The presidential election of 1824 had all of the following elements EXCEPT A) the failure of any candidate to gain a majority in the Electoral College, requiring the House of Representatives to determine the outcome of the contest. B) it marked the first time that popular appeal became the most significant factor in a presidential […]
The foreign policy initiative calling for an end to all European colonization efforts in the Western Hemisphere was known as the __________. a. Monroe Doctrine b. Adams-Onís Agreement c. Continental Treaty 1818 d. Webster-Ashburton Treaty e. “American System” ANSWER A
The forced removal of the Cherokees from their native lands was historically exceptional and aroused opposition among many Americans because it involved an Indian tribal nation that had A) permitted Christian missionaries, beginning in the 1790s, to live among them in a largely successful effort to Christianize them. B) a longstanding peaceful, conciliatory, and legally […]
How did expansion affect men like John Jacob Astor? a. As free African Americans, men like Astor could settle in the West and make a life for themselves. b. As displaced Native Americans, men like Astor could relocate in the newly acquired land of the West or Florida, making a new life for themselves. c. […]
What did Lyman Beecher help launch in the 1820s and 1830s to advance moral reform in New England and the nation? A) the Unitarian Church B) voluntary societies composed of members of several different Protestant religious beliefs C) Congregational Church auxiliary organizations D) joint Catholic-Protestant educational and moral reform organizations ANSWER Answer: B
Recent discoveries suggest which of the following? A) that North America may have been the site of the world’s first settled agriculture B) the possible presence of pre-Clovis inhabitants of North America C) the likelihood that the first humans arrived in the Americas 50,000 years ago D) the possible arrival in the Americas of humans […]
What explains the close connections between the religious revivalism of the Second Great Awakening and campaigns for social reform in the 1830s and 1840s? Answer: ANSWER An ideal answer will: 1. Discuss how the religious revivalism of the Second Great Awakening was animated by a democratic and egalitarian spirit and moral reform impulse. 2. […]
America’s role in international affairs was changing in the years immediately before the outbreak of World War I because the United States __________. a. was becoming more of a world power b. had become the most powerful country in the world c. was no longer an imperialist power d. was no longer a colonial power […]
Among the many other Americans who opposed the whole idea of a “manifest destiny” for the United State were all of the following groups EXCEPT A) antislavery advocates who opposed the acquisition of more land because they were certain new lands meant new slave states. B) some proslavery advocates who wanted Texas to become a […]
What did Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense advocate? A) a constitutional monarchy for the new United States B) a negotiated reconciliation with Great Britain C) independence for the colonies D) submission to Parliamentary authority ANSWER C
