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Life on the frontier was
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Pioneering Americans marooned by geography
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In early-nineteenth-century America,
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The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860
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"Ecological imperialism" can best be described as
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George Catlin advocated
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The influx of immigrants to the United States tripled, then quadrupled, in the
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Ireland's great export in the 1840s was
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The Irish immigrants to early-nineteenth-century America
10. When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger
seaboard cities because they
11. When the "famine Irish" came to America, they
12. Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these
immigrants
13. German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to
14. German immigrants to the United States
15. When German immigrants came to the United States, they
16. Those who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized
17. The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called
18. Native-born Americans feared that Catholic immigrants to the United States would
19. Immigrants coming to the United States before 1860
20. The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was
21. Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the
22. Most of the cotton produced in the American South in the early nineteenth century was
23. The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed
24. As a result of the development of the cotton gin,
25. The underlying basis for modern mass production was the
26. The early factory system distributed its benefits
27. Match each individual below with the correct invention.
28. The American work force in the early nineteenth century was characterized by
29. One reason that the lot of adult wage earners improved was
30. In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that
31. The "cult of domesticity"
32. Early-nineteenth-century American families
33. One of the goals of the child-centered family of the 1800s was to
34. The effect of early-nineteenth-century industrialization on the trans-Allegheny West was
to encourage
35. With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West,
36. The first major transportation project linking the East to the trans-Allegheny West was
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Western road building faced all of the following problems except
38. The major application for steamboats transporting freight and passengers in the United
States was on
39. The "canal era" of American history began with the construction of the
40. Construction of the Erie Canal
41. Most early railroads in the United States were built in the
42. Compared with canals, railroads
43. 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.
44. As a result of the transportation revolution,
45. In general, __________ tended to bind the West and South together, while __________ and
__________ connected West to East.
46. As the new continental market economy grew,
47. A major economic consequence of the transportation and marketing revolutions was
48. America's early-nineteenth-century population was notable for its
49. Factors encouraging the growth of immigration rates in the first half of the nineteenth
century included the
50. The growth of industry and the factory system in the United States was slowed by
51. The Northeast became the center of early-nineteenth-century American industry because it
had
52. The growth of early-nineteenth-century American manufacturing was stimulated by the
53. By 1850, America's factory system was producing
54. The concentration of capital for investment in large-scale enterprises in the early
nineteenth century was promoted by the
55. The turnpikes, canals, and steamboats as new transportation links generally encouraged
56. Clipper ships and the Pony Express had in common
57. Advances in manufacturing and transportation brought
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Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin endorsed the concept of
By 1850, organized religion in America
All the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it
Unitarians endorsed the concept of
An early-nineteenth-century religious rationalist sect devoted to the rule of reason and
free will was the
Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in
As a revivalist preacher, Charles Grandison Finney advocated
The greatest of the revival preachers of the Second Great Awakening was
The Second Great Awakening tended to
The Mormon religion originated in
The religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening
were the
The Second Great Awakening tended to
The original prophet of the Mormon religion was
Which one of the following is least related to the other four?
One characteristic of the Mormons that angered many non-Mormons was their
Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges founded as a result of the Second Great
Awakening
Tax-supported public education
In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax-supported schools were
Noah Webster's dictionary
One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early
nineteenth century was the belief that
Women became especially active in the social reforms stimulated by the Second Great
Awakening because
Two areas where women in the nineteenth century were widely thought to be superior to
men were
New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of
The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s
Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because
One sign that women in America were treated better than women in Europe was
Neal Dow sponsored the Maine Law of 1851, which called for
By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by
According to John Humphrey Noyes, the key to happiness is
The beliefs advocated by John Humphrey Noyes included all of the following except
The key to Oneida's financial success was
The Oneida colony declined due to
The American medical profession by 1860 was noted for
Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held __________ as one of their
founding ideals.
Of the following, the most successful of the early-nineteenth-century communitarian
experiments was at
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When it came to scientific achievement, America in the 1800s was
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Match each individual below with the correct description.
America's artistic achievements in the first half of the nineteenth century
The Hudson River school excelled in the art of painting
A genuinely American literature received a strong boost from the
Match each writer below with his work.
Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through
All of the following influenced transcendental thought except
"Civil Disobedience," an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin
Luther King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist
The Poet Laureate of Democracy, whose emotional and explicit writings expressed a deep
love of the masses and enthusiasm for an expanding America, was
The most noteworthy southern novelist before the Civil War was
One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was
Match each writer below with his work.
Virtually all the distinguished historians of early-nineteenth-century America came from
The Mormons were advocates or practitioners of
Early-nineteenth-century American educators included
In early-nineteenth-century America,
Social reformers of the early nineteenth century wanted to
In early-nineteenth-century America, men usually regarded women as
The leaders of the women's rights movement in the early nineteenth century included
The Knickerbocker group of American writers included
American transcendentalist writers included
Transcendentalists were dedicated to