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16 The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793-1860

Question 1 of 11

1

From the outset, the US government grappled with the uncomfortable question of slavery in all of the following EXCEPT

Select one of the following:

  • Northwest Ordinance in 1787

  • Missouri Compromise in 1820

  • Nonimportation Act of 1807

  • Compromise of 1850

Explanation

Question 2 of 11

1

After 1800, the prosperity of both North and South became heavily dependent on growing, manufacturing, and exporting of cotton.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 3 of 11

1

What single event halted idealistic discussions in the early republic about the eventual end of slavery?

Select one of the following:

  • The War of 1812

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The explosion of tobacco as an export crop

  • The congressional gag order

Explanation

Question 4 of 11

1

The Southern planter aristocracy was strongly attracted to medieval cultural ideals.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 5 of 11

1

Which of these economic woes was NOT associated with cotton cultivation in teh plantation South?

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 6 of 11

1

Most southern slave owners owned twenty or more slaves

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 7 of 11

1

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about free blacks in the antebellum America?

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 8 of 11

1

in 1860, three-fourths of all white southerns owned no slaves at all

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 9 of 11

1

Poor whites supported slavery because it made them feel racially superior and because they hoped someday to be able to buy slaves

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 10 of 11

1

Slaves worked to undermine their masters and regain some margin of autonomy - however small - in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

Select one of the following:

  • slowing down the pace of their work

  • pilfering household and other goods from their masters' homes.

  • destroying homes and crops

  • sabotaging equipment

Explanation

Question 11 of 11

1

What was the result of the slave uprising aboard the Amistad in 1839

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

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