Question 1

By 1860,the textile manufacturing sector of the American South

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A)   had come to dominate the South's economy.
B)   had increased threefold in value over the previous twenty years.
C)   was nonexistent.
D)   was equal to one-third of the value of cotton exported that year.
E)   had declined in value throughout the 1840s and 1850s.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 2

Most white southerners owned

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A)   two slaves.
B)   no slaves.
C)   one slave.
D)   three to five slaves.
E)   six to ten slaves.F) C) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 3

Most enslaved blacks lived

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A)   on medium- to large-sized plantations.
B)   on small farms.
C)   in urban areas.
D)   in Virginia and the Carolinas.
E)   in rigidly-controlled circumstances.F) A) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 4

Religious services for American slaves

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A)   emphasized subservience and submission to God.
B)   were often more emotional than white services.
C)   were not allowed, by law, to mention freedom.
D)   denied all references to their African heritage.
E)   were generally more despondent and melancholy than white services.F) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 5

In the first half of the nineteenth century,why did cotton become the major economic crop of the American South?

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Question 6

Which of the following statements about the southern aristocratic ideal is FALSE?

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A)   Dueling became a prominent facet of southern planter life.
B)   Wealthy southern whites prided themselves on their egalitarianism.
C)   Wealthy southern whites adopted an elaborate code of "chivalry."
D)   Wealthy southern whites often gravitated toward the military.
E)   Wealthy southern whites pretended to avoid such "coarse" occupations as trade and commerce.F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 7

The South had an inadequate transportation system and only a rudimentary financial system as late as the middle of the nineteenth century.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by

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A)   Nat Turner.
B)   Denmark Vesey.
C)   Gabriel Prosser.
D)   Harriet Tubman.
E)   Frederick Douglass.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 9

Prior to 1860,southern women differed from northern women in that they

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A)   tended to have more formal education.
B)   were expected to be more subordinate to men.
C)   had fewer children.
D)   were more likely to take a role in public activities.
E)   generally were less engaged with the economic life of the family.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 10

The central ideology of slavery,and the vital instrument of white control,was

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A)   paternalism.
B)   egalitarianism.
C)   maternalism.
D)   fraternity.
E)   sorority.F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 11

Rice and sugar production in the antebellum South

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A)   threatened to overwhelm cotton production in the lower South.
B)   had difficulty sustaining profits for growers.
C)   were concentrated in a relatively small geographic area.
D)   was in considerable decline by the 1850s.
E)   had short growing seasons.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 12

The South may have failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT

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A)   a shortage of labor.
B)   the profitability of cotton.
C)   cultural values.
D)   the humid climate.
E)   little access to liquid capital.F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 13

By the mid-nineteenth century,slavery in the western world existed only in the American South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Prior to 1860,southern white women

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A)   were not expected to engage in manual labor, whatever their social standing.
B)   had a birth rate that was lower than the national average.
C)   had about the same access to education as northern white women.
D)   generally lived lives that were isolated from the wider world.
E)   were more likely to see their children grow to adulthood than northern white women.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 15

The North,unlike the South,experienced great economic growth in the mid-nineteenth century.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Prior to 1860,affluent southern white women

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A)   played a significantly different role from that of their northern counterparts.
B)   typically played an important role in public activities.
C)   centered their lives in the home.
D)   had created the most significant challenge to slavery in the South.
E)   commonly held income-producing jobs.F) All of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 17

When emancipation came after the Civil War,it was often the ________ who were the first to leave the plantation of their former owners.

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A)   head drivers
B)   field hands
C)   subdrivers
D)   house servants
E)   craftsmenF) All of the above
G) C) and D)

Question 18

Most "plain folk" of the Old South

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A)   were subsistence farmers who owned at least one slave.
B)   were subsistence farmers who were passionately antislavery.
C)   were never able to move into the planter class.
D)   owned at least one slave.
E)   were passionately antislavery.F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Question 19

Most often,resistance to slavery took the form of open rebellion.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Slave spirituals were written down and passed on to generations of African Americans.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 11: Cotton,Slavery,and the Old South Key

By 1860,the textile manufacturing sector of the American South

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In the first half of the nineteenth century,why did cotton become the major economic crop of the American South?

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Most often,resistance to slavery took the form of open rebellion.

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Religious services for American slaves

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Most enslaved blacks lived

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The central ideology of slavery,and the vital instrument of white control,was

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The South had an inadequate transportation system and only a rudimentary financial system as late as the middle of the nineteenth century.

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The South may have failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT

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Most white southerners owned

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Most "plain folk" of the Old South

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When emancipation came after the Civil War,it was often the ________ who were the first to leave the plantation of their former owners.

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Which of the following statements about the southern aristocratic ideal is FALSE?

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Rice and sugar production in the antebellum South

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One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by

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The North,unlike the South,experienced great economic growth in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Slave spirituals were written down and passed on to generations of African Americans.

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By the mid-nineteenth century,slavery in the western world existed only in the American South.

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