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Chapter 5- The Constitution Becomes a Reality
GEOGRAPHY APPLICATION
Responses may vary on the inferential questions. Sample responses are given for those.
1. It provided insufficient control on a president, allowed states’ rights to be ignored, placed rule in the hands of the wealthy, and lacked a bill
of rights.
2. three; Rhode Island had opposed the Constitution—the establishment of a national government—from the beginning.
3. New Hampshire; it was the ninth state to ratify, and ratification by 9 of the 13 states was necessary.
4. New Jersey and Delaware
5. The major urban centers of the new nation were along the coast. The commercial and trade businesses and much of the money—all of the
interests that favored ratification—were located in these areas.
6. Poorer people with less land—such as small farmers—lived inland. These people had many criticisms of the Constitution and had reason to
fear that their situations would be overlooked.
7. The very small area of Federalist majority in New York state happens to be the most densely populated, being the location of New York City.
The outlying areas of the state were obviously sparsely populated.
The Living Constitution
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Responses may vary on the inferential questions. Sample responses are given for those.
1. It was a compromise between those who wanted Congress to elect the president and those who wanted the people to elect the chief executive.
2. It is equal to a state’s total members in the House and Senate.
3. Some of the delegates either mistrusted the average American citizen’s motives or had a low opinion of his ability to cast an informed vote.
4. Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia; 3
5. Citizens vote for candidates, who actually represent a group of electors in their states. The winning group of electors then cast votes directly
for a presidential candidate.
6. Though losing the overall popular vote, a candidate can manage to become president by winning, however slightly, in many or most of the
largest of the states and capturing all their high number of electoral votes.
7. Citizens expect the “winner” of the popular vote to be the president and can be shocked and suspicious if the electoral vote that comes later
proves to have a different outcome.
Chapter 6- The Louisiana Purchase
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Responses may vary on the inferential questions. Sample responses are given for those.
1. 47° down to 31° North latitude and 95° to 67° West latitude; 48° down to 31° North latitude (with an inlet down to 29° North latitude) and
112° to 67° West latitude.
2. Britain; Spain
3. New Orleans
4. The United States virtually doubled in size.
5. the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Rocky Mountains on the west
6. the Mississippi River
7. Missouri River, Arkansas River, Red River, and the Ohio River
8. Risks might include acquiring land with hostile elements, possible rebellion in new territories, and the burden of defending all this expanded
territory.
Chapter 7- Jackson Finally Becomes President
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Responses may vary on the inferential questions. Sample responses are given for those.
1. Maine, New York, Maryland
2. Maine, like two other states, is shaded with the patterns that identify each candidate, in proportion to that candidate’s portion of the electoral votes received; Adams got six votes to Jackson’s five, which is indicated by having slightly over half of Maryland’s territory being shaded
with Adams’s pattern.
3. 141,565 popular votes; 79 electoral votes
4. the territory to the south and west of New England and the upper Atlantic Coast.
5. New England was the wealthiest section of the country, and Adams came to represent money and prosperity.
6. Jackson, leader of the party that became today’s Democratic Party, had unchallenged, total support in the South.
7. Westward expansion would seem to add strength to the Democratic Party.
Chapter 8- The Dramatic Rise of Immigration
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Responses may vary on the inferential questions. Sample responses are given for those.
1. 1854; about 427,000; German
2. about 4 times larger; about 3 times larger
3. about 394,000 people; 1851; 185
4. 1846
5. It surpassed them by more than 200,000 people.
6. Generally German immigrants were not as poor as Irish immigrants. They tended to have enough money to venture further west into the
United States rather than stay in the large port cities of their arrival. Irish immigrants accepted lower-paying jobs and eventually were active
in unions to improve their conditions.
7. 1846 to 1851; 1851 to 1854