The Adams-Onàs Treaty gave the United States possession of __________. A) Oregon B) Alta California C) Maine D) Florida ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Why did the policy of “peaceable coercion” fail? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: neutrality; economic warfare; the Napoleonic Wars; relations with France and Britain
Date: September 9th, 2020
One reason for the persistence of slavery in the South was that __________. A) a child born of a slave was legally a slave B) the international slave trade grew rapidly after 1808 C) free blacks were seized and enslaved D) Indian slaves replaced black slaves after 1808 ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Denmark Vesey was to South Carolina as Nat Turner was to __________. A) Louisiana B) Mississippi C) Virginia D) Georgia ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Discuss the connection between southern slavery and the northern economy. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: industrialization; textile manufacturing; settlement of the Old Southwest; national and international markets
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Supreme Court decisions in Gibbons v. Ogden and Dartmouth College v. Woodward __________. A) asserted the broad power of the federal government over interstate commerce B) questioned the constitutionality of federal law limits to the expansion of slavery C) strengthened the power of state governments in commercial matters D) denied the states the right […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the “corrupt bargain” of 1824, what office was Henry Clay’s reward? A) vice president B) secretary of state C) attorney general D) president ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the source of Andrew Jackson’s personal wealth? A) a private bank B) a canal scheme C) a plantation worked by slave labor D) a coal mine in Tennessee ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
If you lived in Boston or Philadelphia from 1790-1807 and had accumulated large amounts of capital, it was probably from __________. A) textile mills B) mining C) commercial farming D) international shipping ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
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
Date: September 9th, 2020
