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You should read/examine/analyze the FOUR following primary source documents in
preparation for the Exam: The Monroe Doctrine, Complaint of a Lowell Factory Worker,
Women in the Westward Movement, and Washington’s Farewell Address. Additionally, know
the following information from Chapters 8-11 for the multiple-choice portion.
From Chapter 8
• When George Washington took office as the first president of the United States,
American leaders believed that the new nation’s success depended on:
• Alexander Hamilton’s long-term goal was to:
• Characteristics of Alexander Hamilton’s financial program?
• Objections raised by critics of Hamilton’s proposals?
• “Strict constructionists” believed:
• How did Americans respond to the French Revolution?
• Which international partner did Alexander Hamilton think most important for the
survival and prosperity of the United States?
• Characteristics of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794?
• Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:
• The “quasi-war” was a war of the United States against:
• The Sedition Act targeted:
• The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were a response to:
• American Response to Toussaint L’Ouverture’s slave uprising, which led to the
establishment of Haiti as an independent nation in 1804?
• Gabriel’s Rebellion:
• After becoming president, how did Thomas Jefferson deal with the Federalists?
• What was the significance of the case of Marbury v. Madison?
• In its decision in the case of Fletcher v. Peck, the U.S. Supreme Court:
• Why did Jefferson use the U.S. navy against North African states?
• What was unusual about the Embargo Act of 1807?
• Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa were brothers who:
From Chapter 9
• The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in:
• Which improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of
commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?
• What was the significance of Robert Fulton?
• The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the
Northwest?
• The American railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century:
• Most of the states that joined the Union in the six years immediately following the War of
1812 were located:
• Squatters:
• Which problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?
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What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?
How did the market revolution affect the lives of artisans?
What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even
large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s?
The “American System of manufactures”:
Women who worked at the Lowell mills:
The majority of the nearly 4 million immigrants that entered the United States between 1840
and 1860 were from:
Nativists’ view of immigrants in the 1840s?
According to John O’Sullivan, the “manifest destiny” of the United States to occupy North
America could be traced to:
The transcendentalist movement:
Who believed that freedom was an open-ended process of self-realization by which
individuals could remake themselves and their own lives?
Henry David Thoreau believed that:
According to the Mormons, who was God’s prophet?
The cult of domesticity:
What came to be redefined as a personal moral quality associated more and more closely
with women?
The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to:
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In the early to mid-nineteenth century, property qualifications for voting:
The Dorr War:
The key insight of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Tocqueville on Democracy was that:
By the 1830s, the term “citizen” in America had become synonymous with the right to:
A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of
democracy was:
In response to the demand for internal improvements, President James Madison:
In the first half of the nineteenth century, paper money:
The Panic of 1819:
The term “Era of Good Feelings” refers to the period of American history when:
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:
Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of
1820–1821:
The independence movements in Latin America between 1810 and 1822:
The Monroe Doctrine:
As president, John Quincy Adams proposed a comprehensive plan for an activist state,
which called for:
The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:
The national political parties of the second American party system were:
• The nullification crisis:
• Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830s as the most prominent
spokesman for the right of nullification?
• The Force Act of 1833:
• The nullification crisis ended:
• In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that:
• The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision:
• How does the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the
presidency?
• “Hard money” in the 1830s referred to:
• The Panic of 1837:
• As president, John Tyler:
From Chapter 11
• The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of
thousands of enslaved persons from:
• The term “Lords of the Loom” refers to:
• Which of the following is a true statement relative to the Upper South and the Deep South?
• Southern farmers in the backcountry:
• The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers:
• Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political power:
• Which event is credited with helping to ingrain the paternalist ethos more deeply into the
lives of southern slaveholders?
• In the South, the paternalist ethos:
• John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh:
• By the late 1830s, the South’s proslavery argument:
• Defenders of American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830s had been a
failure because:
• Free blacks in the South were allowed to:
• What was the name of the vibrant community of former slaves freed by Virginian Richard
Randolph?
• Which state had the least amount of free blacks?
• Task labor:
• The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. According to
the text, what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had?
• Jumping over a broomstick was a ceremony celebrating:
• Gender roles under slavery:
• Harriet Tubman:
• Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy: