US History 101 WGU Academy Final Study Guide with complete solutions

Industrial Revolution in the United States? - ANSWER-Created a widening gap between the North and South. The Puritan founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony? - ANSWER-Were intent on building a model community. The nation emerged from it's second war with England? - ANSWER-Better prepared to settle it's 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. The impact of the controversy over the expansion of slavery into the western territories can best be seem in? - ANSWER-The compromise of 1850. The Articles of Confederation put the importance of states and be 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 of getting along. The South, in the decade following the Civil War? - ANSWER-Saw the emergence of commercial, urban "New South." North America before European colonization? - ANSWER-Was vulnerable to common European diseases. American policy towards Indian tribes in the 1830's focused on? - ANSWER-Isolating them as far west as possible into undeveloped areas. Political parties emerged in the 1790's because? - ANSWER-Hamilton's economic policies were deeply divisive. As tensions mounted between North and South over westward expansion in the late 1840's, the results of the Mexican War? - ANSWER-Incresed sectional friction by setting up a debate over the future of slavery in California. In the early American colonies, which group was made up of the most radical Puritans? - ANSWER-Separatists How did the Enlightenment affect the intellectualism in colonial America? - ANSWER-It stimulated the study of science and reason. In the French and Indian War, which advantage allowed the British to defeat the French at Quebec? - ANSWER-Larger colonial populations What was the result of the Great Compromise of 1787 during the constitutional convention? - ANSWER-The creation of a representative two- house legislature. What was the unintended consequence of the invention of the cotton gin in the early 1800's? - ANSWER-Slavery expanded in the South due to the increased amount of cotton that could be produced. What result of the War of 1812 helped change the composition of the United States? - ANSWER-New opportunities for westward expansion led to growth in territory and population. What quality defined the group of American painters of the 19th century known as the Hudson River School? - ANSWER-They were greatly inspired by the American landscape. What was the main goal of the Abolitionist movement in the 1800's? - ANSWER-The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. How did the Civil War transform opportunities for commonly discriminated against groups? - ANSWER-Women became increasingly accepted in the role of medical caregivers. What was the main goal of the Nativist movement in the 1800's? - ANSWER-to enact stricter naturalization laws