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VCHS APUSH 14-15
AP US History questions, chapter 14-15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Life on the frontier was | downright grim for most pioneer families |
| All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic market-oriented national economy in early nineteenth-century America except | government regulation of all major economic activity |
| Pioneering Americans marooned by geography | were often ill informed |
| For women life on the frontier was especially difficult because they | experienced extreme loneliness and mental breakdowns for weeks without seeing another person |
| Ecological imperialism as exemplified during the American historical period of 1790-1860 can best be described as | the wanton heedless exploitation of natural resources by humans aggressively engaged in economic development and trade |
| In early-nineteenth-century America the | urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate |
| George Catlin advocated | the preservation of nature as a national policy |
| The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860 | resulted in unsanitary conditions in many communities |
| The influx of immigrants to the United States tripled then quadrupled in the | 1840s and 1850s |
| The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was | the rebellion against British rule and potato famine |
| Ireland's great export in the 1840s was | people |
| Whether they were propertied or landless immigrants were often enticed to leave their homelands by | letters from family or friends in the Us |
| When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they | were too poor to move west and buy land |
| Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish immigrants for all except | the Irish immigrants were very slow to learn American English and mostly spoke Gaelic in their urban neighborhoods |
| German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to | preserve their own language and culture |
| German immigrants to the United States | came to escape economic hardships and autocratic government |
| The relationship between Irish immigrants and US citizens | Irish immigrants became fiercely supportive of the abolitionist cause |
| When German immigrants came to the United States they | prospered with astonishing ease |
| Those nativists who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized in 1849 | the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner |
| The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called | nativism |
| Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin endorsed | the belief that a Supreme Being endowed human beings with a capacity for moral behavior |
| Unitarians held the following beliefs except | they believed in a stern and Puritan type of God |
| By 1850 all of the following were true about developments in organized religion in America except | organized religion had generally grown more theologically conservative than during the colonial eras |
| All the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it | was not as large democratic or influential in terms of social reform as the First Great Awakening |
| Unitarians endorsed the concept of | free will and salvation through good works |
| Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in | a stronger religious influence in many areas of American life including abolitionism and benevolent and charitable organizations |
| As one the greatest of the revivalist preachers Charles Grandison Finney advocated | All of these choices are correct |
| The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it | more reliant on women as members and social reformers |
| All of the following contributed to the appeal of the Second Great Awakening to women except | it encouraged women to enter into professions normally reserved for men in order to make these professional more ethical and morally upright |
| The Second Great Awakening tended to | promote religious diversity |
| The religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were the | Methodists and Baptists |
| The Second Great Awakening tended to | widen the lines between classes and regions |
| The Mormon religion originated in | the Burned-Over District of New York |
| The original prophet of the Mormon religion was | Joseph Smith |
| Which of the following events prompted the Mormons to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo Illinois and set out West to the valley of the Great Salt Lake? | Continuing vicious hostility by non-Mormon Americans including the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother |
| Besides polygamy | characteristic behavior(s) of Mormons which angered many non-Mormon Americans in the 1840s was their |
| Tax-supported public education between 1825 and 1850 was | deemed essential for social stability and democracy |
| The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of | Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann |
| The religious zeal of the Second Great Awakening led to the founding of many small denominational liberal arts colleges chiefly in the | South and West |
| Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges founded as a result of the Second Great Awakening | lacked much intellectual vitality |
| Between 1830 and 1860 nearly ____ million Irish arrived in America | 2 |
| The initial waves of Irish immigrants typically worked in all of the following occupations | domestic servants; construction workers; day laborers |
| Native-born Protestant Americans feared that Catholic immigrants to the United States would | outbreed outvote and eventually overwhelm politically socially and culturally the Protestant native-born citizens and culture of America |
| All of the following are true statements about German immigrants | they tended to be better educated than mainstream Americans; they supported public schools the arts and music; they settled in compact colonies to preserve their language and culture |
| Immigrants coming to the United States before 1860 | helped to fuel economic expansion |
| Identify the following statements that are true | Land was cheap in America; this helped fuel the immigration flux in the 1840s and 1850s; The United States had a difficult time producing goods of high quality and cheap cost to compete with mass-produced European products from colonial times until the 18 |
| The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was | Samuel Slater |
| Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the | cotton gin |
| A great deal of the cotton produced in the American South in the early nineteenth century was | sold to New England textile mills |
| Most of the cotton produced in the American South after the invention of the cotton gin was | sold to England for production of textiles in their mills |
| The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed | in the New England textile industry |
| As a result of the development of the cotton gin | slavery revived and expanded |
| The underlying basis for modern mass production was | the use of interchangeable parts |
| The early factory system distributed its economic benefits | mostly to the owners |
| By the time of the fabled London World's Fair in 1851 | American products were prominent among the world's commercial wonders |
| Samuel Morse | steamboat |
| Cyrus McCormick | telegraph |
| Elias Howe | sewing machine |
| Robert Fulton | mower-reaper |
| The American workforce in the early nineteenth century was characterized by | substantial employment of women and children in factories |
| One reason that the condition of a significant segment of adult wage earners improved was | the enfranchisement of the laboring man |
| In the case of Commonwealth v Hunt (1842) | the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that |
| All of the following are true statements about the workers in the Lowell factory system except | they worked a maximum five days a week for eight hours a day |
| These things influenced transcendental thought except | German philosophers love of nature individualism |
| "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 |
| A dark writer whose genres included poetry horror stories | and detective fiction was |
| The writer who faded to obscurity in the nineteenth century but was recognized as one of America's greatest literary geniuses in the twentieth century and wrote the masterpiece work of fiction Moby Dick was | Herman Melville |
| The most noteworthy southern novelist before the Civil War who wrote works such as The Yemasee and The Cassique of Kiawah was | William Gilmore Simms |
| One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Edgar Allan Poe | "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | "The Scarlet Letter" |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | "The American Scholar" |
| Virtually all the distinguished American historians who wrote American and Latin American histories during the mid-nineteenth century came from | New England |
| In the first half of the nineteenth century | tax-supported schools were |
| Despite early resistance | the main reason free public education ultimately triumphed was |
| Noah Webster's dictionary | helped to standardize the American language |
| One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that | too much learning would injure women's brains ruin their health and make them unfit for marriage |
| New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of | prison and asylum reform |
| The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s | stemmed from the hard |
| Neal Dow sponsored the Maine Law of 1851 which called for | a ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor |
| All of the following were nineteenth century notions of gender differences except | men were charged with teaching young boys to be good and productive citizens |
| Two areas where women in the nineteenth century were widely thought to be superior to men were | moral sensibility and artistic refinement |
| Those seeking to reform women's style of dress in the 1840s claimed all of the following except | corsets constricted women's vital organs |
| Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because | the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles |
| Which of these are associated with the rise of the modern women's rights movement in 1848? | Women's increasing involvement in the antislavery movement |
| By the 1850s | the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by |
| Which of the following was associated with the early nineteenth-century cause of women's rights? | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony |
| According to John Humphrey Noyes | founder of the utopian Oneida Community |
| The beliefs advocated by John Humphrey Noyes of the Oneida Community included all of these | no private property sharing of all material goods and improvement of the human race through eugenics |
| The key to Oneida's financial success was | the manufacture of steel animal traps and silverware |
| The Oneida colony declined due to | widespread criticism from neighbors of its licentious "free love" sexual practice |
| Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held ____ as one of their founding ideals | cooperative social and economic practices |
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