Here are some review questions. The answers are in a separate document.
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In the seaport cities, the market revolution
a. Had little or no impact
b. Led to a decline of the handicraft industries such as shoemaking and tailoring
c. Stimulated a rise in real estate prices for waterfront property
d. Created a new class of “white-collar” workers that included lawyers, wholesale and retail manufacturers,
bookkeepers and clerks
e. None of the above
The reasons most Americans took up arms in 1775 was
a. To establish a republican regime
b. To avoid paying taxes
c. To restore the empire to what it had been before 1763
d. To establish a radically new vision of the future
e. To fight the Indians
When Congress chartered the Second Bank of the U.S., it
a. Did not debate its constitutionality
b. Limited its ability to do business to the Northeast
c. Almost defeated the bill as unconstitutional
d. Had no power over state banks
e. Did not accept its notes as payment for taxes
The national market that developed after the 1840s included all of the following except
a. Western farmers
b. Southern planters
c. Northeastern businessmen
d. Northeastern manufacturers
e. Northeastern livestock producers
5. The market revolution meant all of the following for American women except
a. More intensive mothering of their children
b. Continued work in dairying and poultry raising
c. More attention to baking cakes, pies, and other fancy food
d. More time spent sewing, washing, and ironing
e. More attention to fashion
6. The so-called ___________ attempted to develop a truly national economy.
7. The slaveholding senator from South Carolina who stated that “cotton is king” was ___________.
8. In 1860, only _________ percent of slaveowners owned 20 or more slaves.
9. Congress drew up the first overtly protective tariff in U.S. history in ___________.
10. The National Road linked ____________ with the Ohio River at Wheeling, Virginia.
11. The most widely read novelist in the U.S. before the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was
a. Nathaniel Hawthorne
b. Herman Melville
c. Harriet Beecher Stowe
d. Susan Warner
e. Walt Whitman
12. For the most part, the domesticity novels written by women during the mid-19th C were
a. Frivolous fairy tales
b. Subversive attacks on the power relations in society
c. Sentimental pastimes of little import
d. Political calls for revolution
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e. Stories that supported the power structure
The most popular form of theater among 19th C Americans was
a. Shakespearean dramas
b. Sir Walter Scott romances
c. Minstrel shows
d. Burlesque shows
e. Opera
For the most part, the white family in the South was committed to
a. Egalitarian family relations
b. Almost equal sharing of authority between mothers and fathers
c. Promiscuous family relationships
d. A maternalistic familial organization
e. Traditional, paternalistic control
The leader of the aborted slave rebellion in South Carolina in 1822 was
a. Nat Turner
b. Gabriel
c. Denmark Vesey
d. Frederick Douglas
e. None of the above
The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was ___________.
The Southern Presbyterian minister who wrote “how to preach to slaves” manuals and encouraged slaves to be
obedient was ___________.
After the 1830s, Baptists and Methodists came to contain ___________ of the nation’s professing Protestant,
North and South.
___________ was a Shakespearean actor targeted by a mob because of his refined and restrained style.
Southerners held jousting tournaments and other medieval events inspired by the work of __________.
Who was most interested in creating a public school system?
a. William Lloyd Garrison
b. Lydia Maria Child
c. Dorothea Dix
d. Horace Mann
e. Alexander Hamilton
Many Catholic parents refused to sent their children to public school because
a. They felt that the education received there was inadequate
b. The teachers were not qualified
c. Students were forced to recite Protestant prayers and read the Protestant Bible
d. They believed their children would be persecuted
e. They were too poor to buy their own supplies
Support for abolitionists came from which of the following regions?
a. Western New York
b. Southern New England
c. Northern Ohio
d. Northeastern cities
e. All of the above
The annual consumption of alcohol, which had reached an all-time high during the 1820s,
a. Was no longer perceived by the 1830s
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b. Remained roughly the same during the 1830s
c. Doubled during the 1830s
d. Quadrupled during the 1830s
e. Dropped by more than one-half during the 1830s
Sylvester Graham
a. Was a temperance lecturer who warned that dietary and sexual indulgence was unhealthy
b. Was the inventor of the telegram
c. Admired flamboyant, decadent political leaders like Andrew Jackson
d. Founded the first women’s college in the U.S
e. Called for public school reform
Tax supported public schools were known as ____________.
The first major race riot broke out in the U.S. in __________ in 1834
One of the most prominent forms of prison reform, attempting to both reform and reduce expenses, was the
__________.
_________ became the first state to limit the sale of alcohol through passage in 1838 of the Fifteen Gallon Law.
In the North the Whig party was grounded in the __________ revolution.