Practice Test Answers

In the 1700s, Anthony Benezet was a Quaker who

How did industrialization affect the American economy in the 1800s?

Which best describes nullification?

Enslaved people who lived and worked in cities

How did the introduction of the cotton gin affect enslaved workers on Southern plantations?

Many people moved to California in 1848 following

Americans who supported Manifest Destiny primarily believed that the United States should

The policy that allowed settlers in new territories to decide whether or not to allow slavery was called

Which statement best describes why many Southerners supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Which territory’s request to become a state sparked a battle over slavery in 1819?

In the late 1700s, as a result of mass production in the United States,

Which abolitionist led a military expedition during the Civil War?

As a result of Manifest Destiny, westward expansion in the mid-1800s

At the time of the Missouri Compromise, there was conflict between the North and the South because of

According to the US Constitution, states have legislative powers that

In May 1856, a proslavery mob attacked the town of