Question 1

Antebellum minstrel shows:

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A)   featured the songs of Stephen Foster
B)   featured black performers made up as whites
C)   were similar to operatic shows
D)   portrayed black characters positively
E)   were embraced by elite and educated audiences

Question 2

The settlement of the West was accelerated by Cyrus McCormick's invention of the:

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A)   steel plow
B)   grain elevator
C)   mechanical reaper
D)   chainsaw
E)   tractor

Question 3

The cotton gin:

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A)   made possible efficient separation of seeds from fiber
B)   was an engine that manufactured cloth
C)   made the South the wealthiest part of the country
D)   had no significant effect on the North's economy
E)   resulted from a government bounty paid to its inventor

Question 4

The largest professional occupation for men in the United States by 1860 was:

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A)   teaching
B)   medicine
C)   the law
D)   nursing
E)   engineering

Question 5

By 1860, one would most likely encounter Norwegian and Swedish immigrants in:

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A)   New York and New Jersey
B)   Ohio and Pennsylvania
C)   California and Oregon
D)   Wisconsin and Minnesota
E)   Texas and Louisiana

Question 6

The textile plant established in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1813:

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A)   manufactured finished cloth
B)   was owned by the state government
C)   was destroyed by the British in the War of 1812
D)   closed because of the Panic of 1819
E)   manufactured thread, which it then sold to weavers

Question 7

In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that:

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A)   immigration quotas established in the late 1830s were constitutional
B)   immigration quotas established in the late 1830s were unconstitutional
C)   forming a trade union was illegal
D)   forming a trade union was not illegal
E)   employers could not hire strikebreakers

Question 8

The first American factories produced:

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A)   cotton textiles
B)   leather goods
C)   tobacco products
D)   glass products
E)   muskets

Question 9

Discuss the transportation revolution that followed the opening of the Erie Canal.

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Question 10

Trade associations, or guilds, formed by artisans in the early 1800s attempted to do all the following EXCEPT:

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A)   recruit unskilled workers
B)   improve working conditions
C)   influence politicians to support protective tariffs
D)   uphold standards of quality production
E)   maintain decent wage levels

Question 11

Describe the Lowell system and both its short-term and long-term effects on American industry.

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Question 12

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Charles Goodyear

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A)  invented the telegraph
B)  invented the sewing machine
C)  with Boston Associates, formed the Boston Manufacturing Company
D)  wrote "Oh! Susanna"
E)  immigrant piano makerF) invented the primitive grain reaperG) advocate of free public educationH) patented a process for vulcanizing rubberI) improved the steamboatJ) used his memory to bring industrial technology from Britain to the United States

Question 13

The Know-Nothings campaigned primarily to:

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A)   cut taxes
B)   establish public schools
C)   promote Christianity
D)   prohibit drinking
E)   limit immigrant influence

Question 14

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Robert Fulton

Accepted Answer

A)  invented the telegraph
B)  invented the sewing machine
C)  with Boston Associates, formed the Boston Manufacturing Company
D)  wrote "Oh! Susanna"
E)  immigrant piano makerF) invented the primitive grain reaperG) advocate of free public educationH) patented a process for vulcanizing rubberI) improved the steamboatJ) used his memory to bring industrial technology from Britain to the United States

Question 15

The major impetus for the huge Irish immigration to the United States after 1845 was:

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A)   religious freedom in the United States
B)   an abundance of cheap land
C)   high wages in factories
D)   a deadly potato famine
E)   hatred of British rule in Ireland

Question 16

Examine the movement westward that took place in the early nineteenth century, making note of the various pieces of legislation that played a role in the process.

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Question 17

The Germans who came to the United States:

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A)   were overwhelmingly Catholic
B)   were poor and uneducated
C)   settled mainly in rural areas
D)   were highly individualistic
E)   for religious reasons, did not drink beer

Question 18

The New England textile industry's use of water power:

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A)   dramatically altered the region's ecology
B)   made its products more expensive
C)   was never a source of controversy
D)   largely ended by 1850 as factories switched to steam power
E)   dried up some rivers completely

Question 19

All of the following were true of the trains in use by the 1850s EXCEPT:

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A)   they were much faster than stagecoaches and steamboats
B)   they spurred iron production
C)   they reduced transportation costs
D)   they encouraged further expansion of farming
E)   they could only operate on flat terrain

Question 20

Explain the unique character of American technological development in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Discuss the transportation revolution that followed the opening of the Erie Canal.

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The textile plant established in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1813:

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In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that:

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The cotton gin:

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By 1860, one would most likely encounter Norwegian and Swedish immigrants in:

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Explain the unique character of American technological development in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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