Chapter 13 Practice
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. What led to the flood of Irish immigrants entering the United States in the mid-1840s?
a. a potato blight in Ireland that led to starvation and disease
b. the unsafe working conditions in Irish factories
c. the Irish government’s ban on the practice of Catholicism
d. a revolution in Ireland that had turned violent and dangerous
2. In 1848, the German people staged a revolution against their government. How did this revolution affect
German immigration to the U.S. in the late 1840s?
a. Germans came to the U.S. to try to gain support for the revolution taking place in their
country.
b. Many Germans came to the U.S. because the revolution did not appear to be coming to an
end soon.
c. Germans came to the U.S. because their revolution did not bring about any changes to the
government.
d. Many Germans came to the U.S. to escape punishment for rising up against the
government.
3. The trend of immigrants residing in cities led to the growth of urban areas in the U.S. in the mid-1800s. What
other trend contributed to the growth of American cities?
a. the growth of recreational activities in the U.S.
b. the growth of the transportation revolution in the U.S.
c. the decline in the quality of life in suburbs in the U.S.
d. the decline of farming in the U.S.
4. Why did the populations of cities in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. grow most rapidly
during the mid-1800s?
a. Citizens in these regions tended to be more accepting of immigrants.
b. More than half of the country’s manufacturing jobs were located in these regions.
c. Immigrants entering the country had easy access to these regions.
d. These regions had the most fertile land for farming and growing cash crops.
5. Many transcendentalists began to form utopian communities in the 19th century. Utopian communities were
communities
a. that tried to form perfect societies.
b. based on the principles of individualism.
c. that were male dominated.
d. based on the principles of religious control.
6. In transcendentalist Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Fuller stated that women should
a. continue to play the roles of wife and homemaker.
b. be able to make independent choices about their lives.
c. not challenge the existing laws and rules in America.
d. be given the right to vote in America.
7. How did the American Romantic movement affect art in the U.S.?
a. Artists began to include traditional European landscapes and ideas.
b. Artists began to show their appreciation for the beauty and wonder of nature.
c. Artists began to express contempt for corruption in the American government.
d. Artists began to portray the effects of urbanization on the American landscape.
8. Which of the following ideas did Walt Whitman often include in his poetry?
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a. the importance of organized religion to American society
b. the importance of dependence on others for survival
c. the importance of rational and logical thought
d. the importance of individualism and democracy to American society
In 1851, American Romantic author Herman Melville explored the theme of the individual’s struggle against
nature in his novel about a sea captain’s battle with a giant whale. What was the name of this novel?
a. Moby Dick
c. Billy Budd
b. The Scarlet Letter
d. Leaves of Grass
How did the Second Great Awakening affect African American society in the U.S.?
a. Many African Americans became discouraged with religion because the religious
movement did not include their culture.
b. Many African Americans were inspired to start reform movements that focused on
obtaining their civil rights.
c. Many African Americans became ministers and their churches spread across the Middle
Atlantic States.
d. Many African Americans converted to religions that had traditionally been practiced by
white Americans.
In the early 1800s, why did some social reformers want to limit the consumption of alcohol in America?
a. They felt that alcohol abuse led to social problems, such as crime and poverty.
b. They felt that the increased production of alcohol was putting a strain on America’s
economy.
c. They felt that alcohol was a dangerous substance with unknown side effects.
d. They felt that the increased consumption of alcohol led to a decrease in religious faith
among Americans.
How did American reform leaders propose to solve the problem of alcohol abuse in the U.S. in the 1800s?
a. They wanted to conduct classes to show alcohol abusers the effects of alcohol on the body.
b. They wanted the government to pass a bill stating that it was against the law to consume
alcohol.
c. They wanted people to eliminate the use of hard liquor and limit the consumption of wine
and beer.
d. They wanted to completely end the production and distribution of alcohol in America.
How did reformer Dorothea Dix contribute to the prison reform movement in the early 1800s?
a. She spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate
facilities for the mentally ill.
b. She founded an organization of women that worked together to provide education for
criminals in prisons.
c. She organized many protests in hopes of motivating the government to build separate
facilities for child offenders.
d. She brought America’s attention to the need for prison reform by writing novels detailing
the condition of prisons.
Who was the leader of the common-school movement?
a. Dorothea Dix
c. Catherine Beecher
b. Horace Mann
d. Thomas Gallaudet
Which of these was not a problem with public education in the U.S. in the 1800s?
a. Teachers received little training to complete their jobs.
b. Schoolhouses were small and all grades usually worked in one room.
c. The availability of education in some regions was low.
d. There were no materials developed for schools to use to instruct students.
What did northern African Americans center their communities around in the mid-1800s?
a. the increased number of African American leaders in the North
b. the African American antislavery movement in the North
c. the growing number of African American churches
d. the schools and universities created for African Americans
____ 17. Which of these summarizes the contributions made by Catherine Beecher to the education reform movement
in the U.S. in the mid-1800s?
a. She founded an all-female academy and wrote many essays stressing the importance
women’s education.
b. She fought for improvements in the training of teachers and the quality of educational
materials in the U.S.
c. She lobbied Congress to increase the budget of public schools and to lengthen the school
year for students.
d. She opened the first university in the U.S. focused on the education and enlightenment of
women.
____ 18. How did William Lloyd Garrison spread the abolitionist message throughout the U.S. in the mid-1800s?
a. He founded and ran an antislavery newspaper called the Liberator.
b. He wrote many novels and essays about the injustices of slavery.
c. He traveled around the country giving lectures about the evils of slavery.
d. He started the American Colonization Society to help slaves obtain freedom.
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“On the first of January, 1834, I left Mr. Covey, and went to live with Mr. William Freeland, who
lived about three miles from St. Michael's. I soon found Mr. Freeland a very different man from
Mr. Covey. Mr. Covey, as I have shown, was a well-trained negro-breaker and slave-driver. The
former (slaveholder though he was) seemed to possess some regard for honor, some reverence for
justice, and some respect for humanity. The latter seemed totally insensible to all such
sentiments.”
The excerpt above is from Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Which of the
following information from the excerpt could not be verified by another source?
a. Mr. Freeland used slaves to complete labor in 1834.
b. Mr. Freeland brought Douglass to his home in 1834.
c. Mr. Freeland was more honorable than Mr. Covey.
d. Mr. Freeland lived three miles from St. Michaels.
____ 20. What contribution did Harriet Tubman make to the antislavery movement?
a. She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad who led many fugitive slaves to
freedom.
b. She lectured members of the American Anti-Slavery Society about the evils of slavery.
c. She wrote many essays persuading southern slaveholders to join the abolition movement.
d. She founded an antislavery group in the South that staged many peaceful protests
boycotting slavery.
____ 21. How did Angelina and Sarah Grimké participate in the abolitionist movement?
a. They helped found the colony of Liberia and led many slaves to safety in this free
territory.
b. They founded the American Anti-Slavery Society and recruited many northern whites to
join.
c. They provided jobs and financial support to many fugitive slaves living in the North.
d. They wrote essays and made passionate appeals to other southern white women to join the
movement.
____ 22. What was the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
a. It forced the government to recognize women’s rights in the U.S.
b. It began the organized women’s rights movement in the U.S.
c. It granted women the right to participate in the voting process in the U.S.
d. It revealed the need for social and educational reforms in the U.S.
____ 23. Which two women organized the Seneca Falls Convention?
a. Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony
b. Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony
c. Lucy Stone and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
____ 24. Which reform movement in the U.S. in the mid-1800s inspired the women’s rights movement?
a. the temperance movement
c. the abolitionist movement
b. the education reform movement
d. the prison reform movement
____ 25. Which of the following was not a pull factor for immigration to the United States?
a. housing
c. freedom
b. jobs
d. land
____ 26. Some nativists feared
a. paying high prices for farmland.
b. moving to cities to work.
c. losing their jobs to immigrants.
d. leaving their countries.
____ 27. The people who profited most from the rise of industry and the growth of cities were
a. child laborers.
c. tenement dwellers.
b. new immigrants.
d. the middle class.
Completion
Complete each statement.
28. Representative and former President ____________________ suggested a constitutional amendment to halt
the expansion of slavery.
29. ____________________ claimed that God had called her to travel through the United States, preaching about
slavery and women’s rights.
30. Margaret Fuller used democratic and transcendentalist principles to stress the importance
of____________________ to all people, especially women.
31. Susan B. Anthony argued that people should receive equal pay for equal ___________________.
Matching
In the space provided, write the letter of the term or place that matches each description. Some answers will
not be used.
a. common-school movement
g. Midwest
b. Dorothea Dix
h. public services
c. Emerson and Thoreau
i. Romanticism
d. Free African Religious Society
j. Second Great Awakening
e. Hawthorne and Longfellow
k. Transcendentalism
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l. utopian communities
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Groups of people who tried to form a perfect society
Belief that people could rise above the material things in life
Philosophy that emphasizes individual expression, nature, and rejection of established rules
Organization founded by Richard Allen to press for racial equality and the education of African Americans
Chapter 13 Practice
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