Deck 9: The Transformation of American Society, 1815-1840

Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Gibbons v. Ogden

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Erie Canal

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Five Civilized Tribes

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Andrew Jackson

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Speculators, squatters

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Black Hawk

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Old Northwest, Old Southwest

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John Jacob Astor

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Market Economy

Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Alexis de Tocqueville

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Transportation revolution

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Robert Fulton and the Clermont

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. "Trail of Tears"

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. "Alabama Fever"

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Indian Removal Act

Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Samuel Slater

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Panic of 1819

Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Bank of the United States

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. National Road

Question 21

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. African Methodist Episcopal Church

Question 22

Who founded the fur-trading post in Astoria, Oregon?

A) Meriwether Lewis
B) Kit Carson
C) John Jacob Astor
D) Jedediah Smith
E) George Stewart

Question 23

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Horizontal allegiances

Question 24

What was the direction of the population movement that took place between 1790 and 1840?

A) From the North to the South
B) From the Atlantic coast to the areas between the Appalachians and the Mississippi
C) From New England to California
D) From the Old Northwest back to New England
E) From the Pacific Northwest back to the Great Plains

Question 25

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. "Middling classes"

Question 26

Which of the following did not stimulate westward settlement?

A) Military bounties
B) Building the National Road
C) The growing strength of the federal government
D) Admission of new states into the Union
E) Federal support of existing Indian settlements

Question 27

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Voluntary association

Question 28

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Waltham and Lowell mills

Question 29

Which of the following was not one of the developments that took place in the United States after the War of 1812?

A) Improvements in transportation
B) Growth of interregional trade and migration
C) Slowing of economic growth
D) Growth of towns
E) Massive uprooting of Native American populations

Question 30

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. "Outwork"

Question 31

Black Hawk was an Indian leader who led resistance in

A) Florida.
B) Illinois.
C) Georgia.
D) New York.
E) Michigan.

Question 32

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the typical pioneer settlers?

A) They migrated as families.
B) They craved sociability.
C) They sought stability and security.
D) They tended to cluster with people who hailed from the same region back east.
E) They were wild and restless individualists.

Question 33

Who wrote Democracy in America ?

A) Frederick Jackson Turner
B) Alexis de Tocqueville
C) Gustave de Beaumont
D) George Stevenson
E) James Fenimore Cooper

Question 34

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Eli Whitney

Question 35

Which of the following tribes was not one of the Five Civilized Tribes?

A) Cherokees
B) Choctaws
C) Creeks
D) Huron
E) Seminoles

Question 36

What did the military bounties awarded during the War of 1812 provide?

A) Soldiers would receive western land in exchange for military service.
B) Soldiers were paid cash bonuses for enlisting.
C) Soldiers were given cash bonuses for each new recruit they could find.
D) Soldiers were paid for each British soldier they captured.
E) Soldiers would receive an early discharge if they recruited an agreed-upon number of new soldiers.

Question 37

What was the purpose of the National Road?

A) to provide work for veterans of the War of 1812.
B) to facilitate westward migration.
C) to encourage a political alliance between Virginia and Illinois.
D) to permit easy troop movements across America in the event of war.
E) to enable the president to reach Washington easily.

Question 38

How did Samuel Slater transform American economic life?

A) He introduced the assembly line system to factories.
B) He proposed the use of immigrants as a labor supply.
C) He integrated the steam engine with the factory production process.
D) He helped design and built the country's first cotton mill.
E) He organized the first joint-stock company in American history.

Question 39

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Doctrine of separate spheres

Question 40

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. vertical allegiances

Question 41

What was Alabama fever?

A) an outbreak of yellow fever that devastated settlers in the 1820s.
B) a land rush in Alabama that caused the price of land to skyrocket.
C) an illness that affected mainly Native Americans that forced them to move elsewhere.
D) an epidemic that began as a bird influenza.
E) None of these choices

Question 42

In Gibbons v. Ogden the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had the authority to

A) regulate navigation on rivers.
B) expel Indians from within state borders.
C) limit trade with foreign countries.
D) buy and sell public lands.
E) cancel state financial obligations.

Question 43

What was the first major canal project in the United States?

A) The Blackstone Canal
B) The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
C) The Panama Canal
D) The Connecticut and Berkshire Canal
E) The Erie Canal

Question 44

In 1838, why did thousands of Cherokees move from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma?

A) They were too ignorant and depraved to remain in a civilized section of the country.
B) They were forced to move by the federal government.
C) They longed to rejoin their cousins, who had moved west in the 17^th century.
D) They were pawns in diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Spain.
E) They were fleeing from the floods and crop failures that had devastated the Southeast.

Question 45

What was the economic status of most people in antebellum America?

A) Wealthy
B) Upper class
C) Middling
D) Destitute
E) Bankrupt

Question 46

The Waltham and Lowell textile mills were more advanced than the mills established by Samuel Slater because they, unlike the Slater mills, produced

A) yarn.
B) finished fabrics.
C) sheets of cloth.
D) colored cloth.
E) multilayered cloth.

Question 47

Which of the following is not a principle drawn from Chief Justice John Marshall's decisions on federal Indian policy?

A) Native Americans had a right to their land because of prolonged occupancy.
B) Native Americans were entitled to federal protection.
C) They were to be considered a domestic dependent nation.
D) They were, essentially, a republic within Georgia.
E) Native Americans were a distinct political community.

Question 48

In Worcester v. Georgia , the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation

A) was a distinct political community and entitled to federal protection from Georgia's claims.
B) was subject to federal but not state laws.
C) was not protected by the Constitution.
D) was bound by state laws.
E) could sue individuals but not the state government.

Question 49

What impact did the Erie Canal have on New York City?

A) It forced New York to support other canal projects.
B) It turned New York into the nation's largest city.
C) It affect New York very little since the canal was connected to Boston.
D) It caused New York to build a new bureaucratic structure to manage the canal.
E) It enabled immigrants arriving in New York to move South much quicker.

Question 50

New England became America's first industrial region in part because it had

A) only a few rivers to interfere with transportation.
B) an influx of foreign capital.
C) a surplus of young women to work in the mills.
D) a surplus of young men returning from fur trapping in the West.
E) a commercial economy that had been devastated by trade wars.

Question 51

Which conclusion did Americans not draw from the Panic of 1819?

A) Banks could not be trusted.
B) American industries had to be protected against foreign competition.
C) Farmers had become entrepreneurs.
D) Farmers had become dependent on distant markets over which they had little control.
E) Land speculation could be financially risky.

Question 52

Squatters

A) tended to gobble up all available public land.
B) exerted a restraining influence on the land speculator.
C) lobbied for a stronger Indian removal policy.
D) brought about the Panic of 1819.
E) were removed from the West by new federal land policy enacted in 1841.

Question 53

Which of the following is not true of the Cherokee Indians?

A) They were one of the Five Civilized Tribes.
B) They supported the movement of Indians out of the South.
C) They included an influential minority of mixed-bloods who embraced Christianity and owned slaves.
D) They published their own newspaper.
E) They engaged in agriculture.

Question 54

The purpose of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was to

A) eliminate barriers to Indian unity.
B) encourage Georgia to establish Indian schools.
C) remove Indians from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
D) move them from land needed to construct canals.
E) facilitate white settlement on Indian lands.

Question 55

Which of the following statements is the best description of federal land policy from 1790 to 1820?

A) Federalists encouraged sales of large blocks of land to speculators, whereas Republicans favored selling federal land in smaller tracts to less wealthy buyers.
B) A political consensus kept land policy above partisan or sectional politics.
C) Federal land policy was consistent throughout the period.
D) Federal land was sold off to the highest bidder, usually railroad and canal interests.
E) The federal government allowed the states total control over the distribution of public lands.

Question 56

Early American steamboats

A) became ornate and luxurious.
B) took the lead in voluntary safety precautions.
C) were used mainly on the transatlantic routes, but were uneconomical in river trade.
D) were subsidized by the federal government.
E) were unpopular methods of transportation because they were slow and uncomfortable.

Question 57

What unintended consequence did the Embargo Act of 1807 produce?

A) It forced American ship builders to develop improved technology.
B) It increased American trade with South America.
C) It led to the development of a railroad connecting the cities on the eastern seaboard.
D) It stimulated merchants to invest their capital into domestic factories.
E) It persuaded the British to end their blockade.

Question 58

Outwork was

A) any employment that required you to be outside.
B) the process of coloring cloth.
C) a manufacturing system where a merchant distributed raw materials to individuals and paid them to make a finished product.
D) a new manufacturing process where raw materials were distributed to specific factories for production.
E) the new urban sanitation movement that transformed American cities in the 1830s.

Question 59

Which of the following commodities was a major agricultural product of the Old Southwest?

A) Wheat
B) Apples
C) Oranges
D) Corn
E) Cotton

Question 60

What was one of the major changes that took place in American towns and cities between 1820 and 1860?

A) Western towns declined as more people moved to farms.
B) Towns grew rapidly, especially in the West.
C) River cities rose to prominence while lake cities declined.
D) Cities tended to grow up on the open plains of the West.
E) Eastern cities declined, as more people moved to the West.

Question 61

How did the rise of the market economy affect where Americans lived and how they made their living?

Question 62

Describe the transportation revolution in the first half of the 19^th century. What changes occurred in transportation? Why? How did these changes affect the American economy?

Question 63

What caused the rise of industrialization?

Question 64

What caused the upsurge of westward migration after the War of 1812?

Question 65

Major changes took place within the family unit during the antebellum period. Discuss those changes, with specific reference to relations between parents and children, and husbands and wives.

Question 66

Why did horizontal allegiances develop in the period between 1815 and 1840? What functions did "voluntary associations" fulfill during that time?

Question 67

How did the changing economy affect the following groups in antebellum America: artisans, unmarried women, middling classes, and free northern blacks?

Question 68

Which of the following best describes crop and land use patterns in the United States by the 1830s?

A) In New England, industry languished in the post-war depression, causing a revival of New England agriculture.
B) Small farmers moved to the South and large planters moved to the Old Northwest.
C) The Old Northwest boomed with land development and wheat production.
D) In the Old Southwest, cotton growing skyrocketed while land prices plummeted.
E) The 1830s saw a revival of the small family farm.

Question 69

Explore the agricultural boom after the War of 1812. What happened to agricultural production and prices? How did the federal government facilitate the growth? Why did the boom ultimately end?

Question 70

During the pre-Civil War period,

A) horizontal allegiances tended to replace vertical allegiances;
B) vertical allegiances tended to replace horizontal allegiances;
C) families became more patriarchal;
D) workers in large textile mills discovered that they had a great deal in common with their managers and overseers
E) government programs tended to crowd out voluntary associations in most communities

Question 71

Analyze the causes and consequences of the Panic of 1819. What events and/or issues led to the economic downturn? What were the direct effects of the panic on the American economy? How did it change Americans' views of issues involving the economy like banks?

Question 72

Why did the federal government pursue a policy of Indian removals? Which Indian tribes in particular were affected? How had their lives changed by the 1840s?

Question 73

What caused urban poverty in this period?

Question 74

What were the causes and patterns of industrialization in the United States after the War of 1812? Why did industrialization begin in New England?

Question 75

What did the intense antebellum criticism of lawyers, physicians, ministers, and other professionals indicate about America?

A) People no longer had need for doctors.
B) People were becoming less religious.
C) Americans were inclined to question authority.
D) Professional schools were undergoing a crisis and needed to reform their curricula.
E) Professional corruption had reached new peaks.

Question 76

The doctrine of "separate spheres" suggested that many Antebellum Americans believed that

A) children and parents should not mingle.
B) men were superior in worldly pursuits, while women were superior for their moral influence.
C) moral issues should be determined by the church, while economic issues should be determined by the family.
D) business affairs were best conducted in the factory and the office, and workers had no role in making decisions.
E) Indians and Americans of European ancestry should be allowed to live in separate regions of the country.

Question 77

During the antebellum period, what happened to the birthrate among native-born white women?

A) It declined.
B) It rose slightly.
C) It remained the same.
D) It rose dramatically.
E) none of these choices

Question 78

Describe working conditions in early American factories. Compare New York and Philadelphia factories with the Lowell and Waltham mills. How did workers react to the new factory system?

Question 79

Compare and contrast the typical pioneer with the legendary "mountain men." How were western customs and society different from eastern customs and society?

Question 80

Which of the following changes in marriage patterns did not occur in the antebellum period?

A) Romantic love had a greater role in marriage decisions.
B) More women married out of birth order.
C) Fewer couples had lengthy engagements.
D) Young people had greater control over courtship and marriage.
E) More women chose not to marry.