1. Which of the following would be the best primary source to include in an analysis of the early
Virginia colony?
 collection of letters and memoirs by John Rolfe
2. Which of the following would be best secondary source for analyzing the market revolution?
 Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
3. Which would be the least useful for making an interpretation of events leading to the American
Revolution?
 The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
4. Which of the following would be the most important information for explaining Andrew
Jackson's "bank war"?
 Newspapers from the 1830s, including cartoons attacking "King Andrew"
5. Which of the following was most important in the history of slavery in America?
 The Dred Scott decision
6. Which of the following was least important to westward expansion?
 The creation of the national road and the Erie canal
 The invention of the cotton gin
 Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
 The Mexican-American War