The first transportation project to span the United States from the east coast to the Mississippi River was the __________. A) Erie Canal B) National Road C) Nauvoo Turnpike D) New York Central Railroad ANSWER Answer: B
In the middle-class industrial household, “home” became __________. A) an extension of the workplace B) a haven for leisure and relaxation C) a male-dominated place D) a school and church for children ANSWER Answer: B
What city benefited the most from the opening of the Erie Canal? A) New York B) Boston C) Philadelphia D) Chicago ANSWER Answer: A
The most significant demographic development of the period 1820-1860 was __________. A) the settlement of the Great Plains B) the development of suburbs C) rapid population growth in the cities D) the influx from the south of black workers ANSWER Answer: C
An important common denominator in the public education, temperance, antiprostitution, and asylum reform movements was leadership by __________. A) the working class B) women C) big-city machines D) evangelical ministers ANSWER Answer: B
Between 1820 to 1850, the economic status of free northern blacks __________. A) generally improved B) experienced little change C) generally deteriorated D) surpassed that of Germans and Irish ANSWER Answer: C
Discuss the problems of immigration that America’s urban centers faced and were unable to solve in the 1830s-1850s. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: urban poverty; crowding; municipal services; disease; crime; political corruption
In the early nineteenth century, these Indian tribes dominated the southern high plains. A) Navajos and Hopis B) Cherokees and Creeks C) Cherokees and Apaches D) Comanches and Apaches ANSWER Answer: D
The greatest spur to exploration of the North American continent from the 1670s to the 1840s was a quest for __________. A) farm lands B) pasture lands C) gold D) furs ANSWER Answer: D
Popular sovereignty was based on the accepted constitutional principle that decisions about slavery should be made __________. A) by the president B) by the courts C) at the state level D) at the national level ANSWER Answer: C