Chapter 16 APUSH multiple choice

European immigration to the South was discouraged by a-competition with slave labor b-southern anti-Catholicism c-Irish antislavery groups d-immigration barriers enacted by southern states e-their inability to tolerate the hot climate

A

arrange the following in chronological order: the founding of the (A) American Colonization Society, (B) American Anti-Slavery, and (C) Liberty Party a-A,B,C b-C,A,B c-B,C,A d-A,C,B e-C,B,A

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-slave owners' 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 slave owners

A

the plantation system of the Cotton South was a-increasingly monopolistic b-efficient in utilizing natural resources c-financially stable d-attractive to European immigrants e-unable to expand westward

A

the profitable southern slave system a-hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole b-saw many slaves moving to the upper South c-led to the textile industry's development in the South first d-relied almost totally on importing slaves to meet the unquenchable demand for labor e-enabled the South to afford economic and educational progress

A

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 ranges of Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky

B

members of the planter aristocracy a-produced fewer front-rank statesmen than the North b-dominated society and politics in the South c-provided democratic rule in the South d-provided democratic tax-supported public education e-kept up with developments in modern thought

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

B

regarding work assignments, slaves were a-given some of the most dangerous jobs b-generally spared dangerous work c-given the same jobs as Irish laborers d-usually given skilled rather than menial jobs e-generally supervised in small groups

B

slaves fought the system of slavery in all of the following except by a-slowing down the work pace b-conducting periodic successful save rebellions c-sabotaging expensive equipment d-pilfering goods that their labor had produced e-running away from their masters

B

the most pro-Union of the white Southerners were a-plantation owners b-mountain whites c-small slave owners d-non slave owners subsistence farmers e-people with northern economic interests

B

as a result of the introduction to the cotton gin: a-fewer slaves were needed on plantations b-short-staple cotton lost popularity c-slavery was reinvigorated d-Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery e-the African trade was legalized

C

forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common a-in the Deep South b-on 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

C

in society's basement in the South of 1860 were nearly ___ million black human chattels a-1 b-2 c-4 d-8 e-10

C

most slaves in the South were owned by a-industrialists b-mountain whites c-plantation owners d-small farmers 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

C

the great increase of the slave population on 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-reenslavement of free blacks e-the deliberate breeding of slaves by plantation owners

C

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

D

many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840, when they backed the presidential candidate of a-Free Soil Party b-Republican Party c-Know Nothing Party d-Liberty Party e-Anti-Masonic Party

D

some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of a-prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade after 107 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

D

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to a-shipping freed black slaves back to Africa b-outlawing the salve trade c-preventing the expansion of slavery beyond the South d-forming an antislavery political party e-the immediate abolition of slavery in the South

E

all of the following were characteristic of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century US 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 to unusually cruel punishment d-slaves were forbidden to testify in court and their marriages were not legal e-floggings were uncommon and rare

E

all of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system except that a-it relied on a one-crop economy b-it repelled a large-sale European immigration c-it stimulated racism among poor whites d-it created an aristocratic political elite e-its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers

E

all the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom except a-cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840 b-the South produced more than half the entire world's supply of cotton c-75 percent of the British supply of cotton came from the South d-quick profits from cotton drew planters to its economic enterprise e-the South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade

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

E

by 1860, life for slaves was most difficult in 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 state of Virginia and Maryland e-newer states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana

E

for free blacks living in the North a-living conditions were nearly equal to those for whites b-voting rights were widespread c-goods jobs were plentiful d-education opened the door to economic opportunity e-discrimination was common

E

most white southerners were a-planter aristocrats b-small slave owners c-merchants and artisans d-"poor white trash" e-subsistence farmers

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 despoiled good land

E