Mr. Desmond LSHS Fall 2010 Final Exam Review. Chapters 1-15.
Prison reform
Educational reform
The Mormons
The Oneida Community
Brook Farm
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Cyrus McCormick - The Clermont
Samuel Colt - Interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney - Reaper
Robert Fulton - Six Shooter
John Deere - Steel Plow
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Free blacks could not work for the U.S. Postal Service, claim public land, or hold a U.S. passport
Free blacks worked at low-wage jobs and were considered social inferiors to whites
Only a small number of free African Americans owned land
Only a few states extended the vote to free blacks
All of the above
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Mormonism
Puritanism
Presbyterianism
Unitarianism
Catholicism
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An improved network of national roads
Railroads
Steamboats
Trucking
Turnpikes
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An increase in the number of large factories
Better transportation networks
The national bank's loan policy
The national government's economic subsidies
Increased farm production
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National government initiatives
A religious revival movement
State government initiatives
An economic recession
Nativist pressures
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Washington and Quincy Adams
Van Buren and Adams
Madison and Tyler
Jefferson and Jackson
Washington and William Henry Harrison
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Created a class-divided society that challenged the founders' vision of an agrarian republic
Lowered the American per capita income by nearly 1 percent each year
Created a situation where everyday goods became luxury items
Decreased the living standard by nearly 30 percent in a single generation
Allowed workers to have more control over the pace and conditions of labor
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Revivalism
The Industrial Revolution
The labor movement
Nativism
The Waltham Plan
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The Alien and Sedition Acts
Minstrel shows
German-language shop signs
Temperance reformers
The Whig Party
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Forged economic ties between the North and the Midwest
Cost the government so much money that taxes were raised
Created great hardship for merchants who had to pay extra cost for transportation
Was only cost effective after many years
Caused the Panic of 1819
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States had the right to determine which congressional laws they would enforce
The people are the ultimate source of power for the national government
States cannot tax a a federal institution
The president has the right to nullify an act of Congress
The ends justify the means
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Nepotism
Patronage
Caucusing
The Whig System
Preemption
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Monroe
Madison
Jefferson
Jackson
Van Buren
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Had a rigid personality and high moral standards
Refused to play politics
Was John Adam's son
Was hostile to special privileges for business corporations
Was gregarious and hard working
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Support for a national bank
Cheap labor
Money capital to invest in their factories
New markets for their products
Profitable locations for outsourcing
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Protective tariff, slavery, and the national bank
Subsidized internal improvements, the national bank, and patronage
Slavery, patronage, and subsidized internal improvements
Protective tariff, patronage, and subsidized internal improvements
Protective tariff, subsidized internal improvements, and the national bank
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Dealings with native peoples
Support for average Americans
Treatment of the national bank
Views of patronage
Efforts to consolidate executive power
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The antebellum women's movement
Expansion of industry
Martin Van Buren get elected
Rein in conservative political thinking
End sectionalism
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It was subject to seasonal forest fires for over a decade
The westward movement was so intense, the migrants wore the grass off the earth, leaving a scorched appearance
It was home to many religious revivals and reform movements
Transcendentalism began there with a plea to purge commercialism from its followers' hearts
Charles Grandison Finney traveled to Rochester only to witness the city's greatest conflagration
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Francis Cabot Lowell
Samuel Slater
Paul Moody
Eli Whitney
Samuel Sellars Jr.
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The percentage of white families who held slaves in bondage continually increased between 1800 and 1860
Most white southerners owned slaves
Slave gangs prove to be less efficient than the traditional method
Five percent of southern whites owned fifty percent of the south's slave population
Slave conditions in Mississippi were superior to those of South Carolina
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The writings of Frederick Douglass
Blacks intermarried with Seminoles
Slaves in the lower South could flee to Florida
The efforts of Nat Turner
Blacks in the upper South could flee to the North
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Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co.
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Worcester v. Georgia
McCulloch v. Maryland
Brisco v. Bank of Kentucky
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Was a boon to public education
Hindered unionism
Impeded the growth of the temperance movement
Was welcomed in northeastern Pennsylvania
Was supported by Samuel F.B. Morse
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Its population was more literate than the North's
It brought a higher living standard for most Southerners
Yet its per capita income was still lower than that of the North
It led to a growth of textile producing towns in the South
So it was forced to build a vast network of roads, canals, and railroads to get the cotton to market
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Commercialized sex
Fashion consciousness
Popular entertainment
Slavery
Nativism
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Complex marriage
Rejection of monogamy
Celibacy
Equality of men and women
Silverware
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Some Cherokee Indians promoted it
It eliminated the Seminole Indians from Florida
It was precipitated by the Black Hawk's War
Congress passed it despite much public outcry
John Marshall upheld the act in Worcester v. Georgia
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The Declaration of Independence
The Bill of Rights
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
The Wilmot Proviso
The Webster-Hayne Debate
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By the 1850s, thousands of slaves profited from an underground economy
Though much feared, resistance rarely occurred
To increase their numbers, there was much inbreeding among the slave population
Slaves' diets consisted mostly of buttermilk biscuits and beans but rarely any meat
Slaves eschewed family life because of the fear of separation
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A court case
State mandates
The U.S. Constitution
Missouri's application for statehood
Congressional legislation
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A wave of European immigration to the south
The redistribution of the African American population
The beginnings of a manumission movement in the South
An increase in the legal importation of slaves
Federal laws enhancing the slave trade
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Many southern states passed laws against racially mixed marriages
The freehold system in the northern colonies
There was much miscegenation
Republican equality originated as a southern objective
Leisler's Rebellion proved that slave revolts would not be tolerated by Southerners, slave owners or not
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Democratic policy
Egalitarian society
Professional politicians
Universal suffrage
Inequality
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It hindered the prosperity of central and western New York, as travelers would bypass those areas for points west
It accelerated the flow of goods but the transportation costs were so high that in many cases the trip was unprofitable
A barge could only travel twelve miles a day
It was so expensive to build, it took nearly a decade to repay its cost
It adversely altered the ecology and the economy of the region
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The Bible
The U.S. Constitution
Economic necessity
Paternalism
Moral Superiority
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Prevent riots
Get votes
Deter westward migration
Give women a greater say
Attract immigrant laborers
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