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1
Which of the following did not play a substantial role in American population growth between 1800 and 1830?
A)Improvements in public health
B)Lower mortality rate
C)High birth rate
D)Immigration
2
From what nation did most immigrants of the antebellum era hail?
A)Italy
B)Germany
C)Ireland
D)Mexico
3
Which of the following did not play a major role in the amazing growth of antebellum New York City?
A)The annexation of Brooklyn
B)The Erie Canal
C)Liberal state laws
D)A superior natural harbor
4
What percentage of Americans lived in a town of 2500 or more by 1860?
A)15%
B)26%
C)37%
D)55%
5
Which of the following did not play a role in the growth of immigration between 1840 and 1860?
A)The potato famine
B)The counterrevolutions of 1848
C)Economic dislocations of the Industrial Revolution
D)Liberal "right-to-work" laws in the United States
6
Which of the following was not generally an argument used by antebellum nativists?
A)Foreigners were stealing jobs from the native labor force.
B)Foreigners did not have sufficient standards of civilization.
C)Foreigners were swelling the ranks of the Whig Party.
D)Foreigners were unwitting agents of the Vatican church.
7
Which of the following leaders helped to push forward the digging of the Erie Canal?
A)Aaron Burr
B)Daniel Webster
C)De Witt Clinton
D)Robert Fulton
8
In what year did the Erie Canal open for public use?
A)1817
B)1825
C)1837
D)1845
9
What was the first company to begin railroad operations in the US?
A)The Baltimore and Ohio
B)The Mohawk and Hudson
C)The Stockton and Darlington
D)The Reading Raiload
10
The Northeast had ______ railroad trackage as the South.
A)the same amount of
B)twice as much
C)four times as much
D)eight times as much
11
Which city became the rail center of the West?
A)St. Louis
B)Cincinnati
C)Chicago
D)Cleveland
12
What was the first piece of news transmitted over the telegraph?
A)The death of Andrew Jackson
B)James K. Polk's nomination for the presidency
C)The death of William Henry Harrison
D)The text of Webster's Second reply to Hayne
13
Which of the following business transformations did not occur between 1820 and 1840?
A)The systematic distribution of retail goods
B)The passage of limited liability laws
C)The rise of mail-order catalog stores
D)The passage of general incorporation laws
14
The Northeast produced _______ of the nation's manufactured goods.
A)one-third
B)one-half
C)two-thirds
D)three-fourths
15
Which of the following is not true of the Lowell or Waltham system?
A)Employees tended to be young, single females.
B)Employees were subject to strict curfews and church attendance
C)Employees were not able to form a union.
D)Employees lived in company-owned boardinghouses near the factory.
16
Who replaced the women of Lowell as the major source of factory workers for Northern industrialists?
A)Irish immigrants
B)Free blacks
C)Native-born men
D)Slaves
17
Which of the following states passed a ten-hour-day law?
A)Massachusetts
B)New Hampshire
C)New York
D)Illinois
18
What did the Massachusetts court decide in the 1842 case of Commonwealth v. Hunt?
A)Strikes were illegal combinations in restraint of trade
B)Ten-hour days were illegal impositions on the right-to-work.
C)Both unions and strikes were lawful.
D)The state child-labor-law was unconstitutional.
19
Which of the following social or demographic changes is not true of antebellum society?
A)Income disparity grew more unequal.
B)Conspicuous consumption grew among the wealthy.
C)A population of urban poor began to emerge.
D)The average American income actually fell.
20
The fastest-growing group in America during the antebellum period was:
A)The wealthy
B)The middle-class
C)The poor
D)Artisans
21
Which of the following is not true of antebellum family life?
A)The birth rate fell
B)Work moved out of the home.
C)Women gained the right to divorce.
D)Women began to inhabit a "separate sphere."
22
What was the first college in America to accept female students?
A)Oberlin
B)Wellesley
C)Mt. Holyoke
D)Princeton
23
What holiday took on special importance in the nineteenth century as a day free of work?
A)Evacuation Day
B)Thanksgiving
C)July 4th
D)Halloween
24
Which of the following was not a way in which Northeastern farmers responded to agricultural competition from the Northwest?
A)They moved west and established new farms.
B)They attempted to bar slavery in Northwestern states.
C)They switched to raising vegetables and dairy products.
D)They moved to mill towns and became laborers.
25
Which of the following did not produce a technological innovation that influenced antebellum farming?
A)Jerome I. Case
B)John Deere
C)Cyrus McCormick
D)Frederick Jackson Turner





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