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Chapter 11-12

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1. What cleared the way for eastern people to resettle in the Deep South?
a. Missouri Compromise of 1820
b. Tariff of Abominations
c. Indian Removal Act of 1830
d. The Civil War
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1. What cleared the way for eastern people to resettle in the Deep South?
a. Missouri Compromise of 1820
b. Tariff of Abominations
c. Indian Removal Act of 1830
d. The Civil War
C
2. By 1860, cotton exports made up ____ of all American exports.
a. 19%
b. 33%
c. 60%
d. 90%
C
Which of the following numbers is closest to the number of enslaved people living in the
South in 1860?
a. 50,000
b. 400,000
c. 2 million
d. 4 million
D
In the decades before the Civil War, between one-fifth and one-third of all slave marriages
were broken up via _________.
a. Sale or forced migration
b. Divorce or separation
c. Masters requiring remarriage to different partners
d. Murder
A
What was the impact of Nat Turner's rebellion?
a. Black-led churches were broken up
b. Anti-literacy laws increased
c. Transformed southern religion
d. All the above
D
Where was the Southern middle class the strongest?
a. Rural communities
b. Southern cities (this is what i got i am pretty sure its right)
c. Isolated islands off the Gulf Coast
d. Plantations
B
In which region was ethnic homogeneity the strongest among enslaved people?
a. Tidewater
b. Appalachian Ridge
c. North Florida
d. Coastal South Carolina
D
Which African country was founded by African Americans? (HELP)
a. Sierra Leone
b. Ghana
c. Liberia
d. Nigeria
C
Why did Celia kill her enslaver?
a. To escape rape
b. To protect her husband
c. To protect her property
d. She was blamed for a murder she did not commit.
A
What happened to Nat Turner?
a. Escaped to the North
b. Executed
c. Sold into slavery in the Caribbean
d. His body was never found
B
How did evangelicalism influence racial relations in the U.S. South?
a. Reinforced proslavery ideas
b. Increased the prevalence of Protestantism among African Americans
c. Created bi-racial congregations
d. All the above
C
. Which of the following best describes the relationship of femininity and domesticity in the
South?
a. Domesticity limited the opportunities of wealthy white women to engage in the
public sphere
b. Domesticity opened opportunities of wealthy white women to engage in the public
sphere
c. Domesticity played a very small role in the lives of white women
d. Domesticity was only applied to African American women
A
In a world of racialized violence and dominance, southern society sought to protect the
sexual purity of
a. Black women
b. Black men
c. White women
d. White men
C
The idea of Manifest Destiny meant which of the following?
a. The strength of American values and institutions justified moral claims to leadership
b. Lands on the North American continent west of the Mississippi River (and later into
the Caribbean) were destined for political and agricultural improvement
c. God and the Constitution ordained an irrepressible destiny to accomplish
redemption and democratization
d. All of the above
D
Seminole Indians were aided by what group during the Second Seminole War?
a. Cherokee Indians
b. Free blacks and escaped slaves
c. Spanish royal forces
d. British merchants
B