What city benefited the most from the opening of the Erie Canal? A) New York B) Boston C) Philadelphia D) Chicago ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The most significant demographic development of the period 1820-1860 was __________. A) the settlement of the Great Plains B) the development of suburbs C) rapid population growth in the cities D) the influx from the south of black workers ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
An important common denominator in the public education, temperance, antiprostitution, and asylum reform movements was leadership by __________. A) the working class B) women C) big-city machines D) evangelical ministers ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Between 1820 to 1850, the economic status of free northern blacks __________. A) generally improved B) experienced little change C) generally deteriorated D) surpassed that of Germans and Irish ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Discuss the problems of immigration that America’s urban centers faced and were unable to solve in the 1830s-1850s. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: urban poverty; crowding; municipal services; disease; crime; political corruption
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the early nineteenth century, these Indian tribes dominated the southern high plains. A) Navajos and Hopis B) Cherokees and Creeks C) Cherokees and Apaches D) Comanches and Apaches ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The greatest spur to exploration of the North American continent from the 1670s to the 1840s was a quest for __________. A) farm lands B) pasture lands C) gold D) furs ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Popular sovereignty was based on the accepted constitutional principle that decisions about slavery should be made __________. A) by the president B) by the courts C) at the state level D) at the national level ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Many Northerners were fearful of what they called __________. A) “the power of the purse” B) “the power of ‘King Cotton’” C) “the slave power” D) “Southern Power” ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Dred Scott decision held that __________. A) blacks, whether slave or free, were not citizens and could not sue in a court of law B) slaves were citizens but could not sue in a court of law C) only free blacks had legal rights D) the Kansas-Nebraska Act was unconstitutional ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
