Early U.S. Culture and Expansion

This map shows the populations of different U.S. states. Based on the map, which labeled state has the largest population?

• State A

• State B

• State C

• State D

Geographers use charts and graphs in order to:

• organize and represent data for a location.

• predict weather patterns for the next week
• measure distances between cities
• create artistic representations of landscapes

Which option is an example of a renewable resource?

• Nuclear energy
• Coal
• Solar energy
• Natural gas

Which option is the best example of a negative consequence of modifying the environment?

• Solar panels on homes and buildings generate electricity from sunlight.

• Wind farms generate clean and renewable energy in many states today.

• Terrace farming on hillsides allows farmers to rotate their crops and care for their soil.

• A dam disturbs natural fish habitats and causes the fish in the area to die.

Which factor led to large numbers of Irish and German immigrants arriving in the United States following the American Revolution?

• The Catholic Church began a missionary program focused on the United States.

• The United States offered more economic opportunities than Europe.

• The end of the slave trade led to a demand for labor in the United States.

• The U.S. government encouraged immigration by providing free housing.

Which statement best describes a major theme of James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans?

• The role of technology in modern society.
• The importance of friendship and loyalty.
• The inevitability of war and conflict.
• Contact between different cultures can be destructive.

In the United States, few children attended school in the early 19th century because:

• the highest-paying jobs in the country required little education.

• parents believed schools limited their children's creativity.

• public education programs were available only for male adults.

• rural children were expected to work on family farms.

In the early 19th century, state governments in the South passed slave codes that:

• allowed African Americans to elect their own political leaders.

• improved living conditions for African Americans enslaved on plantations.

• forced African Americans to leave the South unless they were enslaved.

• forbade African Americans from testifying against white people in court.

What was one major problem for free African Americans in the early 1800s?

• They were not allowed to get married.

• They were controlled by white slaveholders.

• They could not choose where to work.

• They had few options for education.

Frederick Douglass resisted slavery in the United States by:

• Promoting the expansion of slavery in the South.
• writing and publishing articles calling for racial equality.

• Writing a novel about the benefits of slavery.
• Joining the Confederate Army to support slaveholders.