Chapter 9 (The Market Revolution, 1800 - 1840)

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The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated:

A. the sale of parts of Florida from Spain to the United States.

B. an end to fighting between France and the United States.

C. the purchase of land in which to construct the National Road.

D. an agreement not to allow slavery in the new states of Indiana and Ohio.

The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated:

A. the sale of parts of Florida from Spain to the United States.

B. an end to fighting between France and the United States.

C. the purchase of land in which to construct the National Road.

D. an agreement not to allow slavery in the new states of Indiana and Ohio.

A. the sale of parts of Florida from Spain to the United States.

Which of the following was a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution?

A. the rise of employment

B. the increase of small businesses

C. America's failure to attract many newcomers from Europe

D. the increasing dependence of workers upon wage labor

D. the increasing dependence of workers upon wage labor

What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?

A. revolver

B. steam engine

C. cotton gin

D. iron smelter

C. cotton gin

Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to:

A. canals.

B. steel plow.

C. railroads.

D. steamboat.

C. railroads.

What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?

A. reduced it gradually

D. caused a sharp collapse in U.S. manufacturers

C. stimulated its growth

D. reduced production in the North, but increased production in the South

C. stimulated its growth

Early U.S. textile mills relied largely on the labor of:

A. indentured servants.

B. men organized into early trade unions (earlier called "guilds").

C. unskilled labor of boys and young men fresh from the farm.

D. women and children.

D. women and children.

"Manifest destiny" was:

A, the name of the frigate invented by Robert Fulton that first sailed up the Hudson River.

B. the famous list of the cargo--the manifest--carried by HMS Destiny.

C. an idea that the truth will manifest itself regarding the politics of the early nation.

D. the belief that the United States had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward.

D. the belief that the United States had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward.

The Second Great Awakening was:

A. a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.

B. Emerson and Thoreau's utopian vision of the labor movement.

C. the rebirth of classical learning in the rising American university.

D. a celebration of the factory replacing outdated methods of producing goods.

A. a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following?

A. a southerner

B. a transcendentalist

C. proslavery

D. the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

B. a transcendentalist

Democracy in America was written by:

A. Andrew Jackson.

B. Thomas Jefferson.

C. Alexis de Tocqueville.

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

C. Alexis de Tocqueville.

Between 1800 and 1860, around 1 million slaves moved from older slave states to the Deep South, traveling:

A. with their owners to work as free people.

B. with local Native American tribes.

C. to the Deep South to work in cotton fields.

D. by themselves.

C. to the Deep South to work in cotton fields.

Between 1840 and 1860, most immigrants entering the United States were from what two countries?

A. France and England

B. Poland and Italy

C. Spain and Portugal

D. Germany and Ireland

D. Germany and Ireland

This religion started after its leader claimed to have been led by an angel to a set of golden plates covered with strange writing, which he translated and later published.

A. Anabaptism

B. Lutheran

C. Quaker

D. Mormonism

D. Mormonism

New York City and Philadelphia experienced what type of violent events in the 1840s and 1850s?

A. bread riots led by women

B. slave rebellions

C. Indian attacks

D. anti-immigrant riots

D. anti-immigrant riots

The Alien Act of 1798 reflected fear of immigrants possessing:

A. pro-U.S. literature.

B. birth control information.

C. passports.

D. radical political views.

D. radical political views.

T/F: The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution.

False

T/F: During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth.

True

T/F: Florida was victoriously delivered to American hands with the assistance of local Indians and Spain's suggestion to sell the area.

False

T/F: Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money.

True