PALO ALTO COLLEGE
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
History 1301


Directions: Please submit your quiz answers like this: 1. a     2.c    3.d,   etc. After finishing the quiz and your essays, please email me ALL your work for this theme in ONE Microsoft Word Attachment. Thank you. Multiple Choice Questions Theme 9: :

    When Our Ancestors Became Us

  1. What is the John Steele Gordon’s point by writing When Our Ancestors Became Us?
    1. Until the 19th century, Americans lived lives similar to the former ways of dead relatives.
    2. By the early 19th century, most Americans yearned for the "golden days" of yesteryear.
    3. After the 18th century, Americans retreated into doing things by hand and without machines.
    4. In the 18th century, Americans lived comfortable lives without many hardships.

    Robert Fulton and his steamboat the Clermont

  2. According to John Steel Gordon in the article When Our Ancestors Became Us, the American Revolution:
    1. resulted in democracy and equality for all Americans.
    2. shifted rights from England to America.
    3. had little if any impact on the daily lives of most Americans at that time.
    4. had a profound influence upon both America and much of Europe.

  3. According to Gordon, most Americans of the mid-nineteenth century were, by modern standards:
    1. religious, frugal, temperate, and moral.
    2. laborers, unconcerned with their conditions.
    3. backward, dirty, drunken, and impoverished.
    4. farmers, concerned only with commodity prices.

  4. What was the major transportation form of moving goods to markets before railroads?
    1. highways
    2. steamboats
    3. stagecoaches
    4. canals

  5. What was the biggest reason for the dramatic rise in life expectancy in the country between 1850-1900?
    1. the development of inoculations for smallpox and cholera
    2. the rise in the number of doctors in rural areas
    3. the widespread availability of clean, running water
    4. the new technology of central heating

    From The Temperance Movement

    crusading women

  6. What was a main factor behind the temperance movement’s difficult task to stop people from drinking?
    1. Alcohol was abundant and affordable.
    2. Alcohol recipes were in all newspapers.
    3. Immigrants smuggled alcohol on ships.
    4. People drank alcohol to cure yellow fever.

  7. What individuals tended to lead the temperance crusade?
    1. freed blacks & immigrants
    2. lawyers & artisans
    3. women & physicians
    4. farmers & soldiers

  8. Who were the members of the Cold Water Army ("So here we pledge perpetual hate, To all that can intoxicate") ?
    1. women
    2. children
    3. soldiers
    4. politicians

    From Erie Canal: Viable East-West Trade

  9. Why were canals so important to nineteenth century America?
    a) Canals were needed for trans-Atlantic transportation.
    b) Canals provided access to Indian lands for fur-traders.
    c) Canals connected the eastern seaboard states with each other.
    d) Canals connected western farmers with eastern markets.

  10. The Erie Canal took _____ years to complete.
    a) 2
    b) 10
    c) 8
    d) 5

  11. DeWitt Clinton argued that the canal was necessary, and would make _________________ the greatest city in the world.
    a) New York
    b) Philadelphia
    c) Boston
    d) Buffalo

    From Flyover History, Chapter 22, From Utopia to Mill Town

    women in the cotton mill

  12. Why did many New England women tend to choose Lowell mill work over teaching or domestic service? :
    a) it required more intelligence
    b) it allowed them to move up the corporate ladder
    c) it paid better and gave them a sense of independence
    d) it was easier than farm work

  13. What was a main assumption of the owners of the Lowell Mills, when they hired their workers? :
    a) New laborers would eventually join labor unions to demand better working conditions.
    b) Obedient laborers would become docile and not bite the hands of their bosses.
    c) African slaves and Irish immigrants would replace younger workers over time.
    d) Laborers who possessed a strong Christian background could become troublemakers.

  14. In the mid-1840's, the mill girls organized the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association (LFLRA). What issue did the LFLRA petition the legislature to make law?:
    a) equal pay with men
    b) the right to vote
    c) the right to wear bloomers
    d) the ten hour workday

  15. Who became the primary source of labor in the Lowell mills by the 1850's because they worked cheaper than New England girls?:
    a) African slave labor
    b) immigrant Irish girls
    c) indentured servants
    d) engineers