1. A person born in a country who wants to eliminate foreign influence from his or her country is known
as __________.
• A) a nationalist
• B) an emigrant
• C) a nativist
• D) a radical
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2. The cheapest way to travel by ship to America in the mid-1800’s was by purchasing a
ticket for ________.
• A) economy class
• B) tourist class
• C) storage
• D) steerage
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3. What effect did the immigration of the mid-1800’s have on the U.S.?
• A) cities were overcrowded, unhealthy, and had high crime rates
• B) these are all true
• C) nativists wanted stricter citizenship requirements
• D) immigrants settled in sparsely populated areas
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4. A severe food shortage that results in widespread hunger and death is known as a ______.
• A) plague
• B) famine
• C) epidemic
• D) embargo
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5. What were the main reasons for Europeans to come to the U.S.?
• A) to escape debt, imprisonment, and political persecution
• B) free land, cheap labor, and to escape imprisonment
• C) economic opportunity & to escape famine and religious persecution
• D) for cheap land, cheap labor, factory work, and religious freedom
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6. Which was NOT an example of a push factor in immigration?
• A) Catholics who faced discrimination in Ireland
• B) German artisans put out of business by factory-made items
• C) German Jews fleeing religious persecution
• D) Swedes settling on public land in the U.S.
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7. What contribution did Noah Webster make to American literature?
• A) he built an ark
• B) he wrote 5 popular novels
• C) he published a dictionary that replaced British spellings with American
• D) he taught fireside poets
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8. What principle did civil disobedience share with nullification?
• A) government cannot exceed its power
• B) an unjust law can be resisted
• C) the will of majority rules
• D) the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
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9. How did the Industrial Revolution in Europe act as a push factor?
• A) farmers were discriminated against
• B) it created more jobs and better working conditions
• C) machines increased productivity and salaries
• D) artisans that made expensive goods by hand were put out of work
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10. Why did some Americans oppose immigration?
• A) some Americans were prejudice• B) immigrants refused to join the Know-Nothing party
• C) the Pope sent Catholics to the U.S.
• D) immigrants refused to learn American ways
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11. Transcendentalist writers such as Emerson and Thoreau stressed the ideas of ______.
• A) political community & economic progress
• B) love of chivalry and return to the past
• C) inner truth and individual self-reliance
• D) personal guilt and fear of death
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12. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was written by ______.
• A) James Fenimore Cooper
• B) Washington Irving
• C) Edgar Allan Poe
• D) Herman Melville
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13. The Raven was written by _________.
• A) Ralph Waldo Emerson
• B) Henry David Thoreau
• C) Edgar Allan Poe
• D) Herman Melville
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14. The Last of the Mohicans was written by ________.
• A) Herman Melville
• B) Washington Irving
• C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
• D) James Fenimore Cooper
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15. Rip Van Winkle was written by _______.
• A) Louisa May Alcott
• B) Washington Irving
• C) Herman Melville
• D) Edgar Allan Poe
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16. Little Women was written by __________.
• A) Herman Melville
• B) Louisa May Alcott
• C) Harriet Beecher Stowe
• D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
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17. Walden Pond was written by __________.
• A) Herman Melville
• B) Edgar Allan Poe
• C) Henry David Thoreau
• D) Harriet B. Stowe
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18. Nature was written by ______________.
• A) Henry David Thoreau
• B) Louisa May Alcott
• C) Herman Melville
• D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
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19. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by _________.
• A) James Fenimore Cooper
• B) Noah Webster
• C) Harriet Beecher Stowe
• D) Louisa May Alcott
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20. Civil Disobedience was written by __________.
• A) Harriet Becher Stowe
• B) Henry David Thoreau
• C) Herman Melville
• D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
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21. The author of a well-known dictionary was __________.
• A) Henry David Thoreau
• B) Louisa May Alcott
• C) Edgar Allan Poe
• D) Noah Webster
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22. Moby Dick was written by _____.
• A) Herman Melville
• B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
• C) Henry David Thoreau
• D) James Fenimore Cooper
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23. Martin Luther King was a follower of this philosophy ________.
• A) race riots
• B) even Steven
• C) civil disobedience
• D) an eye for an eye
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