Question 1

For free blacks living in the North,

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A)   the Midwest was a more hospitable place to live than New England.
B)   cities were more hospitable than small towns.
C)   good jobs were plentiful.
D)   education opened the door to economic opportunity.
E)   discrimination was common.F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 2

Cotton became important to the prosperity of the North as well as the South because

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A)   about three-fourths of the southern cotton crop was sold to New England textile mills.
B)   northern merchants handled the shipping of southern cotton.
C)   cotton accounted for about half the value of all United States exports after 1840.
D)   northern farmers profited from selling their foodstuffs to feed southern slaves.
E)   northern investors and commodities traders controlled the cotton futures markets.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 3

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to

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A)   shipping freed blacks back to Africa.
B)   a gradual emancipation of all southern slaves.
C)   preventing the expansion of slavery beyond the South.
D)   forming an antislavery political party.
E)   the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 4

Based on "Varying Viewpoints," discuss how new perspectives, including women's history, have altered the understanding of actual human relationships under slavery.

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Question 5

Before the Civil War, free blacks

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A)   were far more numerous in the North than in the South.
B)   were often the mulatto offspring of white fathers and black mothers.
C)   were often forbidden basic civil rights.
D)   found their greatest friends and sympathizers among poor Irish immigrants.
E)   were disliked in the North as well as the South.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 6

All of the following were characteristics of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century United States except

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A)   slaves had no civil or political rights.
B)   slaves usually toiled from dawn to dusk in the fields.
C)   they had minimal protection from murder or unusually cruel punishment.
D)   slaves were forbidden to testify in court and their marriages were not legal.
E)   floggings were very uncommon and rare.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 7

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by

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A)   Susan B.Anthony.
B)   Lucrecia Mott.
C)   Harriet Beecher Stowe.
D)   Margaret Fuller.
E)   Harriet Tubman.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 8

In some counties of the deep South, especially along the lower Mississippi River, blacks accounted for more than ____ percent of the population.

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A)   25
B)   50
C)   75
D)   90
E)   none of these choicesF) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 9

"Varying Viewpoints" notes that Ulrich B.Phillips, in his book American Negro Slavery (1918)  made certain claims about slavery that have been challenged in recent years.Which of the following is not one of his conclusions?

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A)   Slaves were racially inferior.
B)   Slavery was an unprofitable economic institution.
C)   Planters treated their slaves with kindly paternalism.
D)   Slaves were passive by nature and did not abhor slavery.
E)   Slavery was comparable to the Nazi concentration camps.F) C) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 10

After 1830, the abolitionist movement took a new, more energetic tone, encouraged by the

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A)   British abolition of slavery in the British West Indies.
B)   religious spirit of the Second Great Awakening.
C)   success of the American Colonization Society.
D)   growing movement of voluntary emancipation by slave masters.
E)   growing political strength of the antislavery Liberty party.F) C) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 11

Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as

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A)   supporting their right to full citizenship.
B)   disliking the race but liking individual blacks.
C)   advocating black movement into the new territories.
D)   politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.
E)   race prejudice, not humanitarian.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 12

Assess the validity of the following statement, "slaves were better off than both wage earners in northern industry and free blacks back in Africa."

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Question 13

Plantation agriculture

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A)   had become largely unprofitable by the time of the Civil War.
B)   succeeded in a great variety of crops and climates.
C)   was financially risky and ecologically wasteful.
D)   brought many immigrants to the South.
E)   encouraged southern democracy.F) D) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 14

How did slavery affect both white and black families in the South? What justification was there for the saying that southerners liked blacks personally even while looking down on the race?

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Question 15

The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to

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A)   the reopening of the African slave trade in 1808.
B)   imports of slaves from the West Indies.
C)   natural reproduction.
D)   reenslavement of free blacks.
E)   the deliberate "breeding" of slaves by plantation owners.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 16

The voice of white southern abolitionism fell silent at the beginning of the

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A)   1790s.
B)   1820s.
C)   1830s.
D)   1840s.
E)   1850s.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 17

The plantation system of the Cotton South was

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A)   increasingly monopolized by a few large planters.
B)   efficient at utilizing natural resources.
C)   financially stable.
D)   attractive to European immigrants.
E)   unable to expand westward.F) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 18

The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because

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A)   they opposed slavery.
B)   they could not afford the purchase price.
C)   slavery was not profitable on small farms.
D)   their racism would not allow them to work alongside African Americans.
E)   they feared the possibility of slave revolts.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 19

The pre-Civil War South was characterized by

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A)   political domination by a planter oligarchy.
B)   the lack of free, tax-supported public education.
C)   a widening gap between rich and poor.
D)   plantation mistresses who ran large slave households.
E)   a dependence on northern and European manufactured goods.F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 20

In society's basement in the South of 1860 were nearly ____ black human chattels.

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A)   1 million
B)   2 million
C)   4 million
D)   8 million
E)   none of these choicesF) B) and E)
G) C) and E)

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