Chapter 9 APUSH Quiz
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
