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APUSH Ch 14 & 15

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show downright grim for most pioneer families  
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show government regulation of all major economic activity  
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Pioneering Americans marooned by geography were often ill informed superstitious provincial and fiercely individualistic   show
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show life on the frontier was especially difficult because they  
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show heedless exploitation of natural resources by humans aggressively engaged in economic development and trade  
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show urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate  
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show the preservation of nature as a national policy  
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George Catlin advocated   show
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The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860   show
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show 1840s and 1850s  
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show the rebellion against British rule and potato famine  
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show people  
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show letters from family or friends in the United States  
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When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s   show
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Native-born Protestant Americans trusted the Irish immigrants for all of the following reasons   show
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show the Irish immigrants were financially poor and initially struggled to make economic gains in American society; the Irish immigrants were thought to love alcohol to excess; the Irish immigrants constructed a network of parish schools that promoted and adva  
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German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to   show
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German immigrants to the United States   show
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show preserve their own language and culture  
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S   show
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show the Irish were seen as wage-depressing competitors for jobs by many Protestant American workers; Nativist Americans from the middle and upper classes generally hated the Irish; the Irish often saw signs on factory gates that said "No Irish Need Apply  
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show they prospered with astonishing ease  
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Those nativists who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized in 1849   show
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The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called   show
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Western road building in the early 1800s faced all of the following problems except   show
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The major application for steamboats transporting freight and passengers in the United States was on   show
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show Erie Canal New York  
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Construction of the Erie Canal   show
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show North  
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show could be built almost anywhere with sufficient financial capital  
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show rigorous economic competition from steamboat traffic; which undermined the argument for improved and more connecting western roads  
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show Western and Southern rivers  
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The canal era of American history began in 1817 with the construction of the   show
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show forced some New England farmers to move or change occupations  
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show North  
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show could be built almost anywhere with sufficient financial capital  
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show 2 million  
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The initial waves of Irish immigrants did not work in which occupation   show
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show outbreed outvote and eventually overwhelm politically socially and culturally the Protestant native-born citizens and culture of America  
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Characteristics of german immigrants include what   show
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Immigrants coming to the United States before 1860 did what   show
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show Even though capital was lacking raw materials were widely developed and discovered in America from colonial times through the 1840s  
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show Samuel Slater  
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show cotton gin  
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A great deal of the cotton produced in the American South in the early nineteenth century was   show
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Most of the cotton produced in the American South after the invention of the cotton gin was   show
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The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed   show
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show slavery revived and expanded  
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The underlying basis for modern mass production was what   show
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show mostly to the owners  
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By the time of the fabled London World's Fair in 1851 American products were prominent among the world's commercial wonders which included all of the following   show
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show Samuel Morse What is Cyrus McCormick most known for  
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show substantial employment of women and children in factories  
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show the enfranchisement of the laboring man  
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In the case of Commonwealth v Hunt (1842) the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that   show
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show they were virtually all New England farm girls- they were carefully supervised on and off- the job by watchful matrons- they lived in company boarding houses and were forbidden to form unions  
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The cult of domesticity   show
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show were getting smaller  
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One of the primary goals of the child-centered family of the early-mid 1800s was to   show
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The effect of early-nineteenth-century industrialization on the trans-Allegheny West was to encourage   show
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With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West   show
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The first major transportation project in the United States; which ran sixty-two miles and was completed in the 1790s; that proved to be a stimulus for western economic developments was the   show
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show rigorous economic competition from steamboat traffic; which undermined the argument for improved and more connecting western roads  
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show Western and Southern rivers  
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The canal era of American history began in 1817 with the construction of the   show
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Construction of the Erie Canal   show
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show North  
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Compared with canals; railroads   show
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show steamboats; canals; railroads  
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show grew cotton; eastern factory workers; made machines and textiles  
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As the new continental market economy grew   show
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show a gradual steady improvement in average wages and standards of living for all workers including unskilled workers  
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All of the following were legal questions raised as a result of the new market economy including   show
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A third revolution accompanied the reformation of American politics and the transformation of the American economy in the mid-nineteenth century that contained all of the following characteristics including   show
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Church attendance was still a regular ritual for ____ of the 23 million Americans in 1850   show
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The Deist faith embraced all of the following except   show
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show Oneida New York  
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show its still primitive standards  
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When it came to scientific achievement America in the 1800s was   show
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Thomas Jefferson was an   show
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show portrait artist from Rhode Island  
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show author of Little Women  
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show transcendentalist editor of The Dial  
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show borrowed heavily from existing European styles in painting and architecture  
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Perhaps the greatest inhibiting factor for American artists in the first half of the nineteenth century was the   show
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show landscapes  
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show wave of nationalism that followed the War of 1812  
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show The Marble Faun  
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James Fenimore Cooper was   show
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show Moby Dick  
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show Walden  
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Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through   show
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"Civil Disobedience" was an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr was written by the transcendentalist   show
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show Walt Whitman  
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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   show
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show William Gilmore Simms  
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show Edgar Allan Poe  
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Louisa May Alcott was   show
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show “The Fall of the House of Usher”  
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was   show
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show “The American Scholar”  
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Virtually all the distinguished American historians who wrote American and Latin American histories during the mid-nineteenth century came from   show
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