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Based on the reading and the This American Life story that you listened to, what about his trip to the United States saddened the Marquis de Lafayette?
1. Lafayette was upset by the role that slavery played in American society.
2. Lafayette was saddened by the way that the revolution turned out in his own country, France.
3. Lafayette was saddened that Americans had effectively driven the Indians of the eastern United States--a "people of freedom"--into extinction.
4. Lafayette regretted that Americans increasingly disliked French people and identified with the British, even though the United States and Great Britain had already fought two wars.
5. None of the above are correct.
Which of the following statements describes westward migration at the beginning of the nineteenth century?
1.The westward expansion of the United States was greatly aided by technological developments in long-distance transportation and communication.
2.Lots of people were moving west, into what we now think of as the "middle" of the United States--the area around the Mississippi River, in the South, and between the Great Lakes ("Midwest") and the Ohio River, in the North.
3.Americans did not pay much attention to existing land claims, whether from other countries or Indians, as they moved into and settled new territory.
4.In the South, westward migration coincided with an agricultural shift towards the production of cotton on giant plantations, using enslaved workers.
5.None of the above are correct.
How did labor change with the rise of the factory system in the northern United States?
1.Factories cut costs by relying on enslaved labor, leading to a massive, forced migration northward.
2.Because their high wages made possible a middle-class lifestyle, factories became the primary site of labor for young men looking to start families.
3.Factories tended to rely on the labor of socially and politically less-powerful groups, like women, children, and immigrants.
4.Because they enjoyed the freedom that came with an income, women who went to work in the factories tended to remain as factory workers for most of their lives.
5.None of the above are correct.
What role did religion play in American life during the Market Revolution?
1.Groups like the transcendentalists and the Methodists argued that people had to take personal responsibility for moral decision-making and warned that many Americans were headed in the wrong direction with their lives.
2.Just as the Constitution gave the United States a more centralized form of government, the Second Great Awakening called Americans back to more centralized, hierarchical forms of religion, and especially to a major expansion of the Catholic Church in the United States.
3.As more Americans moved into the "secular" marketplace, Christian churches steadily shrank in size and influence, leaving America as a less-and-less religious place.
4.The religious freedom of the United States relaxed hostilities between groups, making America the one place where Catholics and Protestants could get along, and where new groups like the Mormons could practice their faith without fear of persecution.
5.None of the above are correct.
Which of the following statements would Foner agree with?
1.During the Market Revolution, the growth of cities, like Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston, created lots of new opportunities for African Americans to accumulate wealth and even some political power.
2.The shift of women to working in factories and as domestic servants led to a new appreciation of women as equal to men in terms of their ability to be workers and citizens.
3.The Market Revolution was an example of the saying that "a rising tide lifts all boats": it improved the prosperity and lives of all Americans.
4.The Market Revolution helped lead to conflict, because a lot of Americans were uncomfortable with the idea of working for wages as someone else's employee, especially when they saw employers as wealthy and powerful at the expense of workers.
5.None of the above are correct.
How does a state's population impact that state's political power?
1.Population does not matter, because every state gets the same number of representatives (2 Senators) in Congress.
2.A state's population determines its relative importance in Presidential elections--smaller states, like Rhode Island, don't get as many Electoral College votes.
3.States with greater population have more influence in Presidential elections.
4.States with small populations can lose their statehood and be absorbed by their larger neighbors under the doctrine of "eminent domain."
5.None of the above are correct.
Why, based on the lecture, did a Constitutional disagreement arise over how to count a state's population?
1.Northerners wanted to Indians/Native Americans in a state's population, but Southerners only wanted to count white men.
2.Northerners opposed counting slaves on the basis that Southerners treated slaves as property, rather than as human beings ("you wouldn t count chickens in the state's population").
3.Southerners opposed counting slaves as part of the population, because they feared that it would lead to slaves being allowed to vote.
4.Slaves made up an extremely large percentage of the population in some Southern states, so whether or not to count them made a drastic difference in the Congressional clout (power) of those states.
5.None of the above are correct.
Which of the following statements is true, based on the 3/5 Compromise?
1.The 3/5 Compromise ensured that the Southern states would always have more political power than the Northern states.
2.The text of the 3/5 Compromise is the only place where the word "slave" appears in the Constitution.
3.Since slaves counted towards population, slave states could actually boost their political power in Congress by importing more slaves from Africa.
4.The 3/5 Compromise had nothing to do with slavery.
5.None of the above are correct.
The lecture describes the 3/5 Compromise as a "poison pill." Over the long term, who "got sick"?
1.Slaveholding states would get sick, since population growth amongst people in the "free" states counted more towards representation than population growth amongst enslaved people in the "slave" states.
2.The Northern states would get sick, because they tended to have smaller populations than the Southern states, even without counting the slaves.
3.The Senate got sick, because people only cared about the House of Representatives when it came to Congress.
4.The United States got sick, because the Constitution did not solve the slavery problem.
5.None of the above are correct.