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- Which factor helped the North to defeat the South in the Civil WarBritain was an important trading partner of the South.Northerners were fighting to preserve their way of life.The North had a more powerful navy than the South.The South had more enslaved persons than the North.
- Which argument did Federalists use in favor of adopting the Constitution?Americans cannot long survive half slave and half free.A stronger government will better protect America from outside enemies.A bill of rights is needed to protect individual liberties.Territories should be admitted as states on equal terms
- Which was an important reason for the spread of factories in America in the early-nineteenth century?Factory machines cost less than looms under the domestic system.Their machines could be driven by steam and water power.They had access to resources from the Great Plains.They made greater use of skilled labor.
- How did the publication of this book by Harriet Beecher Stowe promote the abolitionist movement?A-by making Southern state governments restrict plantation ownersB-by offering to buy slaves from Southern plantation ownersC-by depicting the brutality and inhumanity of slaveryD-by encouraging the expansion of slavery in new territories
- In which two newspapers are the headlines correctly dated?London Gazetteer and Charleston CourierBoston Intelligencer and Harper's WeeklyLondon Gazetteer and Harper's WeeklyBoston Intelligencer and Charleston Couri
- What advice did President George Washington give to the nation in his Farewell Address of 1796?Americans should avoid permanent alliances with other nations.The United States has the right to intervene in Latin America if necessary.European countries should not try to establish new colonies in the Western Hemisphere.A new and weak nation should ally itself with stronger nations.
- What was the main goal of the Women's Rights Movement after the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?A-to increase the pay of women workersB-to expand the number of women managersC-to gain the right to vote for womenD-to allow women to join labor unions
- What has been an important impact of the First Amendment?Americans of all religions have been able to live in harmony.People are free to say anything they wish, even if it harms others.People have been unable to teach their religious beliefs to their children.Each state has been able to establish its own state religion.
- Locate and label the cities at the ends of each trail. Also locate and label the city of Independence.
- Label the Louisiana Territory on your map and highlight its borders. What year was it added to the United States? How did adding this region change the size of the nation?
- Locate and label Sacramento. Where did the trail that settlers took to reach this city leave the Oregon Trail? Locate and label that place on your map.
- Highlight the borders of Texas and the Mexican Cession and label these two regions. When was each region added to the United States?
- The Mayflower Compact (1620) was an important step in the development of American democracy because itA-granted all males the right to voteestablished freedom of religioncreated the first colonial courtspromoted respect for self-government
- "Thus, fellow citizens, have I pointed out what I thought necessary to be amended in our Federal Constitution. I beg you to call to mind our glorious Declaration of Independence, read it, and compare it with the Federal Constitution; what a degree of apostasy (abandonment of belief) will you not discover. Therefore, guard against allencroachments upon our liberties so dearly purchased with the costly expense of blood and treasure6. The opinion expressed in the excerpt would most likelv have been held byA. an advocate of republican motherhoodC. a LoyalistB. an Anti-Federalist
- Which major problem in the textile industry was solved by the inventions of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright?
- Which law outlawed labor unions and strikes in Britain?
- The Factory Act of 1833 constituted a major victory in preventing the exploitation of children in that it
- The Federalist papers challenged the conventional political wisdom of the eighteenth century when they asserted that
- On Map 20.1: The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, ca. 1850, which location appears to be the largest industrial area?
- The following is an excerpt from the testimony of Ann Eggley, an eighteen-year-old mine worker (Viewpoints):"We go at four in the morning, and sometimes at half-past four. . . . We get out after four, sometimes at five, in the evening. We work the whole time except an hour for dinner, and sometimes we haven't time to eat. I hurry [move coal wagons underground] by myself, and have done so for long. I know the corves [small coal wagons] are very heavy, they are the biggest corves anywhere about. The work is far too hard for me; the sweat runs off me all over sometimes. I am very tired at night. Sometimes when we get home at night we have not power to wash us, and then we go to bed. Sometimes we fall asleep in the chair. Father said last night it was both a shame and a disgrace for girls to work as we do, but there was naught else for us to do."Which statement is implied by Eggley's testimony?