Catharine Beecher’s book A Treatise on Domestic Economy illustrated the need for __________. A) helping middle-class women modernize their tasks and family roles B) suffrage for women C) occupational training for working-class and immigrant women D) new attitudes on sexuality and childbearing for middle-class women ANSWER Answer: A
The National Road stretched from Cumberland, Maryland, to __________. A) Saint Augustine, Florida B) Savanah, Georgia C) Vandalia, Illinois D) Saint Louis, Missouri ANSWER Answer: C
Until the 1880s, the task of receiving immigrants fell on __________. A) the federal government B) private charities C) the cities D) religious leaders ANSWER Answer: C
The first real career path for women was __________. A) preaching B) school teaching C) moral reformer D) politician ANSWER Answer: B
William Sidney Morris’s painting, The Bone Player, is unusual in that it is a sympathetic portrayal of a(n) __________. A) Irishman B) Mormon C) African American man D) women’s rights activist ANSWER Answer: C
Why would the Irish and the free blacks of the North be particularly antagonistic to each other? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: urban poverty; anti-Irish discrimination; antiblack discrimination; sources of conflict
Prior to the 1830s, the dominant industry in the Oregon Territory was __________. A) the fur trade B) whaling C) coal mining D) farming ANSWER Answer: A
In the election of 1848, __________. A) both Cass and Taylor took deliberately vague positions on slavery in the territories B) Cass strongly opposed the annexation of California C) Taylor proposed the doctrine of “popular sovereignty” D) the Free-Soil Party demanded the extension of slavery to all territories ANSWER Answer: A
Most Chinese miners __________. A) never intended to return to China B) were men who came to California without their families C) got very rich D) wore western clothes and tried not to stand out ANSWER Answer: B
The election of 1848 was a warning that __________. A) political parties no longer represented a national political community B) Democratic attacks on slavery threatened to fragment the Union C) the South was becoming a Whig-only region D) the loyalty to the nation outweighed sectional identity in most voters’ minds ANSWER Answer: A
