In 1794, Reverend Absalom Jones and Reverend Richard Allen founded the first African American Baptist and Methodist churches in the city of __________. A) Boston B) Philadelphia C) Atlanta D) Richmond ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The first state to extend suffrage to all white males was __________. A) Kentucky B) Vermont C) Ohio D) South Carolina ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
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
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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
