Chapter 9 Quiz

According to John O'Sullivan, the "manifest destiny" of the United States to occupy North America could be traced to:

America's first commercial railroad was the:

At the Lowell textile mills:

During the first half of the nineteenth century, individualism:

For which one of the following did nativists NOT blame immigrants in the 1840s?

Henry David Thoreau believed that:

How did the market revolution affect the lives of artisans?

In an 1837 case involving the Charles River in Massachusetts, Chief Justice Roger Taney:

In his essay "The Laboring Classes," Orestes Brownson argued that:

Most of the states that entered the Union in the six years immediately following the War of 1812 were located:

Samuel Slater:

Squatters:

The "American System of manufactures":

The "German triangle" in the mid-nineteenth century referred to:

The American railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century:

The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in:

The cult of domesticity:

The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest?

The Erie Canal:

The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was:

The majority of the nearly 4 million immigrants that entered the United States between 1840 and 1860 were from:

The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to:

The transcendentalist movement:

The women who protested during the Shoemakers' Strike in Lynn compared their condition to that of:

What city was known as "porkopolis" because of its slaughterhouses that butchered and processed hundreds of thousands of pigs each year?

What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s?

What helped to encourage Richard Allen to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church?

What improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?

What problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?

What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

What was the significance of Robert Fulton?

Which denomination enjoyed the largest membership in the United States by the 1840s?

Which one of the following is NOT an example of the significance of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?

Which one of the following was NOT a way in which westward movement affected the South?

Women who worked at the Lowell mills: