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Test por Shari Anderson, actualizado hace más de 1 año
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Creado por Shari Anderson
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Pregunta 1
Pregunta
From the outset, the US government grappled with the uncomfortable question of slavery in all of the following EXCEPT
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Northwest Ordinance in 1787
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Missouri Compromise in 1820
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Nonimportation Act of 1807
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Compromise of 1850
Pregunta 2
Pregunta
After 1800, the prosperity of both North and South became heavily dependent on growing, manufacturing, and exporting of cotton.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 3
Pregunta
What single event halted idealistic discussions in the early republic about the eventual end of slavery?
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The War of 1812
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The invention of the cotton gin
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The explosion of tobacco as an export crop
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The congressional gag order
Pregunta 4
Pregunta
The Southern planter aristocracy was strongly attracted to medieval cultural ideals.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 5
Pregunta
Which of these economic woes was NOT associated with cotton cultivation in teh plantation South?
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A concentration of wealth, economic resources, and power in fewer and fewer hands.
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Excessive land cultivation and soil depletion
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Overspeculation in land and slaves
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A rising number of new immigrants seeking to profit from the land.
Pregunta 6
Pregunta
Most southern slave owners owned twenty or more slaves
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- True
- False
Pregunta 7
Pregunta
Which of the following is NOT a true statement about free blacks in the antebellum America?
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Some of them owned slaves and property
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They shared the same voting and other rights as white men everywhere
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They were often despised more in the North than in the South
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Some of them purchased their freedom by working after hours for extra money.
Pregunta 8
Pregunta
in 1860, three-fourths of all white southerns owned no slaves at all
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- True
- False
Pregunta 9
Pregunta
Poor whites supported slavery because it made them feel racially superior and because they hoped someday to be able to buy slaves
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- True
- False
Pregunta 10
Pregunta
Slaves worked to undermine their masters and regain some margin of autonomy - however small - in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
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slowing down the pace of their work
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pilfering household and other goods from their masters' homes.
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destroying homes and crops
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sabotaging equipment
Pregunta 11
Pregunta
What was the result of the slave uprising aboard the Amistad in 1839
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Slaves commandeered the ship and successfully returned to Africa
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Slave rebels ultimately won their freedom in court
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It led to the passage of slave codes in the South
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The conflict led to a fire that claimed the lives of all passengers and destroyed the ship.
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