What was the simplest and quickest way for America to industrialize in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? A) copy British technology B) develop American technology C) import British raw materials D) focus on the iron-smelting industry ANSWER Answer: A
If you were a woman during the market revolution and mechanization had robbed you of spinning and weaving as a way of making money in the home, what other possibilities would you have had to consider? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: early factory life; gender roles; Lowell; rural life for […]
“Temperance” crusaders were concerned about the problems related to __________. A) prostitution B) excessive drinking C) immigration D) gambling ANSWER Answer: B
Employment prospects for free black men living in northern cities __________ between 1820 and 1850. A) improved B) deteriorated C) skyrocketed D) all but disappeared ANSWER Answer: B
Describe the typical German immigrant. What motivated this immigrant to leave Germany? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: political conditions in Germany; economic conditions in Germany; social and economic background of German immigrants; German immigrants and family; German immigrants and community
Generally pioneers traveling the Overland Trails in the 1840s and 1850s were __________. A) constantly attacked by Indians B) likely to experience very little dissension C) parts of organized westward-moving communities D) traveling alone for safety and speed ANSWER Answer: C
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania Democrat, proposed that __________. A) the United States incorporate all of Mexico into its borders B) each territory acquired from Mexico could make their own decisions about slavery C) the United States acquire Cuba from Spain D) slavery be banned from any territory acquired from Mexico ANSWER […]
Democrats tended to see industrialization as __________. A) a boon to the nation B) a threat to the nation C) a mixed blessing D) the key to the expansion of democracy ANSWER Answer: B
The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred because Lincoln ran against Douglas for __________. A) the 1860 Democratic nomination B) member of the U.S. House from Illinois C) the 1860 Republican nomination D) U.S. senator from Illinois ANSWER Answer: D
The Missouri Compromise line of 1820 __________. A) negated the Kansas-Nebraska Act B) was extended across the Mexican cession by the Kansas-Nebraska Act C) was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act D) was left intact by the Kansas-Nebraska Act ANSWER Answer: C