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Chapter 11 Summative Quiz

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1. What effect did the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 have on the state of New York?

Rochester became the state’s fastest-growing city, even outpacing New York City.

Thousands of immigrants were inspired to leave New York State for Canada.

People were pushed out of the countryside and into New York City.

Rochester, New York, was thrust into economic depression.

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2. What traditional leisure activity of the wealthy became accessible to the working class during the 1830s?

Sailing

Horse racing

Cycling

Theater

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3. What vital means of transportation invented in the 1830s served to whisk wealthy city-dwellers away from their poor neighbors and out into the suburbs and countryside whenever possible?

Coal-powered trains

Horse-drawn streetcars

Steam-powered streetcars

Steam-powered boats

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4. How did the shift from craft to factory work in the mid-nineteenth century affect workingmen?

The number of jobs available to skilled workers increased.

The skills and pay of workingmen were threatened.

Skilled workers were able to train and mentor larger numbers of apprentices.

Skilled workers were forced to give away the tricks of their trades.

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5. What was the position of the group of Americans who took the name “nativists” in the 1840s?

Only Native Americans should be working in factories, not those of European descent.

Immigration should be stopped, especially of Irish people.

Immigration should be restricted only to Irish people and those from Europe.

Only those who were at least third-generation Americans should hold public office.

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6. What was referred to as the Second Great Awakening?

Ancient Jewish gatherings to celebrate the high holidays

Outdoor Catholic masses conducted entirely in Latin

Southern-style campfires and meetings of evangelical Christians

European-style gatherings of Unitarians and Quakers

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7. Emerging in the 1830s, transcendentalists believed the power of the Universal Being was accessible through

religious services.

direct communication.

diet.

nature.

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8. In the mid-nineteenth century, what inspired so many middle-class Protestants to participate in reform movements?

They longed for community.

Rich people created so much suffering.

They believed in a social gospel.

Catholics weren’t doing enough.

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9. What was the main role for women in the temperance movement?

To encourage family members to stop drinking

To stop drinking themselves

To educate members of their church on the dangers of drinking

To raise public concern about the plight of women with alcoholic husbands

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10. Why were free blacks the most vocal advocates of abolition prior to the 1830s?

Slaves only wanted free blacks advocating on their behalf

White people had too much to lose by working to end slavery

Free blacks forbade whites from speaking out against slavery

Most whites didn’t really care about slavery for a long time

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11. The mission of William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper, The Liberator, was to

encourage slaves to see the issue of slavery through the perspective of whites.

show free blacks a more moderate, effective approach to abolition activism.

persuade slaveholders that slavery wasn’t profitable enough to justify its existence.

encourage white abolitionists to embrace the black perspective.

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12. The new political party created for the 1840 election, known as the Liberty party, was established to advocate

the abolition of slavery.

the restriction of slavery in the new territories.

secession from the slaveholding states of the South.

freedom from government restrictions on slavery.