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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
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  • 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.
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  • True
  • False

Question 3

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