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Which 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—rice0/1Question 41What was the gag rule passed by the House of Representatives in 1836?No answer provideda. The rule made it a federal crime to distribute abolitionist tracts in any state where slavery was legal.b. It prevented southern politicians from giving proslavery speeches on the floor of the House.c. It suspended the writ of habeas corpus for any abolitionist speaker arrested for violating antiabolitionist laws.d. The policy automatically tabled and prevented discussion of any antislavery petitions received by the House.0/1Question 54Why was the South on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution by 1840?No answer provideda. Planters were building factories to process cotton.b. Planters were using European immigrants as industrial workers.c. It produced and exported over two-thirds of the world's cotton supply.d. Southern society was dominated by free labor.0/1Question 57Which of these factors explained the surplus of slaves in the Chesapeake region in the early nineteenth century?No answer provideda. Population growth through natural reproductionb. The profitability of the international slave tradec. Chesapeake planters' hesitancy to work their slaves too hardd. The rapid contraction of the region's tobacco market0/1Question 47Efforts by women reformers to regulate sexual behavior resulted in laws in Massachusetts and New York that did which of the following?No answer provideda. Made seduction of women a crimeb. Made solicitation of prostitutes a crimec. Banned the common practice of abortiond. Banned the manufacture, distribution, and sale of birth control devices0/1Question 46What was the purpose of the Female Moral Reform Society, which middle-class New York women founded in 1834?No answer provideda. To provide moral guidance for young, working women who were living away from their familiesb. To condemn prostitution and punish young women who participated in urban prostitutionc. To create new opportunities for male and female reformers to work together as equals in the same organizationd. To create a network of schools to train young, middle-class women in manners and morals0/1Question 49Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe pen her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1852?No answer provideda. She wanted more white Northern women to join abolitionist societies.b. She wanted to promote African colonization as the best solution to the evils of slavery.c. Stowe sought to depict slavery as degrading to slave women.d. She wanted women to leave any church that did not preach against slavery.Why was the South on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution by 1840?No answer provideda. Planters were building factories to process cotton.b. Planters were using European immigrants as industrial workers.c. It produced and exported over two-thirds of the world's cotton supply.d. Southern society was dominated by free labor.Question 57Which of these factors explained the surplus of slaves in the Chesapeake region in the early nineteenth century?No answer provideda. Population growth through natural reproductionb. The profitability of the international slave tradec. Chesapeake planters' hesitancy to work their slaves too hardd. The rapid contraction of the region's tobacco market0/1Question 42By the early 1840s, Garrison and his supporters in the American Anti-Slavery Society had transformed their agenda in which of the following ways?No answer provideda. The group joined the Tappan brothers and Theodore Weld to form the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.b. They advocated a broad-based reform program, embracing women's rights as well as the rights of American blacks.c. The group decided that working for abolitionism within existing institutions was more effective than creating new ones.d. They softened their rhetoric in an effort to end pro-slavery activists' violent attacks on lecturers.0/1Question 34How did women participate in the abolition movement in the mid-eighteenth century?No answer provideda. Women interested in abolition attended meetings with their husbands but did not actively participate in the societies.b. Women were not active in the abolition movement.c. Women abolitionists established influential groups such as the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.d. Female abolitionists often discussed issues of slavery among themselves, but they had limited involvement in the movement.0/1Question 48Horace Mann and Catharine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s?No answer provideda. Abolitionb. Temperancec. Educational reformd. Prison reform0/1Question 38Which of the following individuals went to jail rather than pay taxes in support of the Mexican War and slavery?No answer provideda. Henry David Thoreaub. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Sarah Grimkéd. William Lloyd Garrison0/1Question 39Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century?No answer provideda. They did not want the Baptists beliefs held by many slaves to spread to the North.b. The northerners supported slavery only because of the belief of black inferiority.c. Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs.d. They were interested in maintaining the English Protestant society of the North.0/1Question 33Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?No answer provideda. He attacked the U.S. Constitution because it condoned slavery.b. Garrison believed violence was an acceptable means for ending American slavery.c. He was motivated by political, not religious, concerns.d. Garrison called for the institution of gradual abolition in all states.0/1Question 44The public movement for women's rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?No answer provideda. Mormonismb. The Oneida Communityc. The Second Great Awakeningd. The American RevolutionQuestion 50During the 1840s, American women's rights activists focused on which of the following goals?No answer provideda. Strengthening the legal rights of married womenb. Challenging the conventional division of labor within the familyc. Making it easier for married women to file for divorced. Educating women about birth control and abortion0/1Question 37Abolitionist leaders used which of the following in their crusade to end slavery in the middle of the 1800s?No answer provideda. Aid to fugitive slavesb. Financial support for free blacks willing to foment rebellion in the Southc. Continuous demonstrations against slavery outside the White Housed. Lecture tours demanding the end of the international slave trade0/1Question 45Mid-nineteenth-century publications such as Godey's Lady's Book and Catharine Beecher's Treatise on Domestic Economy did which of the following?No answer provideda. Emphasized the social importance of homemaking and domesticityb. Promoted less restrictive feminine clothing to protect women's healthc. Advocated women's right to vote and hold elected officesd. Promoted the notion that higher education would make women better mothers0/1Question 35In their book American Slavery as It Is, Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimké sistersNo answer provideda. appealed to the economic interests of southerners by arguing that slavery was unprofitable.b. presented testimony from individual southerners about the evils of slavery.c. openly criticized individuals who did not agree with their views on slavery.d. refuted William Lloyd Garrison's position on the necessity of African colonization.
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