

The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was

A) the rebellion against British rule and potato famine.
B) influx of immigrants from mostly Eastern European countries.
C) the legalization of the Roman Catholic Church.
D) the migration from the countryside to the city.
E) the increasing use of English instead of Gaelic.

Question 48

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Lake Erie

Question 49

Ireland's great export in the 1840s was

A) people.
B) potatoes.
C) wool.
D) whiskey.
E) music.

Question 50

For women,life on the frontier was especially difficult because they

A) were more susceptible to disease and premature death than men.
B) experienced extreme loneliness, and could go weeks without seeing another person.
C) had to live in three-sided lean-to homes made of sticks.
D) were required to help clear the land and do the housework.
E) None of these

Question 51

George Catlin advocated

A) placing Indians on reservations.
B) efforts to protect America's endangered species.
C) continuing the rendezvous system.
D) keeping white settlers out of the West.
E) the preservation of nature as a national policy.

Question 52

Pioneering Americans marooned by geography

A) never took the time to explore the beauty of the natural landscape.
B) grew to depend on other people for most of their basic needs.
C) abandoned the rugged individualism of colonial Americans.
D) never looked for any help beyond their immediate family.
E) were often ill informed, superstitious, provincial, and fiercely individualistic.

Question 53

Ecological imperialism can best be described as

A) the efforts of white settlers to take land from Native Americans.
B) the aggressive exploitation of the West's bounty.
C) humans' domination over the animal kingdom.
D) the spread of technology and industry.
E) the practice of using spectacular natural settings as symbols of America.

Question 54

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Lake Huron

Question 55

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Cumberland Road

Question 56

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Lake Ontario

Question 57

The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860

A) led to a lower death rate.
B) contributed to a decline in the birthrate.
C) resulted in unsanitary conditions in many communities.
D) forced the federal government to slow immigration.
E) created sharp political conflict between farmers and urbanites.

Question 58

Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these immigrants

A) were poor.
B) were thought to love alcohol.
C) were Roman Catholic.
D) frequently became police officers.
E) were slow to learn English.

Question 59

Whether they were propertied or landless,immigrants were often enticed to leave their homelands by

A) letters from family or friends in the U.S., bragging about easy opportunities for wealth
B) advertisements from companies promising big salaries to those who emigrate.
C) greater prospects of finding a suitable husband or wife.
D) word that there was free land available in the West.
E) None of these

Question 60

In early-nineteenth-century America,the

A) annual population growth rate was much higher than in colonial days.
B) urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate.
C) birthrate was rapidly declining.
D) death rate was increasing.
E) center of population moved northward.

Question 61

Match each individual below with the correct invention.

A) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
B) A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
C) A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3
D) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
E) A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3

Question 62

Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the

A) steamboat.
B) cotton gin.
C) railroad locomotive.
D) telegraph.
E) repeating revolver.

Question 63

The early factory system distributed its benefits

A) mostly to the owners.
B) evenly to all.
C) primarily in the South.
D) to workers represented by unions.
E) to overseas investors.

Question 64

All of the following are true statements about German immigrants except

A) they typically settled in Northeast coastal cities.
B) they tended to be better educated than mainstream Americans.
C) they supported public schools, the arts, and music.
D) they championed freedom and fought to end slavery.
E) they settled in compact colonies to preserve their language and culture.

Question 65

The underlying basis for modern mass production was

A) unionized labor.
B) Supreme Court rulings that favored laissez-faire.
C) the use of interchangeable parts.
D) the principle of limited liability.
E) the passing of protective tariffs.

Question 66

Identify the following statement that is false.

A) Land was cheap in America; this helped fuel the immigration flux.
B) Money for capital investment was not plentiful in pioneering America.
C) Foreign capital was dependent upon security in property rights, sufficient infrastructure, an adequate work force, and political stability.
D) Even though capital was lacking, raw materials were widely developed and discovered in America.
E) The country had a difficult time producing goods of high quality and cheap cost to compete with mass-produced European products.

Question 67

All of the following are true statements about the relationship between Irish immigrants and U.S.citizens except

A) the Irish were seen as wage-depressing competitors for jobs.
B) native workers hated the Irish.
C) the Irish often saw signs on factory gates that said "No Irish Need Apply."
D) race riots between blacks and Irish were common.
E) Irish immigrants became fiercely supportive of the abolitionist cause.

Question 68

Most of the cotton produced in the American South after the invention of the cotton gin was

A) produced by free labor.
B) sold to England.
C) grown on the tidewater plains.
D) consumed by the southern textile industry.
E) of the long-staple variety.

Question 69

When German immigrants came to the United States,they

A) often became Baptist or Methodists.
B) mixed well with other Americans.
C) remained mostly in the Northeast.
D) prospered with astonishing ease.
E) dropped most of their German customs.

Question 70

Immigrants coming to the United States before 1860

A) depressed the economy due to their poverty.
B) found themselves involved in few cultural conflicts.
C) had little impact on society until after the Civil War.
D) settled mostly in the South.
E) helped to fuel economic expansion.

Question 71

Between 1830 and 1860,nearly ____ million Irish arrived in America.

A) 1
B) 2
C) 5
D) 8
E) 10

Question 72

Irish immigrants typically worked in all of the following occupations except

A) domestic servants.
B) construction workers.
C) day laborers.
D) silversmiths.
E) saloon owners.

Question 73

As a result of the development of the cotton gin

A) slavery revived and expanded.
B) American industry bought more southern cotton than did British manufacturers.
C) a nationwide depression ensued.
D) the South diversified its economy.
E) the textile industry moved to the South.

Question 74

The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called

A) the cult of domesticity.
B) nativism.
C) racism.
D) rugged individualism.
E) patriotism.

Question 75

The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was

A) Robert Fulton.
B) Samuel F. B. Morse.
C) Eli Whitney.
D) Samuel Slater.
E) Thomas Edison.

Question 76

A great deal of the cotton produced in the American South in the early nineteenth century was

A) produced by free labor.
B) sold to New England textile mills.
C) grown on the Atlantic tidewater plains.
D) consumed by the southern textile industry.
E) combined with wool to make linsey-woolsey fabrics.

Question 77

Native-born Americans feared that Catholic immigrants to the United States would

A) want to attend school with Protestants.
B) overwhelm the native-born Catholics and control the church.
C) establish the Catholic Church at the expense of Protestantism.
D) assume control of the Know-Nothing party.
E) establish monasteries and convents in the West.

Question 78

Those who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized

A) the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner.
B) the "Molly Maguires."
C) Tammany Hall.
D) the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
E) the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 79

The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed

A) on southern plantations.
B) in the New England textile industry.
C) in rapidly growing Chicago.
D) in railroads and ship building.
E) in coal and iron mining regions.

Question 80

German immigrants to the United States

A) quickly became a powerful political force.
B) came to escape economic hardships and autocratic government.
C) were as poor as the Irish.
D) contributed little to American life.
E) were almost all Roman Catholics.