How did preemption affect migration? a. More people migrated when assured that preemption would allow them to secure title to land they had improved. b. It allowed Native Americans the right to refuse to leave land they had improved in Florida to settle in the West. c. It gave land speculators the first rights to […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Many of the most prominent education reformers of the 1820s and 1830s were A) Whigs who believed that they could organize schools to build a new American culture that was better than the Jacksonian democracy which they thought was too individualistic and unlikely to transmit the kind of moral code essential to a well-regulated national […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the Spring of 1968, President Johnson ended America’s policy of ________ in the war in Vietnam. A) “search and destroy” missions B) Vietnamization C) retaliatory bombing raids D) escalating the level of involvement ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which political event in the early 1820s set the stage for a developing political conflict in the 1820s and 1830s between two independent republics (which bordered each other at the Sabine River) with deep cultural differences? A) Mexico winning its independence from Spain in 1821 B) the strict adherence by American settlers to the U.S.-Mexico […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
By the late nineteenth century, ranching was changing as __________. a. ranchers were fencing off their lands b. experienced cowboys abandoned ranches in favor of factory jobs c. ranches were getting smaller d. ranchers switched to farming corn e. cattle shipped from Mexico became cheaper than American cattle ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
When did interest in the United States in settling in the Oregon Territory begin to grow significantly, requiring the United States to negotiate with Britain over the final Oregon boundary? A) the 1820s B) the mid-1830s C) the mid-1840s D) the 1810s ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What common concerns shaped all of the new state constitutions? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The ideal answer should include: 1. Drafters feared an overly powerful executive, so they curtailed the power of state governors. 2. State governors were to be elected annually (usually by the assembly) and would be subject to […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo included all of the following outcomes EXCEPT A) obtaining all of Texas to the Rio Grande, New Mexico, and land further west to California as far south as San Diego. B) Mexico was paid $15 million, which went to its creditors. C) 90,000 new citizens, who had been citizens of […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was one of the results of the rapid increase in cultivated acreage during the latter half of the nineteenth century? a. higher tariffs on farm products b. lower prices for farm products c. a decrease in demand for farm machinery d. an increase in land values e. a decrease in land values ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the purpose of President Fillmore sending Commodore Matthew Perry and four American warships to Japan in July 1856? A) President Fillmore wanted to force Japan to permit an American naval base to be constructed at Okinawa. B) President Fillmore wanted Japan to permit U.S. naval and commercial ships to use Japanese coaling stations […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
