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CLEP US History I

Category - Economy

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All of the following statements are true about Westward Expansion in the 1830s and 1840s EXCEPT:
  1. Often those who moved westward did so as families or communities.
  2. Slavery, though a distinctive facet of Southern culture, was not adopted by the West.
  3. The railroad facilitated the growth of cities in the West.
  4. Politicians from the West became increasingly visible in national politics.
  5. Many of those who moved westward were motivated by the desire to grow cotton.
Explanation
Answer: B - Historians estimate that approximately a million slaves moved west with their owners, so as the nation grew so did the institution of slavery. Because cotton was the most profitable crop, and a rather labor-intensive one, those who struck out to farm cotton in the West brought slaves from the Southern states. The slave trade had been officially banned in 1808, although it continued illegally for decades.
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