APUSH Quiz 16

all of the following were true of the american economy under cotton kingdom except a. the south reaped all the profits from the cotton trade b. the south produced more than half of the entire world's supply of cotton c. 75 percent of the british supply of cotton came from the south d. quic profits from cotton drew planters to its economic enterprise

a

european immigration to the south was discouraged most profoundly by a. fierce economic competition with slave labor b. an unfavorable experience of growing cotton in europe by german and irish immigrant groups c. german, irish, and jewish antislavery groups d. immigration barriers enacted by southern states

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, whose members could be sold away from eachother b. slave owners' frequent use of the whip c. the breeding of slaves d. forcible sexual assault by slave owners

a

william lloyd garrison pledged his dedication to a. the immediate abolition of slavery in the south b. supporting armed slave insurrections against all white slaveholders in the south c. preventing the expansion of slavery beyond the south d. forming an antislavery political party

a

all of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system except that a. it relied on the destructive one crop economy of cotton and failed to institute a system of crop rotation b. its land continued to remain predominately in the hands of small farmers c. it stimulated racism among poor whites d. it created an aristocratic political elite

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. mountain regions of tennessee, west virginia, and kentucky

b

by 1860, the overwhelming majority of all southern whites did not own slaves, but instead a. lived and worked as laborers, artisans, or tradesmen in the emerging cities of the south b. eked out a living in the mountains and back country raising corn and hogs c. owned small farms where they and their families raised cotton d. farmed an annually rotated sequential mix of wheat, tobacco, rice, and cotton

b

in 1839, enslaved africans rose up aboard the spanish slave ship a. ferdinand b. amistad c. la guerra d. la nina

b

members of the planters aristocracy a. produced fewer front-rank statesmen than the north b. dominated society and politics in the south c. were much more progressive about race and black people than white yeoman farmers... d. promoted tax-supported public education

b

most slaves were raised a. without the benefit of a stable home life b. in a stable two parent household c. without exhibiting any religious practices including a hybrid form of african christianity d. without displaying african culture practices including the distinctive african style of responsorial preaching

b

plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because a. it relied mainly on artificial means to fertilize the soil b. its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land c. excessive water was used for irrigation d. it was too diversified, thus taking essential nutrients from the soil

b

the majority of southern whites owned no slaves because a. they opposed slavery b. they could not afford the purchase price c. their urban location did not require them d. the feared the possibility of slave revolts

b

the most pro-union of the white southerners were a. plantation owners b. mountain whites residing in the appalachian range c. small slaveowners d. non slave owning subsistence farming

b

as a result of the introduction of the cotton gin a. fewer slaves were needed on the plantations b. short-staple cotton lost popularity c. slavery was reinvigorated in the south d. thomas jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery

c

by the mid-nineteenth century a. most southerners owned slaves b. the smaller slaveholders owned a majority of the slaves c. most slaves lived on large plantations d. slavery was a dying institution

c

for free blacks living in the north a. living conditions were nearly equal to those for whites b. voting rights were widespread c. discrimination against blacks concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public education was common d. education opened the door to economic opportunity

c

in society's basement in the south of 1860, there were nearly _____ million black human chattels a. 1 b. 2 c. 4 d. 8

c

in some counties of the deep south, especially along the lower mississippi river, blacks accounted for more than _____ percent of the population a. 25 b. 50 c. 75 d. 95

c

the great increase of the slave population in the first half 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. re enslavement of free blacks

c

uncle tom's cabin was written in 1852 by a. harriet tubman b. william lloyd garrison c. harriet beecher stowe d. margaret fuller

c

A. wendell phillips B. fredrick douglas c. elijah p lovejoy d. william lloyd garrison 1. abolitionist martyr 2. black abolitionist 3. abolitionist golden trumpet 4. abolitionist newspaper publisher a. A4 B2 C1 D3 b. A1 B4 C2 D3 c. A1 B3 C4 D2 d. A3 B2 C1 D4

d

all of the following are true statements about free blacks except a. they were banned from entering several northern states b. they were always vulnerable to being hijacked back into slavery in the south c. slaveholders feared that they were living examples of what might be achieved with emancipation d. in the north, they forged ties with irish, who similarly worked in menial jobs

d

as a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slave owners most often used the a. promise of eventual freedom b. threat of death c. the promise to slaves of a grant of private property to do tenant farming after a period of years of bondage d. whip as a motivator

d

most white southerners were a. planter aristocrats b. small slave owners c. merchants and artisans d. subsistence farmers

d

slaves regarded the least prosperous, nonslaveholding whites as a. potential allies in slave revolts against planter aristocrats b. their equals in doing the least desirable work c. violent, rabble rousers who often picked on slaves d. hillbillies and poor white trash- too lazy and shiftless to work productively

d

some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of a. the objection to slaveholding by some white women b. purchase by northern abolitionists c. fleeing to mountain hideaways d. purchasing their way out of slavery with money and after hours

d