US History 101 Straighterline Final Exam Questions & Answers Graded A+

The industrial revolution in the United States - ANSWER-created a widening gap between the north and south The Puritan founders of the Massachusetts Bay colony - ANSWER-were intent on building a model community The nation emerged from its second war with England - ANSWER-better prepared to settle its western territories The doctrine of nullification argued that - ANSWER-A state could refuse to implement a federal law The emancipation proclamation - ANSWER-freed no slaves In the federal constitution, the following decision was made regarding how slaves would be counted - ANSWER-they would be counted for both taxation and representation (3/5ths) The impact of the controversy over the expansion of slavery into the western territories can best be seen in - ANSWER-The compromise of 1850 The articles of confederation put the importance of states above that of the central government in all the following ways except - ANSWER-all western lands had to be turned over to the central government If Lincoln had lived through his second term, it is most likely that - ANSWER-North and South would have found more reasonable ways to get along the south, in the decade following the civil war - ANSWER-saw the emergence of a commercial, urban "New South."