Why did Francis Cabot Lowell tour British textile mills in 1810? A) to study their management style B) in order to copy their technology C) in an effort to find employment D) for his own amusement ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The core of sentimentalism of the urban middle class developed from __________. A) romantic love B) nostalgia for imagined preindustrial village security C) the advertising culture of the day D) the increasingly formal nature of social interactions ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The development of northern industry was paid for by __________. A) international stockholders and investors B) southern financial institutions C) manufactured goods produced by Irish immigrants D) southern cotton produced by enslaved African American labor ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
As urban free black populations grew in the early nineteenth century, __________. A) urban whites welcomed free blacks as neighbors B) blacks were often victims of urban violence C) blacks were the most peaceable citizens of their cities D) blacks had access to most jobs and professions ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Complicating the efforts of the abolitionists was their __________. A) lack of focus B) lack of moral fervor C) disagreement on the status of free blacks D) excessive deference to the feelings of slave owners ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Beginning in the 1830s, a series of urban riots broke out against the two poorest urban groups: __________. A) Germans and Jews B) Catholics and free blacks C) Russians and Scandinavians D) Serbs and Russians ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In addition to Lewis and Clark, the Louisiana Territory was also explored in 1806-1807 by __________. A) Lieutenant Zebulon Pike B) Jedediah Smith C) Major Stephen Long D) Major John Wesley Powell ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Tejanos were __________. A) Spanish-speaking residents of Texas B) mestizos C) a multiracial amalgam of whites, blacks, and Indians D) American foreigners residing in Texas ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The greatest opposition to Polk and the Mexican-American War came from __________. A) southern Democrats A) southern Democrats B) northern Whigs C) border state Democrats D) the Liberty Party ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Despite their many differences, why did Ralph Waldo Emerson and John C. Calhoun both oppose Polk’s aggressive expansionism? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: opposition to the expansion of slavery; Calhoun’s racism; nativism; northern public opinion
Date: September 9th, 2020
