1) What was the most basic reason why so many Americans moved so much, especially to the new western lands?

    A) greater political freedom

    B) improved economic opportunity

    C) more comfortable social relationships

    D) a sense of providential destiny



2) In its social impact, the market revolution did all the following except

    A) elevated the status of workers.

    B) produced greater per capita wealth in American society.

    C) stimulated materialism.

    D) reorganized society toward greater specialization.



3) The led to the mass exodus of Irish immigrants to the United States after 1846.

4) Which political party's main focus was on curbing immigration and the influence of immigrants in politics and society.

    A) Whigs

    B) Know-Nothings

    C) Free Soil

    D) Anti-Masonic



5) In early nineteenth-century America,

    A) the annual population growth rate wa much higher than in colonial days.

    B) the urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate.

    C) the birthrate was rapidly declining.

    D) the death rate was increasing.



6) The dramatic growth of the cities between 1800 and 1860 was due, mostly, to

    A) decreased availability of farm lands because of soil depletion.

    B) increased immigration of Irish.

    C) natural increase.

    D) increased availability of employment because of the industrial revolution.



7) When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they

    A) preferred urban life.

    B) were offered high-paying jobs.

    C) were welcomed by the people living there.

    D) were too poor to move west and buy land.



8) When German immigrants came to the United States, they

    A) mixed well with other Americans.

    B) remained mostly in the Northeast.

    C) prospered with astonishing ease.

    D) dropped most of their German customs.



9) Chinese immigrants tended to settle in the new industrial towns of the Northeast because of the demand for factory workers. True False

10) With the rise of industry and the availability of factory employment, the old corporate family was replaced by a new type of middle class family in urban areas. True False

11) Voluntary organizations were originally designed to help rural immigrants adjust to urban life, but then became drinking clubs. True False

12) The "Cult of Domesticity" or "Cult of True Womanhood,"

    A) developed out of the new middle-class household in which the mother was the moral head of the family.

    B) was foisted on women in the early 1800s by their husbands to keep women in a state of ignorance.

    C) grew out of the earlier concept of "Republican Motherhood," which sought to retain patriarchal control of the family.

    D) gave women unprecedented social and political power.