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“The expansion of the South [from 1800 to 1850] across the Appalachians and the Mississippi River to the fringes of the high plains was one of the great American folk wanderings. Motivated by the longing for fresh and cheap land,… Southerners completed their occupation of a region as large as western Europe. Despitethe variety of the land, . . . the settlers of the Southwest had certain broad similarities. They might be farmers large or small, but most farmed or lived by serving the needs of farmers. . . . Not all owned or ever would own slaves, but most accepted slavery as a mode of holding and creating wealth.” — Albert E. Cowdrey, historian, This Land, This South: An Environmental History, 1983 Which of the following contributed most directly to the population movement described in the excerpt?

“The normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom. That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national [western] territory, ordained that ‘no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law,’ it becomes our duty by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, orof any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.” — Republican Party platform, 1860 The ideas expressed in the excerpt were most directly influenced by the 

“No roads marked the way to the traveler in California then; but, guided by the sun and well-known mountain peaks, we proceeded on our journey…. Some forty or fifty men were at work with the cradle machines, and were averaging about eight ounces [of gold] per day to the man. But a few moments passed before I was knee deep in water, with my wash-basin full of dirt, plunging it about endeavoring to separate the dirt from the gold. After washing some fifty pans of dirt, I found I had realized about four bits’ worth of gold. Reader, do you know how [one] feels when the gold fever heat has suddenly fallen to about zero? I do…. The Indians who were working for Capts. Sutter and Weber gave them leading information, so that they were enabled to know the direction in which new discoveries were to be made…. The morals of the miners of ’48 should here be noticed. No person worked on Sunday at digging for gold…. We had ministers of the gospel amongst us, but they never preached. Religion had been forgotten, even by its ministers, and instead of their pointing out the narrow way which leads to eternal happiness…. they might have been seen, with pick-axe and pan, traveling untrodden [untraveled] ways in search of … treasure… or drinking good health and prosperity with friends.”  — James H. Carson, describing life in the early California gold fields, 1848 Which of the following developments MOST directly led to the activities described in the excerpt? 

“I know not how to thank you for the deep and lively interest you have been pleased to take in the cause of … the emancipation of a people, who, for two long centuries, have endured, with the utmost patience, a bondage, one hour of which… is worse than ages of that which your fathers rose in rebellion to oppose.  “It is such indications on the part of the press – which, happily, are multiplying throughout the land – that kindle up within me an ardent hope that the curse of slavery will not much longer be permitted to make its iron foot-prints in the lacerated [deeply cut] hearts of my…brethren…. I am called, by way of reproach, a runaway slave.  As if it were a crime – an unpardonable crime – for a man to take his unalienable rights!  “But why [you], a New York editor, born and reared in the State of Maine, far removed from the contaminated… atmosphere of slavery, should pursue such a course [supporting abolition], is not so apparent. I will not, however, stop here to acertain the cause, but deal with fact…. “The object… is simply to give such an exposition of the degrading influence of slavery upon the master and his [supporters] as well as upon the slave – to excite such an intelligent interest on the subject of American slavery – as may react upon that country, and tend to shame her out of her adhesion to a system which all must confess to disagree with justice….  I am earnestly and anxiously laboring to wipe off this foul blot from the… American people, that they may accomplish in behalf of human freedom that which their exalted position among the nations of the earth amply fits them to do.”  — Frederick Douglass to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, 1846 Rhetoric in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting which of the following? 

Please download a copy of the Midterm Excel workbook (When you click on the link, it will open in a new window. Select the “Download BUSAD 525 Midterm” link and save a copy of the file to your computer using the following naming convention: BUSAD525_Midterm_LastName) Complete the problems provided on the Excel spreadsheets.  There are 4 tabbed spreadsheets, one for each problem.  When you have completed all the problems, save your Excel workbook and upload the file by clicking on the “Choose a File” button below. When you have completed all the problems, save your Excel workbook and upload the file. (Please use the following naming convention for your file: BUSAD525_Midterm_LastName)

In a one-tailed hypothesis test, the alternative hypothesis specifies: .

The shares of two companies, A and B have the following expected returns: Prob Return A Return B.1 20% 10%.4 25% 15%.5 30% 25%The expected returns for A and B are:

By referring to Problem 11, the covariance of the returns of A and B are:

Part 1:  Multiple-choice questions to test your understanding of the concepts 20 questions, worth 1 point each

if you own 14,000 shares of stock of Nike and it pays a dividend of ​$0.23 per​ share, then what is the total dividend you will​ receive?