APUSH Ch. 11 & 12 Quiz
What distinguished the entrepreneurial planters of the Cotton South in the 1840s and 1850s from the upper-class planters of the Old South?
A plain and simple life
How did the federal government respond to abolition between 1836 and 1844?
By blocking debate of antislavery petitions in Congress
What was a reason that President Martin Van Buren refused to annex Texas?
He expected northern opposition to adding a slave state.
What aspect of transcendentalism is seen in Henry David Thoreau's statement, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"?
Individualism
How did the domestic slave trade affect slave marriages?
It destroyed about one in every four slave marriages.
Which statement characterizes the gang-labor system of slave labor in the Lower South?
Large work crews supervised by a black driver and a white overseer
Why did the Virginia assembly reject a bill providing for the gradual emancipation and colonization abroad of African Americans in 1831?
Nat Turner's Rebellion had raised the fear of black violence.
What was the dominant pattern of marriage relationships among the smallholding yeomen of the antebellum South?
Patriarchal
Why did African American unity increase in the 1840s and 1850s?
Proposals for the re-enslavement of free blacks brought the community together.
What was a strategy that evangelical abolitionists used to attack slavery beginning in the 1830s?
Publicizing the evils of slavery
The national women's rights convention of 1851 declared that which of the following was the cornerstone of the goals of the women's movements?
Suffrage
Why did South Carolina rice planters begin to sell some of their slaves and work the others harder in the 1820s?
The competition from cheap Asian rice cut into their profit margins.
Which statement characterizes the religious practices of African American slaves in the Deep South in the early nineteenth century?
The majority of them worshiped African gods and spirits
Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas have the greatest impact on the middle class?
The middle class had already embraced moral perfection and moral free agency.
Why did many African American slaves choose not to run away?
They did not want to leave family and kin.
Which statement assesses the historical significance of the Shakers, Fourierists, and Oneidians?
They radically questioned sexual norms and class divisions.
Between the 1820s and 1860s, on which group of people was urban popular culture based?
Thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure
In the years leading up to the Civil War, what purpose did African American naming patterns try to serve?
To bolster kinship ties
What was the point of the ideology of the "separate sphere" promoted in the mid-nineteenth century by men like the evangelical minister Philemon Fowler?
Women should focus on domestic life, not public life.
What did women reformers refer to when they spoke about "domestic slavery" in the 1840s?
Women's loss of legal rights in the institution of marriage
The Mormons differed from other communal experiments in their
emphasis on traditional patriarchal authority.
Women at the Seneca Falls Convention based their Declaration of Sentiments on
the Declaration of Independence.
How did the Chesapeake region contribute to the domestic slave trade?
By selling surplus African American slaves to the Cotton South
Why did the planter elite of the South face political challenges in the 1840s and 1850s?
New state constitutions opened the franchise, making it more difficult for them to dominate government.