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16 The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793-1860
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American Pageant Chapter 16
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Question 1
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From the outset, the US government grappled with the uncomfortable question of slavery in all of the following EXCEPT
Answer
Northwest Ordinance in 1787
Missouri Compromise in 1820
Nonimportation Act of 1807
Compromise of 1850
Question 2
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After 1800, the prosperity of both North and South became heavily dependent on growing, manufacturing, and exporting of cotton.
Answer
True
False
Question 3
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What single event halted idealistic discussions in the early republic about the eventual end of slavery?
Answer
The War of 1812
The invention of the cotton gin
The explosion of tobacco as an export crop
The congressional gag order
Question 4
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The Southern planter aristocracy was strongly attracted to medieval cultural ideals.
Answer
True
False
Question 5
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Which of these economic woes was NOT associated with cotton cultivation in teh plantation South?
Answer
A concentration of wealth, economic resources, and power in fewer and fewer hands.
Excessive land cultivation and soil depletion
Overspeculation in land and slaves
A rising number of new immigrants seeking to profit from the land.
Question 6
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Most southern slave owners owned twenty or more slaves
Answer
True
False
Question 7
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Which of the following is NOT a true statement about free blacks in the antebellum America?
Answer
Some of them owned slaves and property
They shared the same voting and other rights as white men everywhere
They were often despised more in the North than in the South
Some of them purchased their freedom by working after hours for extra money.
Question 8
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in 1860, three-fourths of all white southerns owned no slaves at all
Answer
True
False
Question 9
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Poor whites supported slavery because it made them feel racially superior and because they hoped someday to be able to buy slaves
Answer
True
False
Question 10
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Slaves worked to undermine their masters and regain some margin of autonomy - however small - in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
Answer
slowing down the pace of their work
pilfering household and other goods from their masters' homes.
destroying homes and crops
sabotaging equipment
Question 11
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What was the result of the slave uprising aboard the Amistad in 1839
Answer
Slaves commandeered the ship and successfully returned to Africa
Slave rebels ultimately won their freedom in court
It led to the passage of slave codes in the South
The conflict led to a fire that claimed the lives of all passengers and destroyed the ship.
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