Which of the following forms of transportation predominated before the 1820s and 1830s? a. national road systems b. canal systems c. steamboats d. flatboats e. railroads ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
President Washington steered a middle path in creating the executive branch of the federal government between the course advocated by Alexander Hamilton and his supporters (who admired British models of government) and the course advocated by John Adams (who recommended a more egalitarian approach). Answer: ANSWER TRUE
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the 1905 Taft-Katsura Agreement, __________. a. the United States and Japan agreed not to attack each other for at least 50 years b. the United States exchanged recognition of Japanese control of Korea for a Japanese pledge not to invade the Philippines c. Japan agreed to limit emigration to the United States d. the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the result of U.S. Army General Josiah Harmar’s September 1790 march into the Ohio territory of the Miami and Shawnees? A) It stopped all Indian attacks on frontier settlements in the Ohio and Indiana territories. B) General Harmar’s army was defeated by Shawnees, Miamis, and Pottawattamies and 500 Americans were killed before the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The most important change in Europe in the five hundred years between Leif Ericsson and Columbus was: a. the industrial revolution b. the revival of commerce and trade c. the creation of banks d. the growth of Protestant churches ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Like many of the elite Americans of his day, Jefferson considered himself a deist, defined as a person who A) rejected divine revelation and holds that the workings of nature alone reveal God’s divine nature. B) rejected God completely as any divine force in the natural or human worlds. C) accepted the divine revelation and […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The so-called “final fling” of settlement on the frontier occurred in __________. a. California b. Oklahoma c. Missouri d. Oregon e. Arizona ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
All of the following were causes for the War of 1812 EXCEPT A) the British policy of seizing sailors, or impressments, from U.S. merchant ships and occasionally warships on the high seas. B) the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 and Macon’s Bill No. 2. C) British political and military support for plans by Tecumseh to develop […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was challenging about settling the land west of the Mississippi River in the late 1800s? a. The region got little rainfall, and there was little lumber available for housing. b. The region was frequently flooded by its rivers, which made farming it difficult. c. The Great Plains had many deserts, and this made travel […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Why did the U.S. government oppose British Foreign Secretary George Canning’s proposed declaration in 1822 that Britain and the United States opposed European intervention in the Americas and that neither nation would assert any territorial interest in Latin America? A) The U.S. government didn’t have any objection to Spain reasserting its colonial presence in the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
