Unit 4

Question 1

The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was

Answer 1

the rebellion against British rule and potato famine

Question 2

Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the

Answer 2

Cotton gin

Question 3

The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossumed

Answer 3

in the New England textile industry

Question 4

As a result of the development of the cotton gin

Answer 4

slavery revived and expanded

Question 5

The American workforce in the early nineteenth century was characterized by

Answer 5

substantial employment of women and children in factories

Question 6

Most early railroads in the US were built in the

Answer 6

North

Question 7

What did the regions specialize in during the new continental economy?

Answer 7

South - grew cotton for export
East - made machines and textiles for the other regions
West - grew grains and livestock to feed eastern factory workers

Question 8

The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it

Answer 8

more reliant on women as member and social reformers

Question 9

What prejudice prevented women from obtaining higher education in the early 19th century

Answer 9

too much learning would injure women’s brains, ruin their health, and make them unfit for marriage

Question 10

New England reform Dorothea Dix helped with

Answer 10

prison and asylum reform

Question 11

By the 1850s, the women’s rights movement was eclipsed by

Answer 11

abolitionism

Question 12

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by

Answer 12

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 13

The profitable southern slave system

Answer 13

hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole

Question 14

Slaves were denied education because

Answer 14

masters believed that reading brought new ideas that might lead to their discontent

Question 15

Slaves fought the system of slavery by

Answer 15

• slowing down their work pace
• sabotaging expensive equipment
• pilfering goods that their labor had produced
• running away from their masters

Question 16

Proslavery whites defended the institution of slavery by

Answer 16

• claiming slavery was supported by the Bible
• slaveholders said slavery lifted Africans from the barbarism of the jungle and gave them Christian civilization
• Slaveholders claimed that master-slave relationships resembled a family
• saying that slaves toiled under better working conditions than factory workers and hired hands in the North

Question 17

Why was Britain so intensely interested in an independent Texas?

Answer 17

• it would check the southward surge of American colossus, who posed a threat to British possessions
• clashes between Texas and America would create a smoke-screen diversion that foreign powers could hide behind and challenge the Monroe Doctrine
• British merchants believed that Texas could be an important free trade area, to offset the tariff walled US
• The alliance would give abolitionists the opportunity to free slaves in Texas

Question 18

Manifest Destiny

Answer 18

The view that God had ordained the growth of and American nation stretching across N. America

Question 19

Who were the spot resolutions introduced by

Answer 19

Abraham Lincoln

Question 20

What did the Wilmot Proviso declare

Answer 20

That slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the US