1. 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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3. 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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5. 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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7. A) plague B) famine C) epidemic D) embargo
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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9. 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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11. 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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13. 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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15. 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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17. 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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19. 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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21. A) political community & economic progress
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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23. 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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25. 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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27. 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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29. 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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31. 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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33. 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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35. 18. Nature was written by ______________.
A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Louisa May Alcott
C) Herman Melville
D) Ralph Waldo Emerson

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37. 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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39. 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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41. 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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43. 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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45. 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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