Chapter 9 APUSH Quiz

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The economic growth of the South relied primarily on the export of goods to which of the following?

Europe

Which of the following was a direct effect of the German and Irish immigration wave of the 1830s-1860s?

an upsurge in nativist sentiment

Which of the following was a direct effect of the trend in immigration after 1845 shown on the graph?

an upsurge in nativist sentiment

Which of the following was a significant cause of the Irish and German immigration wave of the 1830s-1860s?

economic and political difficulties in Germany and Ireland

All of the following were true of the slave plantation system in the South EXCEPT that

its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers

The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the

midwest and northeast

By the mid-nineteenth century

most slaves lived on large plantations

The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to

natural reproduction

By 1860 a vast majority of white Southerners

owned no slaves

Among the fears that led the anti-foreign or nativist movement of the period 1840-1850s was which of the following?

rapid growth of the Catholic population

The primary objective of the founders of the KNow-Nothing party was

restriction of the rights of immigrants

As a result of the development of the cotton gin

slavery revived and expanded

Which of the following was a major difference in economic development between the Northeast and the South in the first half of the 1800s?

the South relied much less on wage labor than the Northeast

What was the "pull factor" that made it possible for large numbers of Irish and German immigrants to settle in the United States in the 1830s-1860s?

the emergence of an industrialized economy

The Irish and German immigration waves of the 1830s-1860s most directly resulted in

the formation of a political party that promoted nativism

The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to

the natural population increase of American-born slaves

The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was

the potato famine

The immigrants who arrived from the mid-1800s onward tended to avoid what area?

the south

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about free blacks in antebellum America?

they supported the American colonization society's approach to ending slavery

Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these immigrants

were Roman Catholic

When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they

were too poor to move west and buy land


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