Question 1

which of the following is NOT true of the American Colonization Society?

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most free blacks supported it.

Question 2

The efforts of the American Colonization Society resulted in the creation of the African nation of:

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Liberia.

Question 3

William Lloyd Garrison:1

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demanded immediate emancipation of slaves.

Question 4

William Lloyd Garrison:2

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was accused by slaveholders of stirring up the unrest that led to Nat Turners insurrection.

Question 5

The slave revolt led by Nat Turner:

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killed a dozen whites before its suppresion.

Question 6

In Charelston, blacks outnumbered whites, leaving the ruling elite:

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almost hysterically determined to squash any slave uprising.

Question 7

Gullah refers to the :

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slave culture of coastal Georgia and South Carolina.

Question 8

Slave religion:

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mixed African and Christian elements.

Question 9

Slave marriages:

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were never legally sanctioned.

Question 10

Slave rebellions in the South:

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were sometimes betrayed before they started.

Question 11

In the Antebellum period, which of the following was in the old Southwest?

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Mississippi

Question 12

Because of the dominance of agriculture the south was becoming icreasingly dependent upon:

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The North.

Question 13

The major reason the South did not industrialize was that:

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plantation slavery was quite profitable.

Question 14

The southern belief" cotton is king":

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did not anticipate declining world demand for cotton.

Question 15

The movie Gone With the Wind:

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presents a mythic view of the old south.

Question 16

In the Antebellum period, southerners viewed their region as:

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distinctive from the rest of the country.

Question 17

All of the following might be used to explain the South's distinctiveness EXCEPT:

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the large number of immigrants who came to the south after 1760

Question 18

The Old Sothwest:

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attracted thousands of settlers in the 1820s and 1830s with its promise of cotton production.

Question 19

Life in the Old Southwest was characterized by:

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All of the above.

Question 20

Despite a great diversity of origins in the colonial population, the South:

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drew few overseas immigrants after the revolution.

Question 21

By 1860, slavery was most concentrated:

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in the Lower South.

Question 22

By the 1830s, most Baptists and Methodists in the South:

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defended slavery.

Question 23

By the antebellum period, all of the following remained significant staple crops in the South EXCEPT:

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indigo.

Question 24

As southerners moved farther west between 1820 and 1860:

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cotton production soared.

Question 25

The focus on cotton and other cash crops has obscured the degree to which:

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the antebellum South fed itself from its own fields.

Question 26

The Tredegar Iron Works:

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was the most important single manufacturing enterprise in the Old South.

Question 27

One agricultural problem southerners increasingly faced was:

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exhaustion of the soil.

Question 28

What portion of the Souths white families owned slaves?

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one fourth.

Question 29

Southern planters:

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owned at least twenty slaves.

Question 30

The plantation mistress:

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generally confronted a double standard of moral and sexual behavior.

Question 31

Plantation mistresses:

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supervised the domestic household.

Question 32

The most numerous white southerners were the:

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yeoman farmers.

Question 33

Small farmers in the South:

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supported white supremacy.

Question 34

If poor southern whites seemed lazy it was likely because of:

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dietary deficiencies and diseases like hookworm.

Question 35

The frequency of dueling in the South was probably caused by:

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southerners exalted sense of honor.

Question 36

Approximately how many slaves lived in the south in 1860?

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4 milllion.

Question 37

Free blacks in the South:

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sometimes owned slaves.

Question 38

Slave owners in the antebellum South aquired additional slaves from:

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the domestic slave trade.

Question 39

Slave women:

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often worked in the fields.

Question 40

When in 1855 a slve named Celia kiled her sexually abusive master, she was:

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hanged.

Question 41

Sarah and Angelina Grimke:

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demanded womens rights as well as abolition.

Question 42

The American Anti-Slavery Society split over the issue of:

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womens rights.

Question 43

Frederick Douglas:

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wrote a famous account of his life as a slave.

Question 44

All of the following are true about Sojourner Truth, EXCEPT that she:

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killed her master to escape from slavery.

Question 45

The killing of Elijah Lovejoy showed:

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the rampant racism in the North.

Question 46

On what basis did John Quincy Adams,"Old Man Eloquent," protest the "gag rule" concerning abolotion petitions?

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it violated the first amendment.

Question 47

George Fitzhughs major pro-slavery argument was that:

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southern slavery was better for workers than the "wage slavery" of the northern industry.

Question 48

Southerners used all of the following to justify slavery EXCEPT:

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Thomas Jeffersons words in the Declaration of Independence.

Question 49

By the 1830s, John C. Calhoun was arguing that:

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slavery was a "positive good".

Question 50

The debate over slavery:

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split Methodists and Baptists into norhtern and southern denominations.

Question 51

The Wilmot Proviso:

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would prohibit slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico.

Question 52

John C. Calhooun bellieved that the Wilmot Proviso:

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violated property rights gauranteed in the Fifth Amendment.

Question 53

The idea of popular sovereignty:

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would allow people in the territories to decide whether or not to permit slavery.

Question 54

All of the following might have joined the Free-Soil party EXCEPT:

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"Cotton" Whigs.

Question 55

The Free-Soil Party stance on slavery:

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infuriated John C. Calhoun.

Question 56

The 1848 presidential election:

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was won by Zachary Taylor.

Question 57

The discovery of gol in California did all of the following EXCEPT:

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create a population with an equal balance of men and women.

Question 58

In late 1849, Zachary Taylor proposed:

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Californias immediate entry as a free state.

Question 59

President Zachary Taylor wanted to admit California as a state immediately because he:

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wished to bypass the divisive issue of slavery in the territories.

Question 60

Which of the following is NOT true of Zachary Taylor?

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The "Consience" Whigs were his strongest supporters.

Question 61

Durin 1850, the United States faced the real danger of:

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disunion.

Question 62

During the debate over the Compromise of 1850, one senator made a conciliatory speech ("I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, not as a Northern man, but as an American, I speak today for the preservation of the Union") that was scorned by abo

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Daniel Webster.

Question 63

President Taylors death:

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strengthed the chance for compromise in 1850.

Question 64

During the great congressional debate over the Compromise of 1850:

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Clay called for an end to sectional division.

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