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0/1Question 59Which of the following characterizes the plantation labor system of the southern cotton industry?No answer provideda. Immigrants formed an important subgroup of southern plantation laborers.b. Native Americans formed an important subgroup of southern plantation laborers.c. African American slaves were unable to escape the labor system due to planter violence.d. African American slaves worked from sunup to sundown all year long.0/1Question 73The notion of slavery as a "necessary evil" and a "positive good" was supported by which idea?No answer provideda. In a slave-owning society, every free man is an aristocrat.b. Slavery gave whites the psychological satisfaction of knowing they ranked above blacks.c. Whites educated and Christianized slaves in return for their love, labor, and loyalty.d. Slavery allowed a civilized lifestyle for whites and cared for genetically inferior blacks.0/1Question 62How did planters attempt to resolve a labor crisis in the cotton South in the early nineteenth century?No answer provideda. By refusing to take part illegally in the international slave tradeb. By buying domestic slaves from the Chesapeake regionc. By resorting to buying slaves from the British in Canadad. By beginning to import European peasant immigrants as servants0/1Question 69Which of the following attributes of American society did the planter aristocracy in the South value highly in the mid-nineteenth century?No answer provideda. Inequalityb. Egalitarian societyc. Professional politiciansd. Universal suffrage0/1Question 63Which of the following statements characterizes the domestic slave trade in the nineteenth century?No answer provideda. The market for domestic slaves declined during the early 1800s.b. The domestic slave trade was outlawed by Congress in 1807.c. It included thousands of Native Americans held as slaves.d. The domestic market brought wealth to American traders.0/1Question 65By 1860, the majority of African Americans lived and worked as slaves in which of the following regions?No answer provideda. Deep Southb. Upper Southc. Midwestd. Northeast0/1Question 67The domestic slave trade affected the African American family unit before 1865 byNo answer provideda. separating adults but not children from their families.b. destroying the sense of family.c. destroying 75 percent of black marriages.d. separating family members through sale and trade.0/1Question 61Why did a labor crisis develop in the Cotton South in the first few decades of the 1800s?No answer provideda. Disease killed tens of thousands of slaves every year in the Deep South.b. Patriot planters had gradually emancipated their slaves after the Revolutionary War.c. Planters heading west needed many new slaves to clear, plant, and harvest the land.d. Americans sent thousands of slaves to Africa, creating a shortage of slave labor.0/1Question 60Which factor led to planters' need to smuggle slaves into the country rather than import them legally?No answer provideda. Congressional legislationb. A Supreme Court rulingc. Missouri's application for statehoodd. State legislationQuestion 55Which of the following statements characterizes the cotton planter class in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas in the mid-nineteenth century?No answer provideda. Planters lived in elegant mansions.b. The goal of the planter class was to make money.c. Planters refused to do physical labor on plantations.d. Planters embraced the cultured gentility of the Chesapeake region.Which factor led to planters' need to smuggle slaves into the country rather than import them legally?No answer provideda. Congressional legislationb. A Supreme Court rulingc. Missouri's application for statehoodd. State legislation0/1Question 56The U.S. federal government participated in the expansion of slavery during the early to mid-1800s through which of the following?No answer provideda. The American Colonization Societyb. The Indian Removal Act.c. The inland systemd. The international slave trade0/1Question 36In its campaign to end slavery, the American Anti-Slavery Society embraced which of the following tactics?No answer provideda. Sponsoring public lectures and collecting signatures on antislavery petitionsb. Smuggling weapons to slaves for use in an eventual uprisingc. Purchasing and freeing slaves threatened with a sale that would break up their familiesd. Mounting civil disobedience actions and mass demonstrations to protest slaveryWhich of the following characterizes the plantation labor system of the southern cotton industry?No answer provideda. Immigrants formed an important subgroup of southern plantation laborers.b. Native Americans formed an important subgroup of southern plantation laborers.c. African American slaves were unable to escape the labor system due to planter violence.d. African American slaves worked from sunup to sundown all year long.The following questions refer to the following excerpt."[T]he Western world had typically connected church and state. Now the Americans undertook to experiment with their separation: Religion would be purely voluntary. The results astonished both friends and foes of Christianity. . . . Far from hindering religion, the American model of voluntarism hugely facilitated it, liberating powerful religious energies. Religion, which had played such an important part in the life of the American colonies, was reinvigorated . . . in the life of the American republic. . . . Americans . . . experienced widespread direct democracy through the creation, administration, and financing of churches and other voluntary societies. . . . Women, African Americans, and newly arrived poor immigrants were all participating in religion, often in leadership roles, before they participated in politics." — Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What God Hath Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007Which of the following most directly resulted from mid-nineteenth-century religious voluntarism as described in the excerpt?No answer provideda. The establishment of utopian communitiesb. Women's work for moral reform in urban areasc. The women's rights movementd. The transcendentalist movement0/1Question 55Which of the following statements characterizes the cotton planter class in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas in the mid-nineteenth century?No answer provideda. Planters lived in elegant mansions.b. The goal of the planter class was to make money.c. Planters refused to do physical labor on plantations.d. Planters embraced the cultured gentility of the Chesapeake region.0/1Question 43Who founded the Liberty Party in 1840?No answer provideda. Proslavery advocates in both the North and the Southb. Theodore Dwight Weld, who sought to unify the antislavery movementc. Antislavery leaders who had broken with Garrisond. William Lloyd Garrison, after he broke with most of the other abolitionist leadersQuestion 56The U.S. federal government participated in the expansion of slavery during the early to mid-1800s through which of the following?No answer provideda. The American Colonization Societyb. The Indian Removal Act.c. The inland systemd. The international slave trade0/1Question 58Which of the following areas is correctly matched with its primary crop?No answer provideda. Carolina low country—hempb. Louisiana—sugarc. Kentucky and Tennessee—cottond. Chesapeake—riceQuestion 51The following questions refer to the following excerpt."[T]he Western world had typically connected church and state. Now the Americans undertook to experiment with their separation: Religion would be purely voluntary. The results astonished both friends and foes of Christianity. . . . Far from hindering religion, the American model of voluntarism hugely facilitated it, liberating powerful religious energies. Religion, which had played such an important part in the life of the American colonies, was reinvigorated . . . in the life of the American republic. . . . Americans . . . experienced widespread direct democracy through the creation, administration, and financing of churches and other voluntary societies. . . . Women, African Americans, and newly arrived poor immigrants were all participating in religion, often in leadership roles, before they participated in politics." — Daniel Walker Howe, historian, What God Hath Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, published in 2007Which of the following activities from the middle of the nineteenth century most closely resembles the religious voluntarism Howe describes?No answer provideda. The creation of self-help associations by free blacks in Philadelphiab. The articulation of transcendentalism by New Englander Ralph Waldo Emersonc. The construction of fine wood furniture by Shaker communitiesd. The participation in Roman Catholic churches by Irish immigrants
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