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- What is one way that the newly drafted Constitution reflected the principles of republicanism?a.)All federal representatives would be elected by the citizens of each state by popular vote.b.)Electors, rather than individual voters, cast votes for president and vice president.c.)It allowed for individual voters to determine who should be president.d.)The government agreed to regulate and impose penalties on the international slave trade.
- Who were the two most prominent members of the transcendentalist movement?
- Which of the following was an effect of the Indian Removal Act?a.)Southern slave owners were horrified by the legislation.b.)The Cherokee Nation was finally able to assimilate to white culture.c.)The cultures of the Southeastern tribes were greatly disrupted.d.)The Supreme Court upheld the Act in Worcester v. Georgia.
- What came to be redefined as a personal moral quality associated more and more closely with women?
- The women who protested during the Shoemakers' Strike in Lynn compared their condition to that of:
- The American railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century:
- Henry Clay's stand in the election of 1844
- Which statement is true about the difference between farming in the Old Northwest and the Northeast?
- What was the name of the Treaty that ended the Mexican/American war?
- What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s?
- In the first half of the nineteenth century, what city became known as "Porkopolis"?
- Day Americans celebrate our independence
- In 1829, Lydia Maria Child wrote a popular book called:
- Countries that left the Oregon Territory after the Monroe Doctrine
- According to the Mormons, who was God's prophet?
- What did Harriet Noble conclude about her family's move from New York to Michigan after the War of 1812?
- Which of the following was responsible for the first large-scale American factory, which was built in Massachusetts?
- Most of the states that joined the Union in the six years immediately following the War of 1812 were located:
- In the early decades of the nineteenth century, what helped shape southern Ohio?
- According to nineteenth-century American society, who would be a good representative of the "cult of domesticity"?