The development of steamboats transformed trade on the Mississippi River for all of the following reasons EXCEPT A) steamboats could travel up the river against the current; in contrast, large riverboats could not travel upstream and they had to be sold for lumber when they reached their downstream destination. B) steamboats were much faster boats […]
The Committee on Public Information __________. a. had little influence on public perceptions b. exerted a positive influence on the public c. called for understanding from the American people d. launched a vitriolic campaign against Germany e. was always careful to avoid emotional appeals ANSWER D
The debates in Congress in 1819 about whether Missouri would be admitted as a free state or a slave state A) were punctuated by heated political rhetoric including threats of disunion that was harsher than Congress had heard in a long time. B) did not reflect growing sectional divisions in the country between the commercial […]
Working for the Dutch East India Company, Henry Hudson led voyages in the early 1600s which accomplished all the following except: a. increased Europe’s geographical knowledge of the coast of North America b. resulted in a twenty-year-long war between Holland and England c. encouraged exploration of Cape Cod, Delaware Bay, and part of interior New […]
The Trail of Tears A) involved the deadly forced march of 12,000 Cherokee Indians from their homelands in Georgia thousands of miles west to new territory in Oklahoma, resulting in the deaths of perhaps 4,000 Cherokee men, women, and children. B) did not involve the support of U.S. Army personnel, only state militias, because many […]
Bernardo de Gálvez was __________. A) the governor of Spanish Louisiana B) a Franciscan friar C) killed at the Battle of Fort Mobile D) a spy in the pay of the British ANSWER A
Which of the following BEST describes the approach of Charles G. Finney’s preaching and revivalism in upstate New York? A) egalitarian and logical B) rigidly orthodox C) emotionally cathartic D) narrowly sectarian ANSWER Answer: A
After General Clinton returned to New York, General __________ took charge of British operations in the South. A) Howe B) Gates C) Burgoyne D) Cornwallis ANSWER D
The cross-continent trek by Brigham Young to the shores of the Great Salt Lake in what is now Utah was designed to permit the Mormons to establish settlements in a tight, church-related community far from any governmental authority seeking to enforce civil laws against polygamy. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
The early encounters of Europeans with the New World and with Indians had several important results. Which of the following is false? Those encounters: a. confirmed most Europeans’ sense of intellectual superiority and virtue b. led to new intellectual disciplines, including the origins of sociology c. convinced most Europeans that Indians had ways of life […]
