Second Great Awakening evangelist Charles Finney had his greatest influence on __________. A) working-class men B) poor farmers C) middle-class women D) upper-class men ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Migrants of __________ origin accounted for at least 40 percent of the population of the Yankee West. A) southern B) New England C) Mid-Atlantic D) European ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of these cities was overwhelmed by the influx of Irish immigrants in the 1840s? A) New York B) Boston C) Baltimore D) Philadelphia ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Southerners were particularly disturbed by free African American writers like David Walker, whose Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World __________. A) encouraged slave rebellion B) assumed full equality C) insisted on changing the Constitution’s three-fifths rule D) advocated public education for blacks ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of these is a prime example of an “instant” city? A) New Orleans B) Birmingham C) New York D) Chicago ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
One of the most important factors in the exploration of the West was __________. A) the China trade B) the cattle business C) the fur trade D) the search for gold ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The population of Bent’s Fort illustrates which broader pattern of American settlement into new areas? A) frontier of inclusion B) frontier of exclusion C) conflict D) assimilation ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The best description of travel on the Overland Trails was that it was __________. A) slow, dangerous, and exhausting B) long but generally safe C) successfully completed by only a handful D) constantly disrupted by murderous Indian attacks ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
How does Bent’s Fort illustrate the issues of a frontier of inclusion? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: multiethnic population; inhabitants and relationships; differences between Bent’s Fort and Texas
Date: September 9th, 2020
Incidents involving Anthony Burns and Thomas Sims demonstrated that the federal government __________. A) had no desire to offend northern abolitionists B) would vigorously enforce the Fugitive Slave Law C) would only enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in the South D) would use the Fugitive Slave Law to recover blacks who fled to Canada […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
