Society, Economy and Reform Study Guide
1.	Life on the frontier was
2.	Pioneering Americans marooned by geography
3.	In early-nineteenth-century America,
4.	The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860
5.	"Ecological imperialism" can best be described as
6.	George Catlin advocated
7.	The influx of immigrants to the United States tripled, then quadrupled, in the
8.	Ireland's great export in the 1840s was
9.	The Irish immigrants to early-nineteenth-century America
10.	When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they
11.	When the "famine Irish" came to America, they
12.	Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these immigrants
13.	German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to
14.	German immigrants to the United States
15.	When German immigrants came to the United States, they
16.	Those who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized
17.	The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called
18.	Native-born Americans feared that Catholic immigrants to the United States would
19.	Immigrants coming to the United States before 1860
20.	The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was
21.	Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the
22.	Most of the cotton produced in the American South in the early nineteenth century was
23.	The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed
24.	As a result of the development of the cotton gin,
25.	The underlying basis for modern mass production was the
26.	The early factory system distributed its benefits
27.	Match each individual below with the correct invention.
28.	The American work force in the early nineteenth century was characterized by
29.	One reason that the lot of adult wage earners improved was
30.	In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that
31.	The "cult of domesticity"
32.	Early-nineteenth-century American families
33.	One of the goals of the child-centered family of the 1800s was to
34.	The effect of early-nineteenth-century industrialization on the trans-Allegheny West was to encourage
35.	With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West,
36.	The first major transportation project linking the East to the trans-Allegheny West was 37.	Western road building faced all of the following problems except
38.	The major application for steamboats transporting freight and passengers in the United States was on
39.	The "canal era" of American history began with the construction of the
40.	Construction of the Erie Canal
41.	Most early railroads in the United States were built in the
42.	Compared with canals, railroads
43.	In the new continental economy, each region specialized in a particular economic activity: the South __________ for export; the West grew grains and livestock to feed __________; and the East __________ for the other two regions.
44.	As a result of the transportation revolution,
45.	In general, __________ tended to bind the West and South together, while __________ and __________ connected West to East.
46.	As the new continental market economy grew,
47.	A major economic consequence of the transportation and marketing revolutions was
48.	America's early-nineteenth-century population was notable for its
49.	Factors encouraging the growth of immigration rates in the first half of the nineteenth century included the
50.	The growth of industry and the factory system in the United States was slowed by
51.	The Northeast became the center of early-nineteenth-century American industry because it had
52.	The growth of early-nineteenth-century American manufacturing was stimulated by the
53.	By 1850, America's factory system was producing
54.	The concentration of capital for investment in large-scale enterprises in the early nineteenth century was promoted by the
55.	The turnpikes, canals, and steamboats as new transportation links generally encouraged
56.	Clipper ships and the Pony Express had in common
57.	Advances in manufacturing and transportation brought
58.	The Deist faith embraced all of the following except
59.	Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin endorsed the concept of
60.	By 1850, organized religion in America
61.	All the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it
62.	Unitarians endorsed the concept of
63.	An early-nineteenth-century religious rationalist sect devoted to the rule of reason and free will was the
64.	Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in
65.	As a revivalist preacher, Charles Grandison Finney advocated
66.	The greatest of the revival preachers of the Second Great Awakening was
67.	The Second Great Awakening tended to
68.	The Mormon religion originated in
69.	The religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were the
70.	The Second Great Awakening tended to
71.	The original prophet of the Mormon religion was
72.	Which one of the following is least related to the other four?
73.	One characteristic of the Mormons that angered many non-Mormons was their
74.	Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges founded as a result of the Second Great Awakening
75.	Tax-supported public education
76.	In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax-supported schools were
77.	Noah Webster's dictionary
78.	One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that
79.	Women became especially active in the social reforms stimulated by the Second Great Awakening because
80.	Two areas where women in the nineteenth century were widely thought to be superior to men were
81.	New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of
82.	The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s
83.	Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because
84.	One sign that women in America were treated better than women in Europe was
85.	Neal Dow sponsored the Maine Law of 1851, which called for
86.	By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by
87.	According to John Humphrey Noyes, the key to happiness is
88.	The beliefs advocated by John Humphrey Noyes included all of the following except
89.	The key to Oneida's financial success was
90.	The Oneida colony declined due to
91.	The American medical profession by 1860 was noted for
92.	Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held __________ as one of their founding ideals.
93.	Of the following, the most successful of the early-nineteenth-century communitarian experiments was at
94.	When it came to scientific achievement, America in the 1800s was
95.	Match each individual below with the correct description. 
                              
96.	America's artistic achievements in the first half of the nineteenth century
97.	The Hudson River school excelled in the art of painting
98.	A genuinely American literature received a strong boost from the
99.	Match each writer below with his work. 
100.	Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through
101.	All of the following influenced transcendental thought except
102.	"Civil Disobedience," an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist
103.	The Poet Laureate of Democracy, whose emotional and explicit writings expressed a deep love of the masses and enthusiasm for an expanding America, was
104.	The most noteworthy southern novelist before the Civil War was
105.	One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was
106.	Match each writer below with his work. 
107.	Virtually all the distinguished historians of early-nineteenth-century America came from
108.	The Mormons were advocates or practitioners of
109.	Early-nineteenth-century American educators included
110.	In early-nineteenth-century America,
111.	Social reformers of the early nineteenth century wanted to
112.	In early-nineteenth-century America, men usually regarded women as
113.	The leaders of the women's rights movement in the early nineteenth century included
114.	The Knickerbocker group of American writers included
115.	American transcendentalist writers included
116.	Transcendentalists were dedicated to