a) a nationalist b) an emigrant c) a nativist d) a radical

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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