WGU Academy US History 1 Exam 3, Questions and answers, 2022 update, Graded A+

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WGU Academy US History 1 Exam 3, Questions and answers, 2022 update, Graded A+ President Martin Van Buren's "subtreasury" system - ✔✔consisted of a controversial, new financial system to repla... ce the Bank of the United States. Which of the following statements regarding the Bank of the United States is FALSE? - ✔✔President Jackson ordered the Bank closed before the expiration of its charter. In the 1830 Daniel Webster-Robert Hayne debate, Webster considered Hayne's arguments to be an attack on - ✔✔the integrity of the Union. In the 1820s, John C. Calhoun proposed his doctrine of nullification - ✔✔as an alternative to possible secession Senator Robert Hayne represented the state of - ✔✔South Carolina. According to Andrew Jackson's theory of democracy, - ✔✔all white male citizens should be treated equally. In 1830, what political figure said, "The Union, next to our liberty most dear"? - ✔✔John C. Calhoun Which statement about the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty is FALSE? - ✔✔It included an American pledge not to allow slave ships to land at British ports. The Massachusetts court case of Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) declared that - ✔✔labor unions were lawful organizations.By 1860, the energy for industrialization in the United States increasingly came from - ✔✔coal. In 1860, the percentage of the population in the South living in towns (places of 2,500 or more) or cities was - ✔✔10 percent. In the United States in the 1830s, limited liability laws were developed, which - ✔✔meant stockholders could not be charged with losses greater than their investment. Prior to 1860, perhaps the most significant invention for middle-class American homes was the - ✔✔cast-iron stove. Early American Victorian homes were characterized by - ✔✔dark colors, and rooms crowded with heavy furniture. Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum South? - ✔✔Up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members. Which of the following statements regarding slave life is true? - ✔✔After 1808, the proportion of blacks to whites in the nation steadily declined Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included - ✔✔singing songs and playing musical instruments, such as the banjo. Tobacco cultivation in the antebellum South - ✔✔was gradually moving westward. Prior to 1860, the center of economic power in the South - ✔✔shifted from the upper South to the lower South. Between 1840 and 1860, the American South's slave population - ✔✔dramatically shifted into the Southwest.George Fitzhugh believed that: - ✔✔Slavery should be extended to northern wageworkers as well as Southern plantation workers. Religious services for American slaves - ✔✔were often more emotional than white services. Prior to 1860, southern women differed from northern women in that they - ✔✔were expected to be more subordinate to men. A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was - ✔✔highly unlikely highly unlikely - ✔✔1808 The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the - ✔✔underground railroad Which of the following was arguably the most distinctive feature of Shakerism? - ✔✔complete celibacy The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to - ✔✔spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience. The transcendentalists - ✔✔anticipated the environmental movement of the twentieth century. (This is what I believe correct answer is from the book, I initially got this answer wrong on the test.) The most important and popular American paintings of the first half of the nineteenth century set out to - ✔✔evoke the wonder of the nation's landscape. The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill was - ✔✔Dorothea Dix. [Show More]

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