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

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

4. A severe food shortage that results in widespread hunger and death is known as a ______. • A) plague • B) famine • C) epidemic • D) embargo

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

12. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was written by ______. • A) James Fenimore Cooper • B) Washington Irving • C) Edgar Allan Poe • D) Herman Melville

13. The Raven was written by _________. • A) Ralph Waldo Emerson • B) Henry David Thoreau • C) Edgar Allan Poe • D) Herman Melville

14. The Last of the Mohicans was written by ________. • A) Herman Melville • B) Washington Irving • C) Ralph Waldo Emerson • D) James Fenimore Cooper

15. Rip Van Winkle was written by _______. • A) Louisa May Alcott • B) Washington Irving • C) Herman Melville • D) Edgar Allan Poe

16. Little Women was written by __________. • A) Herman Melville • B) Louisa May Alcott • C) Harriet Beecher Stowe • D) Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. Walden Pond was written by __________. • A) Herman Melville • B) Edgar Allan Poe • C) Henry David Thoreau • D) Harriet B. Stowe

18. Nature was written by ______________. • A) Henry David Thoreau • B) Louisa May Alcott • C) Herman Melville • D) Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by _________. • A) James Fenimore Cooper • B) Noah Webster • C) Harriet Beecher Stowe • D) Louisa May Alcott

20. Civil Disobedience was written by __________. • A) Harriet Becher Stowe • B) Henry David Thoreau • C) Herman Melville • D) Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. The author of a well-known dictionary was __________. • A) Henry David Thoreau • B) Louisa May Alcott • C) Edgar Allan Poe • D) Noah Webster

22. Moby Dick was written by _____. • A) Herman Melville • B) Ralph Waldo Emerson • C) Henry David Thoreau • D) James Fenimore Cooper

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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