Chapter 8 Test Quizzes

1.

The First Bank of the United States was intended to

collect the nation's taxes.

stimulate economic growth by granting commercial credit.

replace state-chartered banks.

create a single national currency.

2.

The goods produced by New England farm families were

only sold locally.

sold in far-flung markets and door to door across the United States by peddlers.

inconsequential to the U.S. market economy.

of poor quality.

3.

Most American manufacturing took place

on slave plantations.

in homes.

in small-scale shops.

in large water-powered factories.

4.

The effects of the new market economy included

an increase in the economic independence of farm families.

a reduction in investment by American elites.

environmental pollution and longer work hours.

a reduction in industrial jobs.

5.

The 1795 Massachusetts Mill Dam Act

banned construction of new mills for a period of twenty years to protect current mill owners.

caused a rebellion by angry mill owners because of the infringement of their property rights.

overrode common law to safeguard the rights of millers and manufacturers at the expense of nearby landowners.

outlawed dams on waterways to ensure free navigation of rivers and streams.

6.

Originating in the Romantic movement in Europe, sentimentalism was reflected in the behavior of Americans in all of the following ways except

an increased emphasis on romantic love in marriage.

an increase in the expression of emotion in discussions of God and nature.

people responding emotionally to evangelical preachers.

the compulsion of some guilt-ridden masters to free their slaves.

7.

The American birthrate declined for all of the following reasons except

men and women married not for love but for the promise of money and social status.

many men had migrated to the West, leaving a considerable number of women in the East without marriage partners.

men and women delayed marriage and thus had fewer childbearing years left to them

married couples used birth control or abstained from sexual intercourse to limit family size.

8.

Which republican-minded American argued that women should receive intellectual training in order to be suitable companions for their husbands?

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Rush

John Adams

Washington Irving

9.

Republicanism transformed parenting for some couples by directing them to

focus entirely on religious instruction.

encourage self-control, responsibility, education, and independence in their children.

discipline their children intensely.

let children run free without supervision.

10.

In the early nineteenth century, Noah Webster argued for

religious instruction in schools.

the adoption of sentimentalism in American thought.

an emphasis on the "three Rs" in schools.

an end to American dependence on foreign influences in regard to language.

11.

The North and South

sent delegates to Britain in order to seek a resolution on the question of slavery.

in theory and in practice adopted different forms of republicanism.

became increasingly similar over time.

pursued a united front on the subject of slavery.

12.

Many northerners hoped that slavery would die out because of

congressional opposition to the admission of Missouri to the Union.

the movement of slaves into the Mississippi Valley.

the decline of the tobacco economy.

religious opposition.

13.

The American Colonization Society

sought to emancipate American slaves and settle them in the western states.

promoted the colonization of slaves throughout the South.

wished to emancipate southern slaves and send them, along with free blacks from the North, to Africa.

did not want to move free blacks from the North.

14.

The Missouri Compromise

was a complete failure because it led to war with Mexico.

prevented slavery from crossing the Mississippi River.

preserved the Union by accommodating regional interests.

denied emancipation to thousands of slaves who had fled to Missouri.

15.

The Second Great Awakening differed from the First Great Awakening in that it

concentrated on Calvinist doctrine.

generated interest in non-Calvinist denominations and created new organizations.

was promoted by existing churches.

was limited to white men.

16.

In the South, Methodist and Baptist evangelical preachers

adapted their sermons to support the rule of white, slaveholding planters.

avoided preaching to black slaves.

touted egalitarian religious structures despite the southern tendency toward aristocratic republicanism.

often used their own slaves to set up revival meetings.

17.

Black preachers emphasized those portions of scripture that

encouraged obedience to white masters.

promoted equality between the sexes.

affirmed the spiritual equality of all men, black or white.

encouraged violent revolt.

18.

The most famous Unitarian minister of the early nineteenth century was

George Whitefield.

Ezra Stiles Ely.

Lyman Beecher.

William Ellery Channing.

19.

The ideals of religious benevolence and disinterested virtue

emphasized the importance of giving charity to those predestined for salvation.

emphasized religious conversion.

linked individual salvation with social reform.

emphasized religious reform.

20.

Which of the following transportation develop- ments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830?

Canals and railroads

Clipper ships and turnpikes

Turnpikes and canals

Railroads and steamships

Turnpikes and railroads

21.

In the United States, the Haitian rebellion of the 1790's prompted

a military expedition of southern slaveholders to restore French rule in Haiti

the passage of a federal law increasing the severity of punishments for slave rebellions

an increased fear of slave revolts in the South

the acquisition of Puerto Rico for colonization by emancipated slaves

a movement of free African Americans to Haiti

22.

The Missouri Compromise did which of the following?

Provided for the annexation of Texas.

Allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state.

Finally settled the question of congressional power over slavery in the territories.

Prohibited slavery in all the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.

Provided for admission to the Union of all future states in pairs of one free, one slave.

23.

The goal of the American Colonization Society was to

promote western expansion by funding internal improvements

assimilate recent immigrants into American society

recruit immigrant labor for American factories

return freed slaves to Africa

extend United States influence to overseas colonies

24.

The Federalist papers challenged the conventional political wisdom of the eighteenth century when they asserted that

political parties were crucial to the success of the new government

a large republic offered the best protection of minority rights

limitations on the popular will led to tyranny

a republican form of government could suc- ceed only in small countries

a weak central government was the only guarantee of individual rights

25.

Alexander Hamilton's financial program consisted of all of the following EXCEPT

payment of state debts by the federal government

the collection of a federal excise tax on whisky

the creation of a U.S. bank

tariffs to protect infant U.S. industries

payment of subsidies to farmers

26.

The Second Great Awakening did which of the following?

It resulted in a sharp decline in church membership.

It produced increased respect for civil authority.

It increased Protestant toleration for Catholics and Jews

It encouraged conversion to evangelical Christianity.

It emphasized reason and logic over emotionalism in religious matters.

27.

The main goal of the American Colonization Society was to promote colonization in

the American West by eastern American Indians

Mexico by White Americans

Africa by Free Black persons and former slaves

Cuba by White Americans

the Mexican Cession by White Americans

28.

The American Colonization Society was estab- lished in the early nineteenth century with the goal of

encouraging immigration from Ireland and Germany

settling American Indians on reservations

settling White Americans on western lands

ncouraging Chinese contract laborers to emigrate to the United States

transporting African Americans to Africa