President Polk eventually agreed to establish the permanent border between the Oregon Territory and the Canadian province of British Columbia and Yukon Territory at the 49th parallel for all of the following reasons EXCEPT A) Polk needed a strong U.S. Army for the war he anticipated having with Mexico and did not want to fight […]
How did transportation affect industry and agriculture in the early nineteenth century? a. Improved land and water transportation changed the United States from an agricultural to an industrial society. b. Improved land and water transportation allowed the United States to develop more industry and create a cash crop agricultural system. c. Developments in land and […]
What was the name of the final acquisition of land in the continental United States, completed in 1853 and involving the American purchase from Mexico of a strip of land south of Arizona and New Mexico for a southern transcontinental railroad? A) the Trist Purchase B) the Gadsden Purchase C) the Taylor Purchase D) the […]
The new American suburbs of the 1950s __________. a. were too expensive for most young couples b. allowed only upper-class inhabitants c. were mainly inhabited by working-class families d. showed a surprising occupational diversity among inhabitants e. were typically open to all races and religions ANSWER D
The California Gold Rush attracted prospective miners from all over California, including Indians, long-time Mexican residents, and American settlers, as well as immigrants from Oregon, Hawaii, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Australia, and China. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
Richard Hakluyt the Younger believed that: a. an overseas empire would drain England’s treasury and cause the state’s downfall b. the Church of England needed to evangelize overseas among the Indians c. the colonies would provide markets for English goods and institutions d. Queen Elizabeth’s colonization efforts were too ambitious ANSWER C
Uncle Tom’s Cabin had all the following impacts on the issue of slavery EXCEPT A) an angry reaction in De Bow’s Southern and Western Review. B) to anger Southerners who rationalized slavery. C) keeping France neutral during the Civil War. D) to anger Northerners, many of whom saw the realities of slavery through its pages. […]
The economic revolution in the United States between 1810 and 1840 was one of __________ rather than production. a. design b. technology c. hand work d. domestic work e. distribution ANSWER E
The cotton economy between 1815 and 1860 created common economic interests between all of the following groups EXCEPT A) Northern manufacturers. B) Northern mill owners. C) Southern slave-owning producers of cotton. D) owners of ships that transported cotton to Britain. ANSWER Answer: A
How did the three branches of the federal government respond to the Era of Good Feeling? a. They had a time of little activity because the country was prospering so much. b. The three branches worked together to try to bring about an Era of Good Feeling in the United States like the one they […]
