MTTC History 09 Questions & 100% Correct
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Scholars influenced by the Progressive school of historical interpretation would most likely
focus on which of the following issues in a study of the U.S. Constitution?
✓ -:- The economic interests of delegates to the Constitutional Convention
A historian would most likely use the term caste system in a study of
✓ -:- Socio Religious development in early Indian civilization.
Which of the following phrases, if inserted into lines 3 and 4 below, would be most
consistent with other elements in this periodization scheme for the organization of
Michigan history?
Natural history
French colonization
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______
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Statehood
✓ -:- 1. British Possession
2. U.S. Territory
Which of the following sources would be most helpful to a colonial historian examining
social stratification in eighteenth century Boston?
✓ -:- Tax lists
A historian who is studying the Industrial Revolution from a gender perspective would likely
find which of the following topics most interesting to investigate?
✓ -:- Inventions that changed iron making and machine tool production
Which of the following research questions would provide a basis for the most informative
and comprehensive study of the causes of the U.S. Civil War?
How did Abraham Lincoln win the 1860 presidential election with less than a majority of the
popular vote?
How extensive was northern investment in the South during the prewar period?
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What effect did westward expansion have on intersectional relations in the United States
during the antebellum period?
What proportion of the southern white population owned slaves before the Civil War?
✓ -:- What effect did westward expansion have on intersectional relations in the
United States during the antebellum period?
When examining a historical subject, which of the following steps in the research process
should a historian perform first?
-Select a research design for the study
-Review the secondary literature on the topic to be examined
-Forumulate a hypothesis for the study
-Create a system for organizing research data
✓ -:- Review the secondary literature on the topic to be examined
Researchers can best asses a written primary source for bias and accuracy by:
Identifying the central questions addressed by the source
Using evidence from other sources to corroborate information presented in the source
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Determining the date and geographic location of the author when the source was created
Comparing information presented in the source with later secondary interpretations.
✓ -:- Using evidence from other sources to corroborate information presented in the
source
There was a cause and effect relationship in late medieval Europe between the expansion
of trade and the:
Decline of papal authority
Growth of towns
Limited power of monarchs
Spread of manorialism
✓ -:- Growth of towns
A historian is conducting a comparative analysis of factors influencing the growth of four
port cities on the Eastern Seaboard between 1750 and 1860. The study involves the
collection of information on each city's changing population, ethnic composition,
investment in port and transportation infrastructure, shipping tonnage into and from the
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