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Which of the following spurred the Panic of 1819 in the United States?
Reckless practices pursued by shady state-chartered banks.
Which of the following describes the relationship between social status and wealth in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history?
Americans respected those who raised their status through talent and hard work.
Society's notion of women as republican wives and mothers was based on which of the following ideas about women?
They were uniquely qualified to educate and nurture the spirit.
What was the Second Great Awakening that took place in the United States in the nineteenth century?
A long-lasting religious revival that made the United States a genuinely religious society
Which of the following describes the new industrial system that developed in early nineteenth-century America?
It brought workers together under one roof in a factory
The Panic of 1819 caused which of the following outcomes?
American cotton and wheat prices plummeted over 50 percent.
Which of the following statements describes the extent to which parents exercised control over their children’s marriages in the United States in 1800?
Because landholdings shrank, parents lost leverage over their children’s choices of martial partners
Why did the emancipation of slaves proceed very slowly in the northern states during and after the Revolution?
The northern states gave priority to slaveholders property right so that emancipation often was spaced out over several slave generations.
Which were the two fastest-growing American church denominations during the early nineteenth century?
Baptists and Methodists
Around the 1830s, what new form of manufacturing emerged in America?
Fabrication of metal products
In which of the following ways did the growth of rural manufacturing affect New Englanders in the early eighteenth century?
Farm families became more dependent on market forces beyond their control.
The spread of the cultural attitude known as sentimentalism in early nineteenth-century America had which of the following social and cultural consequences?
Increased emphasis on the importance of love in marriage.
Which slaves became free as a result of the Virginia legislature’s passage of a manumission act in 1782?
Those whose masters chose to free them.
In which of the following ways did evangelical religions in the South evolve during the first decades of the nineteenth century?
They began by preaching spiritual equality but gradually adopted a message that justified white patriarchal authority.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, American manufacturers’ main advantage over the British mills was that they had access to which of the following?
More natural resources
Which of the following objections to the system of state-sponsored mercantilism emerged in the United States by 1820?
It violated the equal rights of citizens and lessened the power of government.
What was the net effect of republican marriage patterns on the institution of marriage in early nineteenth-century America?
Young wives could no longer rely on their parents for emotional or financial support and became more dependent on their husbands.
Why did a group of prominent citizens found the American Colonization Society in 1817?
They aimed to encourage Southern planters to emancipate their slaves for resettlement in Africa.
African Americans who converted to Christianity during the Second Great Awakening embraced which of the following teachings?
God as the liberator of the Jews
How did the federal government aid the growth of American industry in the first half of the nineteenth century?
By passing protective tariff
On what basis did the U.S. government base its claim that the commonwealth system was consistent with republican ideology?
State support for private businesses contributed to the overall public good.
Which of the following factors contributed to the sharp decline in the American birthrate from 1790 to 1820?
Fathers desire for fewer children in order to ensure the adequacy of their inheritances.
Which of the following describes the Missouri Compromise, enacted in 1820?
This piece of legislation set a precedent for future states' admission to the Union.
The Second Great Awakening deeply influenced American culture and society by
Promoting the ideas of human reason and free will
Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of the textile industry in the United States?
Using British textile machinery as their model, American textile producers built their own textile mills in New England and ultimately improved on British technology.