AMH 2010 Chapter 8 Exam Questions and Answers With Verified Solutions 2025
In 1790, the highest percentage of people of English descent lived in: - ✔✔New England
In 1790, the highest percentage of enslaved Africans lived in: - ✔✔the South
There was little use of indentured servants or slaves in New England because: - ✔✔it was an impractical
place to cultivate cash crops
New England was the most uniform region in America for all of the following reasons - ✔✔Puritan
values, few blacks and native Americans
What was different about the population of New England compared to other regions? - ✔✔Women
outnumbered men
The most ethnically and religiously diverse region in early America was: - ✔✔mid-Atlantic region
Mid-Atlantic culture was characterized by all of the following - ✔✔rich diversity of ethnicity and religion,
wider job market, "breadbasket" of American Farming
What factor made the South the populous region in the early United States? - ✔✔large number of slaves
Slaves made up the majority of the population in all of the following regions except in - ✔✔Piedmont
region near the Appalalachian Mountains
Social tensions between lowcountry and backcountry Southerners included vast differences in... -
✔✔wealth and religious practices
Which geographic region best describes the American West in 1790? - ✔✔Appalachian Mountains to
the Mississippi River
, During the 1780s, all of the following happened in the West - ✔✔Mortality rates were high, especially
among infants, slavery spread into the southern regions of the West, white population surpassed the
Native American population
Occupied land even though they held no title on it - ✔✔Squatters
Describe the Northwest in 1790 - ✔✔British forts not abandoned, Indians wished to stop the spread of
American settlers, British encouraged separatist movements.
The national census of 1790 revealed that the number of white and black Americans was: -
✔✔4,000,000
At the time of George Washington's first inauguration, all of the following were true - ✔✔two states had
not yet ratified the Constitution, conditions in the West were unstable, the government faced a huge
debt.
John Adams proposed that George Washington be addressed as: - ✔✔His Highness
The most democratic members of Congress felt that George Washington should be addressed as: -
✔✔Mr. President
The first government's base of support was strengthened by: - ✔✔passing the Bill of Rights
Congress increased the power of the President when it allowed the executive to: - ✔✔nominate and
dismiss officials in the presidential cabinet
Act of Congress that implemented the judiciary clause of the Constitution by establishing the Supreme
Court and a system of lower federal courts. - ✔✔Judiciary Act of 1789
Sectional differences arose over the debate about: - ✔✔the specific aspects of the tariff act of 1789
Madison wanted to place especially high duty taxes on imports from: - ✔✔Britain
In 1790, the highest percentage of people of English descent lived in: - ✔✔New England
In 1790, the highest percentage of enslaved Africans lived in: - ✔✔the South
There was little use of indentured servants or slaves in New England because: - ✔✔it was an impractical
place to cultivate cash crops
New England was the most uniform region in America for all of the following reasons - ✔✔Puritan
values, few blacks and native Americans
What was different about the population of New England compared to other regions? - ✔✔Women
outnumbered men
The most ethnically and religiously diverse region in early America was: - ✔✔mid-Atlantic region
Mid-Atlantic culture was characterized by all of the following - ✔✔rich diversity of ethnicity and religion,
wider job market, "breadbasket" of American Farming
What factor made the South the populous region in the early United States? - ✔✔large number of slaves
Slaves made up the majority of the population in all of the following regions except in - ✔✔Piedmont
region near the Appalalachian Mountains
Social tensions between lowcountry and backcountry Southerners included vast differences in... -
✔✔wealth and religious practices
Which geographic region best describes the American West in 1790? - ✔✔Appalachian Mountains to
the Mississippi River
, During the 1780s, all of the following happened in the West - ✔✔Mortality rates were high, especially
among infants, slavery spread into the southern regions of the West, white population surpassed the
Native American population
Occupied land even though they held no title on it - ✔✔Squatters
Describe the Northwest in 1790 - ✔✔British forts not abandoned, Indians wished to stop the spread of
American settlers, British encouraged separatist movements.
The national census of 1790 revealed that the number of white and black Americans was: -
✔✔4,000,000
At the time of George Washington's first inauguration, all of the following were true - ✔✔two states had
not yet ratified the Constitution, conditions in the West were unstable, the government faced a huge
debt.
John Adams proposed that George Washington be addressed as: - ✔✔His Highness
The most democratic members of Congress felt that George Washington should be addressed as: -
✔✔Mr. President
The first government's base of support was strengthened by: - ✔✔passing the Bill of Rights
Congress increased the power of the President when it allowed the executive to: - ✔✔nominate and
dismiss officials in the presidential cabinet
Act of Congress that implemented the judiciary clause of the Constitution by establishing the Supreme
Court and a system of lower federal courts. - ✔✔Judiciary Act of 1789
Sectional differences arose over the debate about: - ✔✔the specific aspects of the tariff act of 1789
Madison wanted to place especially high duty taxes on imports from: - ✔✔Britain
