American Pageant Ch. 14

Life on the frontier was

• downright grim for most pioneer families.

• free of disease and premature death.

• rarely portrayed in popular literature.

• based on tight-knit communities.

All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in early nineteenth-century America except

• the push west in search of cheap land.

• government regulation of all major economic activity.

• a vast number of European immigrants settling in the cities.

• newly invented machinery.

Pioneering Americans marooned by geography

• never took the time to explore the beauty of the natural landscape.

• abandoned the rugged individualism of colonial Americans.

• never looked for any help beyond their immediate family.

• were often ill informed, superstitious, provincial, and fiercely individualistic.

In early-nineteenth-century America, the

• urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate.

• birthrate was rapidly declining.

• U.S. had become the most populous nation in the western world.

• death rate was increasing.

George Catlin advocated

• placing Indians on reservations.

• continuing the rendezvous system.

• keeping white settlers out of the West.

• the preservation of nature as a national policy.

The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860

• led to a lower death rate.

• contributed to a decline in the birthrate.

• resulted in unsanitary conditions in many communities.

• forced the federal government to slow immigration.

The influx of immigrants to the U.S. tripled, then quadrupled, in the

• 1810s and 1820s.

• 1820s and 1830s.

• 1830s and 1840s.

• 1840s and 1850s.

The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was

• the rebellion against British rule and potato famine.

• influx of immigrants from mostly Eastern European countries.

• the migration from the countryside to the city.

• the increasing use of English instead of Gaelic.

Ireland's great export in the 1840s was

• people.

• potatoes.

• wool.

• whiskey.

Whether they were propertied or landless, immigrants were often enticed to leave their homelands by

• letters from family or friends in the U.S., bragging about easy opportunities for wealth.

• advertisements from companies promising big salaries to those who emigrate.

• greater prospects of finding a suitable wife in the West.

• word that there was free land available in the West.