US History Exam 6

Why was the South on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution by 1840?

It produced and exported over to - thirds of the worlds cotton supply.

Which of the following statements characterizes the cotton planter class in
Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas in the mid-nineteenth century?

The goal of the planter class was to make money.

Which of these factors explained the surplus of slaves in the Chesapeake region
in the early nineteenth century?

Population growth through natural reproduction

Which of the following characterizes the plantation labor system of the southern cotton industry?

African American slaves worked from sunup to sundown all year long

How did planters attempt to resolve a labor crisis in the cotton South in the early nineteenth century?

By buying domestic slaves from the Chesapeake region

By 1860, the majority of African Americans lived and worked as slaves in which of the following regions?

Deep South

The domestic slave trade affected the African American family unit before 1865 by

Separating family members through sale and trade

Which of the following attributes of American society did the planter aristocracy in the South value highly in the mid-nineteenth century?

Inequality

Which of these statements describes Southern rice planters of the mid-nineteenth century?

They were at the apex of the plantation aristocracy

In the cotton-growing regions of the South, which of the following was true of the gang-labor system of work?

Gang-labor depended upon the work of white overseers and black drivers.

Which of the following statements describes the class of propertyless whites living in the South in the mid-nineteenth century?

They worked hard physical jobs as day laborers and enjoyed little respect from other whites

The notion of slavery as a “necessary evil” and a “positive good” was supported by which idea?

Slavery allowed a civilized lifestyle for whites and cared for genetically inferior blacks

Which of these factors created a major economic obstacle for small, family farmers aiming to improve their lot in the mid-nineteenth-century South?

The cotton revolution

What prevented white southerners from working to diversify their economy in the nineteenth century?

Wealthy planters believed that the plantation economy would continue to produce wealth indefinitely

Which of these factors prompted many plantation masters to reduce reliance on violence and adopt positive incentives to motivate slaves in the 1830s and 1840s?

Abolitionist scrutiny

Which of these concepts became a central tenet of slave Christianity in the South in the nineteenth century?

All people as children of God

Slaves’ practice of “taking root” involved which of the following?

Building the best possible lives for themselves as slaves

Which of these factors made enslaved African Americans reluctant to attempt to escape to the North?

They hesitated to leave their families and communities behind

Which of the following statements characterizes African American marriage customs in the slave South?

Slave couples often followed the African custom of "jumping the broom" to signify their Union

In the nineteenth-century South, free blacks lived primarily

in the coastal cities and the Upper South

What did nineteenth-century American expansionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?

The citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer land in the Pacific

Which of the following made the Oregon Territory so appealing to Americans in the mid-1800s

It’s mild climate and rich soil

Which of the following was the critical issue facing political parties in the late 1840s?

Expansion of slavery

How did Oregon fever affect national politics in the United States in 1844?

The possibility of expansion into Texas became a major issue in the presidential election

Which action did President Polk take in 1845 as part of his California strategy?

Polk sent orders to the U.S. Navy in the Pacific to seize San Francisco Bay and other California ports in the event of war with Mexico

What did the Wilmot Proviso, introduced in Congress in 1846, propose to do?

Prohibit slavery in any territory the United States acquired from Mexico

Which of the following statements describes the Slidell mission to Mexico in December 1845?

It failed because Mexico had suspended diplomatic relations with the United States and refused to even see Slidell

Which of the following statements describes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

It denied alleged runaways a jury trial or the right to testify in their own defense

Popular sovereignty solved which of the following issues temporarily?

Whether congress had the authority to legislate slavery in the territories

Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

It sparked an unprecedented discussion about race and slavery in the United States and abroad

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act led to which of the following outcomes?

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was repealed

The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by sponsoring

personal-liberty laws

Which of the following events took place in Kansas during the summer of 1856?

John Brown and his followers murdered and mutilated five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie

During the 1850s, proslavery American expansionists attempted to acquire which of the following regions?

Cuba

The 1857 Dred Scott decision had which of the following consequences?

The decision persuaded many Republicans that the Supreme Court and President Buchanan were part of the "slave power" conspiracy

From 1854 to 1856, which of the following was the fundamental principle all Republicans agreed on?

An absolute opposition to the expansion of slavery into any new territories

In 1858, in his so-called Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas

asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation to protect it

The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the

Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the outcome of the midterm election in 1858?

Republicans won control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Why did the Republican Party nominate Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1860?

His egalitarian image would attract votes among farmers and workers