APUSH Chapter 15

E

"Varying Viewpoints" notes that Ulrich B. Phillips made certain claims about slavery that have been challenged in recent years. Which of the following is NOT one of his conclusions: A) slaves were racially inferior B) slavery was a dying economic institution C) planters treated their slaves with kindly paternalism D) slaves were passive by nature and did not abhor slavery E) Slavery was comparable to the Nazi concentration camps

A

Arrange the following in chronological order: the founding of the (A) American Colonization Society, (B) American Anti-Slavery Society, and (C) Liberty party: A) a, b, c B) c, a ,b C) b, c, a D) a, c, b E) c, b, a

E

As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the south: A) formed alliances with white imperialists in Africa B) adopted British attitudes toward the "peculiar institution" C) emancipated many slaves D) shed its image as a reactionary backwater E) developed a theory of biological racial superiority

C

As their main crop, souther subsistence farmers raised: A) cotton B) tobacco C) corn D) rice E) sugar cane

C

Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common: A) in the Deep South B) on the large plantations C) on small plantations and in the upper South D) in the decade before the Civil War E) as a punishment for running away

B

In 1839, enslaved Africans rose up aboard the Spanish slave ship: A) Isabelle B) Amistad C) Gerriere D) La Nina E) El Liberte

C

In some counties of the deep South, especially along the lower Mississippi River, blacks accounted fro more than ___ percent of the population: A) 25 B) 50 C) 75 D) 85 E) 95

E

Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because: A) it relied mainly on artificial means to fertilize the soil B) it required leaving cropland fallow every other year C) excessive water was used for irrigation D) it was too diversified, thus taking essential nutrients from the soil E) its excessive cultivation of cotton spoiled good land

D

Some souther slaves gained their freedom as a result of: A) the prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade after 1807 B) purchase by northern abolitionists C) fleeing to mountain hideaways D) purchasing their way out of slavery E) the objection to slaveholding by some white women

C

Which one of the following has the LEAST in common with the other four: A) Nat Turner B) David Walker C) John Quincy Adams D) Denmark Vesey E) Gabriel

C

said ___the following quote, "I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.": A) Jefferson Davis B) John C. Calhoun C) Ralph Waldo Emerson D) Abraham Lincoln E) Andrew Johnson

E

All of the following were characteristics of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century United States EXCEPT: A) slaves had no civil or political rights B) slaves usually toiled from dusk to dawn in the fields C) slaves had minimal protection from murder or unusually cruel punishment D) slaves were forbidden to testify in court and their marriages were no legal E) floggings were uncommon and rare

E

All of the following were true of slavery in the south EXCEPT that: A) slave life on the frontier was harder than that of life in the more settled areas B) a distinctive African American slave culture developed C) a typical planter had too much of his own prosperity riding on the backs of his slaves to beat them on a regular basis D) by 1860, most slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" of the Deep South E) most slaves were raised in single unstable parent households

E

By 1860, life for slaves was most difficult in the: A) Atlantic states of North and South Carolina B) Deep South states of Georgia and Florida C) territories of Kansas, Nebraska, and New Mexico D) upper South states of Virginia and Maryland E) newer states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana

B

By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the: A) border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland B) deep south states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana C) old south states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina D) new Southwest States of Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory E) mountain regions of Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky

A

In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners: A) placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the Western world B) were in opposition to the North but on the side of the Western world C) failed to compare slaves with the northern factory worker D) allowed considerable dissent in the South E) aligned themselves with leading European intellecutals

D

In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was: A) feigned laziness B) sabotage of plantation equipment C) running away D) armed insurrection E) stealing food and other goods

B

Match each abolitionist below with his publication: a. William Lloyd Garrison 1. "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" b. Theodore Dwight Weld 2. "The Liberator" c. Frederick Douglass 3. "Narration of the Life of ___" d. David Walker 4. "American Slavery as It Is" A) a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2 B) a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1 C) a-, b-2, c-4, d-1 D) a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4 E) a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3

B

Most slaves were raised: A) without the benefit of a stable home life B) in stable two-parent households C) never knowing anything about their relatives D) not to display their African cultural roots E) without religion

E

Most white southerners were: A) planter aristocrats B) small slave owners C) merchants and artisans D) "poor white trash" E) subsistence farmers

C

Plantation agriculture: A) led to a slow return on investments B) remained diverse until the Civil War C) was economically unstable and wasteful D) discouraged immigration to the West E) encouraged southern democracy

D

Plantation mistresses: A) had little contact with slaves B) primarily controlled male slaves C) frequently supported abolitionism D) commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves E) were almost universally loved by their slaves

A

Slavery's greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was: A) the enforced separation of slave families B) slaveowners' frequent use of the whip C) the breeding of slaves D) having to do the most dangerous work on the plantation E) forcible sexual assault by slaveowners

C

The great increase of the slave population in the first halal of the nineteenth-century was largely due to: A) the reopening of the African slave trade in 1808 B) larger imports of slaves from the West Indies C) natural reproduction D) reenslavement of free blacks E) the deliberate breeding of slaves by plantation owners

E

The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was: A) proposed by William Lloyd Garrison B) proposed as part of the Fourteenth Amendment C) advocated by Frederick Douglass D) suggested by the African nation of Liberia E) supported by the black leader Martin Delaney

E

The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was: A) a recognition of blacks' desire to preserve their culture B) never carried out C) advocated by Frederick Douglass D) proposed by the African nation of Liberia E) an expression of widespread American racism

A

Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery: A) were creating disorder in America B) were defending the American way of life C) deserved the right to speak freely D) had turned their backs on religion E) were undermining fundamental American beliefs