Guide to Doing Well in Apunited States History

Ch. 14-15

1. The Mormon religion originated in A) the burned-over district of New York
2. All of the following were legal questions raised as a result of the new market economy except A) can a democratic government still support slavery?
3. Most early railroads in the U.S. were built in the B) North
4. The early factory system distributed its benefits E) mostly to the owners
5. Match the following

1. Washington Irving                     1. Walden
2. James Fenimore Cooper                2. Leatherstocking Tales
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson                  3. The Sketchbook, wit “Rip Van Winkle”

                  4. “The American Scholar

A) A3 B2 C4

6. The American medical Profession by 1860 was noted for D) its still primitive standards

        7. All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in early 19th century America except E) government regulation of all major economic industry

        8. An early 19th century religion’s rationalist sect devoted to the rule of reason and free will was the E) Unitarians

        9. Which one of the following is least related to the other four? E) William Miller

        10. When it came to scientific achievement, America in the 1800s was A) more interested in practical matters

        11. In the case of Commonwealth vs. Hunt, the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that D) labor unions were not illegal conspiracies

        12. One reason that the lot of adult wage earners improved was C) the enfranchisement of the laboring men

13. Tax-supported public education D) was deemed essential for social stability and democracy

14. Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through D) an inner light

15. One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early 19th century was the belief that D) too much learning would injure women’s brain and ruin their health

16. Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges founded as a result of the Second Great Awakening C) lacked much intellectual vitality

17. The effect of early 19th century industrialization on the trans-Allegheny West was to encourage

C) specialized, cash-crop agriculture

18. As a revivalist preacher, Charles Grandison Finney advocated E) all of the above

A) a perfect Christian kingdom on Earth

B) opposition to alcohol

C) public prayer by women

D) opposition to slavery

19. The irish immigrants to early 19th century America D) were mostly Roman catholics and hated the British

20. One sign that women in America were treated better than women in Europe was D) that rape was more severely punished in the US

21. America’s Artistic achievements in the 1st half of the 19th century –were least notable in architecture

22. Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these immigrants- were Roman Catholic