Which one of these is the RESULT of the others?
 cotton boom
 * huge increase in internal slave trade
 Whitney-Greene cotton gin
 British and Americans ban international slave trade.

All of the following were traditional eighteenth-century work habits except:
 work in or near the home
 a barter and mutual obligation system
 * fixed production work schedule
 family apprenticeship system

The chief subject of discussion at the convention held in Seneca Falls, New  York was
 revolutions abroad and their effect on the United States.
 prison reform.
 educational reform.
 * women's rights.

Americans justified their restless expansion in all of the following ways  except:
 Americans had a God-given right to bring the benefits of American democracy to  others.
 The nation's prosperity depended on expansion.
 It was the Americans' duty to Christianize the Indians.
 * Canada and Mexico should belong to the United States.

The issue of slavery in the territories came to a head in 1850 when
 * California applied for statehood.
 Silver was discovered in Nevada.
 Arizona applied for statehood.
 Lewis Cass proposed the principle of popular sovereignty.


In the first half of the nineteenth century, the American economy
 * benefited greatly from the connection between southern slavery and northern  industry.
 suffered because of the South's slave system.
 depended primarily on northern industrial production.
 depended primarily on profits from slave-grown cotton.

A crucial aspect of the new putting-out system was
 * a division of labor.
 apprenticing.
 assembly lines.
 a lack of family ties.


All of the following were beliefs of the nineteenth century middle-class  reformers except:
 They could create the perfect community on earth.
 Human nature was basically good.
 * Small-scale, sincere responses to social problems could work.
 They were morally certain of what was right.

All of the following were reasons why Texans rebelled against the Mexican  government except:
 The government outlawed slavery.
 * Mexicans began raising the price of land.
 The government began to restrict American immigration.
 The government began to levy customs duties and taxes.

Stephen Douglas's action in introducing the Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854  proved to be a/an
 * great political miscalculation.
 step closer to the presidency for him.
 brilliant political move.
 insignificant political act.


Of all the New World slave societies, the one that existed in the South was  the only one that
 * grew by natural increase.
 imported its slaves from Africa.
 did not import female slaves.
 never had a slave rebellion.

An important common denominator in the public education, temperance, anti- prostitution, and asylum reform movements was
 working-class leadership.
 * female participation and leadership.
 leadership by evangelical ministers.
 southern support.


The changes caused by the market revolution included
 closer relations between employer and employee.
 * the rise of a cash economy.
 long-term employment by workers in a single mill.
 a blending of work and leisure.

The Republic of Texas was not immediately annexed by the United States  largely because of the
 * fact that Texas would have to be admitted as a slave state.
 opposition of Stephen F. Austin.
 fear that there were too many outlaws residing in the republic.
 isolationist policies of the Democratic Party.


The appearance of the Know-Nothing Party reflected American
 tolerance of diversity.
 * Nativist leanings.
 acceptance of the market revolution.
 political apathy.

A common defense of the institution of slavery by slave owners was that
 * slaves were treated better than northern industrial workers.
 slave children played with white children.
 slaves lived better on southern plantations than the natives in Africa.
 slaves lived much longer than whites.




Many of the first strikes in American labor history were led by
 apprentices.
 middle-class reformers.
 Irish immigrants.
 * rural women workers.

The middle class
 * applied new notions of morality to various social movements.
 recognized that human nature was basically evil.
 realized that all humans knew what was right.
 allowed members of society to be reformed only when they felt it necessary.

The Liberty Party's showing in the 1844 election was the first political  sign of the growing strength of
 Tejanos.
 anti-Spanish sentiment.
 free African Americans.
 * antislavery opinion.

John Brown's raid shocked the South because
 * it aroused the South's great fear of a slave rebellion.
 it was so successful.
 Brown was tried and hanged; he was recovering from wounds suffered in the raid.
 so many people died in vain.



The most successful slave revolt was led by
 Hinton Helper.
 * Nat Turner.
 Denmark Vesey.
 Gabriel Prosser.


In 1798, Eli Whitney contracts with the government for
 support of the cotton gin.
 * producing rifles with interchangeable parts.
 construction of the first cotton textile factory.
 a shoe factory based on assembly line production.


The American Colonization Society
 * focused on sending blacks back to Africa.
 was a group dedicated to helping blacks economically.
 wanted an immediate end to slavery.
 lobbied to allow free blacks to vote.

In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed that
 military appropriations to conduct the Mexican-American War be terminated.
 * slavery be banned from any territory acquired from Mexico.
 the United States acquire Cuba from Spain.
 the United States incorporate all of Mexico into its borders.


The Republicans won the election of 1860 largely because
 their platform had universal appeal.
 of Lincoln's popularity in the South.
 * the Democratic Party split into northern and southern wings.
 they appealed to the "Common Man."