Best-selling newspapers, pamphlets, and books in the mid-nineteenth century __________. A) mainly appealed to a well-educated audience B) fed the popular appetite for sensationalism and scandal C) were mainly reprints of European authors D) were too expensive for working-class people ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
William Henry Harrison most resembled Andrew Jackson because both __________. A) were Whigs B) were Democrats C) were military heroes D) died in office ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Among the primary reasons that young farm women moved from the farm to work in textile mill towns in the early nineteenth century was __________. A) to save their families from economic collapse B) to escape unhappy marriages C) to escape farm life and earn wages D) to find husbands ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Francis Cabot Lowell and Paul Moody changed textile manufacturing with their invention of a(n) __________. A) power loom B) carding machine C) assembly line D) power sewing machine ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
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
Date: September 9th, 2020
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 […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
“Temperance” crusaders were concerned about the problems related to __________. A) prostitution B) excessive drinking C) immigration D) gambling ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
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
Date: September 9th, 2020
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
Date: September 9th, 2020
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
Date: September 9th, 2020
