Who was the early nineteenth-century’s leading proponent of asylums for the mentally ill? A) Sojourner Truth B) Thomas Gallaudet C) Dorothea Dix D) Prudence Crandall ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The text authors conclude that “it was the issue of slave expansion–and not the morality of slavery–that would . . . lead the United States to civil war.” Write an argument with specific evidence that supports this conclusion. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER As a political issue, slavery was absent from debate […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Answer the question: “Why were the South’s political leaders so worried about whether slavery would be permitted in the West when geography and climate made it unlikely that slavery would ever prosper in the area?” What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Southerners were eager to establish in principle their right to expand slavery […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Describe the impact of the postwar demobilization and “Red Scare” on African Americans, labor unions, and political dissidents. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Postwar inflation and the loss of government sanction of their activities damaged labor. Employers also encouraged middle class Americans to associate labor organizers and strikers with communism. African Americans […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The first martyr of the abolitionist movement was A) Elijah Lovejoy. B) David Walker. C) William Lloyd Garrison. D) Frederick Douglass. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Chesapeake colonists adopted a slave-labor system for all of the following reasons EXCEPT A) compared to white servants, black Africans were more immune to tropical diseases and lived longer. B) fewer white indentured servants were available. C) unlike Indians, blacks did not resist their enslavement. D) black slaves were becoming cheaper to purchase. ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Chief Justice John Marshall and the Supreme Court delivered a severe blow to a strict interpretation of the Constitution in A) McCulloch v. Maryland. B) Dartmouth v. Woodward. C) Marbury v. Madison. D) Gibbons v. Ogden. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Within the late nineteenth-century American labor force, important distinctions were based on A) skill. B) ethnicity. C) gender. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, most colonial women A) were given pain killers during delivery. B) were attended by a male doctor. C) gave birth at home. D) All of the above. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
General Andrew Jackson’s actions during a punitive expedition in Florida in 1817 brought demands for his censure from all the following EXCEPT A) the Spanish government. B) Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. C) Speaker of the House Henry Clay. D) Secretary of War John C. Calhoun. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
