Question 1

Which of the following was not one of the causes of nationwide epidemics in the United States during the antebellum period?

Accepted Answer

A)  Municipal health boards had little power and therefore could do nothing to stop diseases from spreading. 
B)  People distrusted physicians and their advice. 
C)  Doctors did not understand the causes of disease. 
D)  The transportation revolution enabled epidemics to spread. 
E)  The widespread use of laughing gas by young people seriously suppressed their immune systems. 
A)  Municipal health boards had little power and therefore could do nothing to stop diseases from spreading. 
B)  People distrusted physicians and their advice. 
C)  Doctors did not understand the causes of disease. 
D)  The transportation revolution enabled epidemics to spread. 
E)  The widespread use of laughing gas by young people seriously suppressed their immune systems.

Question 2

How did the McCormick reaper help the North when the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

A)  It forced the South to invest more and more into slavery to keep up production 
B)  It proved to the border states that the North was technologically more advanced. 
C)  It allowed the North to keep agricultural production high even though many farmers went to fight. 
D)  It ensured that France would remain pro-North during the war. 
E)  It enabled the North to grow more corn than the South. 
A)  It forced the South to invest more and more into slavery to keep up production 
B)  It proved to the border states that the North was technologically more advanced. 
C)  It allowed the North to keep agricultural production high even though many farmers went to fight. 
D)  It ensured that France would remain pro-North during the war. 
E)  It enabled the North to grow more corn than the South.

Question 3

In his 1837 address "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that Americans needed to

Accepted Answer

A)  improve their literature by emulating European forms. 
B)  trust themselves rather than rely on Europeans for their sense of culture. 
C)  create literature that conformed to universal standards of beauty and taste. 
D)  reform their education system. 
E)  to turn away from scholarship and concentrate on farming. 
A)  improve their literature by emulating European forms. 
B)  trust themselves rather than rely on Europeans for their sense of culture. 
C)  create literature that conformed to universal standards of beauty and taste. 
D)  reform their education system. 
E)  to turn away from scholarship and concentrate on farming.

Which of the following was not one of the causes of nationwide epidemics in the United States during the antebellum period?

How did the McCormick reaper help the North when the Civil War?

In his 1837 address "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that Americans needed to

Native Peoples of America

The Rise of the Atlantic World

The Emergence of Colonial Societies

The Bonds of Empire

Roads to Revolution

Securing Independence, Defining Nationhood

Launching the New Republic

America at War and Peace

The Transformation of American Society

Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform

The Old South and Slavery

Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict

From Compromise to Secession

Crucible of Freedom: Civil War

Reconstruction and Resistance

The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West

The Rise of Industrial America

Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life

Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age

The Progressive Era

Global Involvements and World War I

Coping With Change

The Great Depression and the New Deal

Americans and a World in Crisis

The Cold War Abroad and at Home

America at Midcentury

Liberalism, Civil Rights, and War in Vietnam

A Time of Upheaval

A Conservative Revival and the End of the Cold War

A Changing Nation: Homefront Crises and New Global Realities

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Exam 11: Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life

Which of the following was not one of the causes of nationwide epidemics in the United States during the antebellum period?

How did the McCormick reaper help the North when the Civil War?

In his 1837 address "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that Americans needed to

Native Peoples of America

The Rise of the Atlantic World

The Emergence of Colonial Societies

The Bonds of Empire

Roads to Revolution

Securing Independence, Defining Nationhood

Launching the New Republic

America at War and Peace

The Transformation of American Society

Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform

The Old South and Slavery

Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict

From Compromise to Secession

Crucible of Freedom: Civil War

Reconstruction and Resistance

The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West

The Rise of Industrial America

Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life

Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age

The Progressive Era

Global Involvements and World War I

Coping With Change

The Great Depression and the New Deal

Americans and a World in Crisis

The Cold War Abroad and at Home

America at Midcentury

Liberalism, Civil Rights, and War in Vietnam

A Time of Upheaval

A Conservative Revival and the End of the Cold War

A Changing Nation: Homefront Crises and New Global Realities

Filters