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Growth and Division
DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item in Column A with the items in Column B.
Write the correct letters in the blanks. (3 points each)
Column A
Column B
1. took the Clermont 150 miles up the Hudson River
A. Francis C. Lowell
2. served aboard a privateer in his teens, later worked as a
maker of sails, and by age 32 owned a thriving sail factory
B. Robert Fulton
3. transformed gun-making into a factory process
D. Samuel F.B. Morse
4. rose from slavery to become a prominent leader of the
antislavery movement
5. built an American locomotive engine
6. led an armed uprising that killed more than 50 white
people before he was caught and hanged
7. amassed a fortune in New Orleans by retailing imported
dry goods
8. introduced mass production of cotton cloth to the U.S.
C. Peter Cooper
E. Eli Whitney
F.
Denmark Vesey
G. Frederick
Douglass
H. James Forten
I.
Nat Turner
J.
Cecee McCarty
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9. perfected the telegraph in 1832
10. was accused of planning an armed revolt to free the
region’s slaves, but was tried, convicted, and hanged
before the revolt started
DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Choose the item that best completes each sentence or
answers each question. Write the letter in the blank. (4 points each)
11. Supreme Court rulings in three important cases between 1816 and 1824
shaped the future of American government by establishing the
A. dominance of the judicial branch over the legislature.
B. rights of states to regulate interstate commerce.
C. Supreme Court as the nation’s top lawmaking body.
D. dominance of the nation over the states.
12. The steamboat was an improvement over barges because it could
A. carry more cargo.
C. provide onboard entertainment.
B. travel upstream.
D. navigate smaller rivers.
13. Which of the following was NOT true of the first locomotives?
A. They traveled much faster than stagecoaches or wagons.
B. They were a clean and comfortable way to travel.
C. They could go anywhere track was laid.
D. They helped expand trade between the nation’s different regions.
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14. The Boston Manufacturing Company, a huge textile mill, employed
mostly women and children because
A. their small fingers were well suited to spinning cloth.
B. they would work for lower wages than men.
C. the company wanted to help families who needed more than one income.
D. the company could not find enough men to fill all the available jobs.
15. Cities grew in the United States during industrialization because
A. the excitement of city life drew people from farms and villages.
B. the more challenging factory jobs lured people away from farm work.
C. the higher wages of factory jobs drew people from farms and villages.
D. the higher standard of living offered to factory workers drew people from farms.
16. A cotton gin
A. picks cotton.
B. spins cotton into cloth.
C. removes cotton seeds.
D. bales cotton.
17. Which social group best completes the diagram?
A. planters without slaves
C. yeoman farmers
B. factory workers
D. ranchers
Southern Class
Structure
Planters
19. John Quincy Adams won the presidency in 1824 because
A. he won the most popular votes.
C. he won the election in the Senate.
B. he won the majority of votes in the
D. he won the election in the House of
Electoral College.
Representatives.
20. After the 1824 election, supporters of Jackson labeled themselves as
Democrats, while Clay and his supporters formed a new party called the
A. National Republicans.
C. Democratic-Federalists.
B. Democratic-Republicans.
D. Republican Federalists.
DIRECTIONS: Essay Answer one of the following questions on a separate sheet of
paper. (10 points)
21. What was the Monroe Doctrine and why was it important?
22. Describe the legal status of enslaved people under state slave codes.
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18. According to an accepted amendment to the
Rural Poor
Missouri Compromise, slavery
A. could expand into the Arkansas territory but
African Americans
not to the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.
B. could not expand into any other western territories.
C. could expand into the Great Plains but not to the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.
D. would be allowed in a new state only if a free state entered the Union at the
same time.
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DIRECTIONS: Graphics and Document-Based Questions Choose the item that best
completes each sentence or answers each question. Write the letter of the item in the
blank to the left of the question. (4 points each)
F1790
F1805
1793
Eli Whitney invents
the cotton gin
1808
Congress bans international slave trade
F1820
1822
Denmark Vesey
executed
F1835
1831
Nat Turner rebellion
23. Which event depicted on the time line above would have far-reaching,
worldwide humanitarian benefits?
A. Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
B. Nat Turner’s rebellion strikes terror in the hearts of slavery supporters.
C. Congress officially bans the international slave trade.
D. Denmark Vesey is betrayed by one of his rebellion supporters, which leads to his
execution.
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“I know that sometimes the confinement of the mill became very wearisome to me. In the sweet June
weather I would lean far out the window, and try not to hear the unceasing clash of the sound inside.
Looking away to the hills, my whole stifled being would cry out, ‘Oh, that I had wings!’”
—Lucy Larcom, quoted in Ordinary Americans
24. Judging by the quotation, how did Lucy Larcom feel about her work in
the factory?
A. Lucy felt imprisoned in the mill and by her work.
B. She wished for some noise to break up the silent monotony of work.
C. Lucy relished her work and the sounds of the factory.
D. She was invigorated by her work and the factory environment.
“As far as the eye can stretch in the distance nothing but corn and wheat fields are to be seen; and
on some points in the Scioto Valley as high as a thousand acres of corn may be seen in adjoining fields,
belonging to some eight or ten different proprietors.”
—reporter traveling through Ohio in 1841, quoted in A History of the United States
25. In this reporter’s description of Ohio, abundant crops of corn and wheat
are seen almost as far as the eye can see. The crops are
A. products of eight to ten different farmers.
B. as high as eight or ten acres of wheat.
C. the property of the Scioto Valley.
D. located on acreage belonging to the state.
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DIRECTIONS: Short Answer Answer each of the following questions on a separate
sheet of paper. (4 points each)
Bales of Cotton
Cotton Production in the South
4,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
0
1792 1801 1840 1860
26. According to the chart, what changes occurred in the number of bales of cotton
produced in the South from 1792 to 1860?
MAJOR CASH CROPS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES
MARYLAND
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VIRGINIA
NORTH
CAROLINA
KENTUCKY
TENNESSEE
SOUTH
CAROLINA
MI
ALABAMA
IS
SS
GEORGIA
I
P
SIP
TEXAS
LOUISIANA
IDA
OR
FL
RICE
COTTON
TOBACCO
SUGARCANE
27. As shown on the above map of the major cash crops of the Southern states,
which states found it economically advantageous to grow tobacco?
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Growth and Division
DIRECTIONS: Matching The diagram shows three important Supreme Court cases.
Match the rulings and their significance in Column A to the cases in the diagram.
Write the correct letters from the diagram in the blanks. (3 points each)
Column A
Court Case
1. Helped establish the Supreme Court as
the nation’s court of final appeal
2. Interstate commerce now meant that
anything crossing state boundaries
came under federal control
3. Ruled that a company’s state-granted
monopoly over steamboat traffic in an
area was unconstitutional
4. Ruled that a Virginia law conflicted with the
Treaty of Paris, which recommended the
states restore confiscated property to Loyalists
Ruling
Significance
McCulloch v.
Maryland
A
B
Gibbons v.
Ogden
C
D
Martin v.
Hunter’s Lessee
E
F
5. Ruled that a national bank was constitutional and that a state may not tax it
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6. The Constitution’s “necessary and proper” clause was interpreted to
mean that the government could use any method for carrying out its
powers as long as the method was not expressly forbidden
DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item in Column A with the items in Column B.
Write the correct letters in the blanks. (3 points each)
Column A
Column B
7. taxed imports to drive up their prices
8. allowed machines to turn out large quantities of identical
pieces that workers assembled into finished products
9. organization that usually focused on a single trade in the
late 1820s and early 1830s
10. extended from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia
A. interchangeable
parts
B. labor union
C. protective tariff
D. National Road
DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Choose the item that best completes each sentence or
answers each question. Write the letter in the blank. (4 points each)
11. The Tariff of 1816 nurtured American manufacturers by
A. taxing imports.
C. banning certain imports.
B. taxing exports.
D. banning certain exports.
12. In the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, Spain
A. ceded New Mexico to the U.S.
B. ceded Florida to the U.S.
C. agreed to control the Seminoles.
D. agreed to end slavery.
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13. The limited liability provision of incorporation laws meant that
A. a corporation would not have to repay its debts if it went bankrupt.
B. the debts a bankrupt corporation would owe was limited to the worth of its stock.
C. a bankrupt corporation’s tax liability was limited to the worth of its stock.
D. a person who bought stock in a corporation would not be responsible for the
company’s debts if it went bankrupt.
14. What transportation project from Albany to Buffalo was completed in 1825?
A. Wilderness Road
C. National Road
B. Albany Turnpike
D. Erie Canal
15. In the case Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Supreme Court ruled that
A. union strikes were legal.
C. labor organizing was illegal.
B. child labor was illegal.
D. a workday of 10 hours was legal.
16. A planter was a white male who
A. owned a plantation.
B. made a living from agriculture.
C. owned an enslaved person.
D. held 20 or more enslaved people.
17. The two labor systems used to organize enslaved African Americans were the
A. task and group systems.
C. driver and task systems.
B. driver and gang systems.
D. task and gang systems.
19. In the election of 1824, supporters of Andrew Jackson accused John Quincy
Adams of winning through a “corrupt bargain,” in which Adams gave
A. Henry Clay a bribe.
C. William Crawford a bribe.
B. Henry Clay a cabinet post.
D. William Crawford a government job.
20. As president, John Quincy Adams wanted to
A. expand the use of federal funds for internal improvements.
B. restrict the use of federal funds for internal improvements.
C. leave funding of internal improvements to the states.
D. leave funding of internal improvements to private businesses.
DIRECTIONS: Essay Answer one of the questions on a separate sheet of paper. (10 points)
21. What basic developments characterized the Industrial Revolution?
22. What are some ways in which enslaved men and women opposed the dreadful
lifestyle forced upon them?
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18. The solution that emerged in the Missouri Compromise was to admit Missouri
A. and Maine as slave states.
B. as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
C. as a slave state but prohibit slavery in the rest of the western territories.
D. as a slave state and ban free African Americans from entering the state.
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DIRECTIONS: Graphics and Document-Based Questions Choose the item that best
completes each sentence or answers each question. Write the letter of the item in the
blank to the left of the question. (4 points each)
F1790
F1805
1793
Eli Whitney invents
the cotton gin
1808
Congress bans international slave trade
F1820
1822
Denmark Vesey
executed
F1835
1831
Nat Turner rebellion
23. When did Nat Turner lead his slave rebellion?
A. 1831
C. 1822
B. 1808
D. 1793
“I know that sometimes the confinement of the mill became very wearisome to me. In the sweet June
weather I would lean far out the window, and try not to hear the unceasing clash of the sound inside.
Looking away to the hills, my whole stifled being would cry out, ‘Oh, that I had wings!’”
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—Lucy Larcom, quoted in Ordinary Americans
24. Based on the chapter content, what environment is Lucy Larcom MOST
LIKELY describing in this quote?
A. a prison cell
C. the workshop in her home
B. a windmill
D. work in a factory
“As far as the eye can stretch in the distance nothing but corn and wheat fields are to be seen; and
on some points in the Scioto Valley as high as a thousand acres of corn may be seen in adjoining fields,
belonging to some eight or ten different proprietors.”
—reporter traveling through Ohio in 1841, quoted in A History of the United States
25. When the reporter who wrote this excerpt described the Scioto Valley in
1841, he was trying to portray a
A. Northern state that was fertile and bore the fruits of the labor of hardworking
farmers.
B. Southern state that was fertile and made a great deal of money for plantation
owners.
C. Southern scene where only a few farms were profitable and the rest barely
survived.
D. Northern scene where only a few farmers had access to the land and because of
that, only two kinds of crops were grown.
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DIRECTIONS: Short Answer Answer each of the following questions on a separate
sheet of paper. (4 points each)
Bales of Cotton
Cotton Production in the South
4,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
0
1792 1801 1840 1860
26. According to this chart, how many bales of cotton were produced in the South in
the years 1801 and 1860, respectively?
MAJOR CASH CROPS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES
MARYLAND
TENNESSEE
SOUTH
CAROLINA
I
IPP
ISS
SS
MI
TEXAS
ALABAMA
GEORGIA
LOUISIANA
A
RID
O
FL
RICE
COTTON
TOBACCO
SUGARCANE
27. What two major cash crops of the Southern states were grown in both South
Carolina and Georgia, as shown on the map?
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VIRGINIA
NORTH
CAROLINA
KENTUCKY