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Most northern abolition laws _________________
a. Only promised to liberate future children born to an enslaved mother b. Only promised to
free women currently enslaved
c. Only promised to free elderly slaves
d. Only promised to transfer slaves to lifelong indentured servitude - Answer✔A
Which of these states had slaves until the end of the Civil War?
a. Connecticut
b. New York
c. New Jersey
d. Pennsylvania - Answer✔C
Which of the following had the greatest impact on the spread of slavery?
a. Haitian Revolution
b. Invention of the cotton gin
c. Growth of the American textile industry
d. Louisiana Purchase - Answer✔B
Economic catastrophes occurred in all of the following years except?
a. 1819
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b. 1828
c. 1837
d. 1857 - Answer✔B. 1828
The Erie Canal connected industry and consumers in the east with what group?
a. Southern planters
b. Canadian fur traders
c. Midwestern farmers
d. New England fishers - Answer✔C. Midwestern farmers
The steamboat most benefited which of the following cities?
a. New York City
b. Richmond
c. St. Louis
d. Boston - Answer✔C. St. Louis
How did the market revolution change the nature of the American family?
a. The domestic sphere increasingly signified a family's class status
b. Educated, wealthy women began to entire the workforce
c. Americans began to value the idea of childhood less
d. Divorce became more common - Answer✔A.
The market revolution brought an innovation in labor practices called "piece work." What is the
piece work system?
a. Use of skilled, industrialized union labor
b. Division of production into discrete steps performed by different workers
c. A system where laborers in manufacturing typically worked at every stage of
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production
d. Employment of young girls in highly supervised factory towns - Answer✔B.
What was the initial purpose of the legal status of incorporation?
a. To fund projects for the public good
b. To aid the development of American merchants in relation to their European competitors
c. To form the Second Bank of the United States
d. To help workers as they tried to form unions - Answer✔A.
During which era was a laborer LEAST likely to live with their employer
a. 1700-1776
b. 1776-1812
c. 1812-1840
d. There was little change in the living situation of most laborers during these eras - Answer✔C.
Which group of women was most likely to work outside of the home in antebellum America?
a. Poor women
b. Middle class women
c. Upper class women
d. Very few women worked outside of the home, regardless of class - Answer✔A.
Irish immigrants to the United States typically settled in what areas?
a. Northeastern cities
b. Midwestern farming communities
c. Southern cities
d. Backcountry rural communities - Answer✔A.
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American Yawp Exam Questions And
Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass
Most northern abolition laws _________________
a. Only promised to liberate future children born to an enslaved mother b. Only promised to
free women currently enslaved
c. Only promised to free elderly slaves
d. Only promised to transfer slaves to lifelong indentured servitude - Answer✔A
Which of these states had slaves until the end of the Civil War?
a. Connecticut
b. New York
c. New Jersey
d. Pennsylvania - Answer✔C
Which of the following had the greatest impact on the spread of slavery?
a. Haitian Revolution
b. Invention of the cotton gin
c. Growth of the American textile industry
d. Louisiana Purchase - Answer✔B
Economic catastrophes occurred in all of the following years except?
a. 1819
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b. 1828
c. 1837
d. 1857 - Answer✔B. 1828
The Erie Canal connected industry and consumers in the east with what group?
a. Southern planters
b. Canadian fur traders
c. Midwestern farmers
d. New England fishers - Answer✔C. Midwestern farmers
The steamboat most benefited which of the following cities?
a. New York City
b. Richmond
c. St. Louis
d. Boston - Answer✔C. St. Louis
How did the market revolution change the nature of the American family?
a. The domestic sphere increasingly signified a family's class status
b. Educated, wealthy women began to entire the workforce
c. Americans began to value the idea of childhood less
d. Divorce became more common - Answer✔A.
The market revolution brought an innovation in labor practices called "piece work." What is the
piece work system?
a. Use of skilled, industrialized union labor
b. Division of production into discrete steps performed by different workers
c. A system where laborers in manufacturing typically worked at every stage of
2
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production
d. Employment of young girls in highly supervised factory towns - Answer✔B.
What was the initial purpose of the legal status of incorporation?
a. To fund projects for the public good
b. To aid the development of American merchants in relation to their European competitors
c. To form the Second Bank of the United States
d. To help workers as they tried to form unions - Answer✔A.
During which era was a laborer LEAST likely to live with their employer
a. 1700-1776
b. 1776-1812
c. 1812-1840
d. There was little change in the living situation of most laborers during these eras - Answer✔C.
Which group of women was most likely to work outside of the home in antebellum America?
a. Poor women
b. Middle class women
c. Upper class women
d. Very few women worked outside of the home, regardless of class - Answer✔A.
Irish immigrants to the United States typically settled in what areas?
a. Northeastern cities
b. Midwestern farming communities
c. Southern cities
d. Backcountry rural communities - Answer✔A.
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