Question 1

Until the 1840s, the North and the South were similar in which of the following ways?

Accepted Answer

A)  Both regions tried to apply the states' rights doctrine against federal authority with nearly equal frequency. 
B)  Both regions had an equal commitment to industrialization. 
C)  Slavery was clearly profitable in both regions. 
D)  Both regions invested heavily in the building of canals and railroads. 
A)  Both regions tried to apply the states' rights doctrine against federal authority with nearly equal frequency. 
B)  Both regions had an equal commitment to industrialization. 
C)  Slavery was clearly profitable in both regions. 
D)  Both regions invested heavily in the building of canals and railroads.

Question 2

Who was the ex-slave who led black abolitionists during the antebellum period?

Accepted Answer

A)  Frederick Douglass 
B)  Louisiana Tubman 
C)  Samuel Fleming 
D)  Thomas Supten 
A)  Frederick Douglass 
B)  Louisiana Tubman 
C)  Samuel Fleming 
D)  Thomas Supten

Question 3

After which year did the interests and social structures of the North and South diverge?

Accepted Answer

A)  1850 
B)  1804 
C)  1904 
D)  1815 
A)  1850 
B)  1804 
C)  1904 
D)  1815

Question 4

Which of the following best describes the relations between men and women of the planter class?

Accepted Answer

A)  Paternalistic 
B)  Honorable 
C)  Mutually respectful 
D)  Contemptuous 
A)  Paternalistic 
B)  Honorable 
C)  Mutually respectful 
D)  Contemptuous

Question 5

Southern yeomen farmers who migrated into the area west of the Appalachians in the early nineteenth century wanted to:

Accepted Answer

A)  Take advantage of the expanding market economy by becoming commercial farmers 
B)  Establish a nonslaveholding agrarian society 
C)  Take advantage of the lucrative fur trade in the region 
D)  Acquire rich, fertile farmland 
A)  Take advantage of the expanding market economy by becoming commercial farmers 
B)  Establish a nonslaveholding agrarian society 
C)  Take advantage of the lucrative fur trade in the region 
D)  Acquire rich, fertile farmland

Question 6

Which of the following was the main determinant of a man's wealth and social position in the South?

Accepted Answer

A)  The size and furnishing of his home 
B)  The amount of land and the number of slaves he owned 
C)  The value of his stockholdings and the amount of money readily available to him in his bank account 
D)  The extent of his involvement in community affairs. 
A)  The size and furnishing of his home 
B)  The amount of land and the number of slaves he owned 
C)  The value of his stockholdings and the amount of money readily available to him in his bank account 
D)  The extent of his involvement in community affairs.

Question 7

The paternalistic ideology of the elite plantation class:

Accepted Answer

A)  Masked the harsher beliefs of rich planters concerning the inferiority of blacks and the importance of making money 
B)  Was nothing more than a myth advanced by Southern writers 
C)  Was used to hide the belief by slaveowners that slavery was morally wrong 
D)  Was openly questioned by religious leaders in the antebellum South 
A)  Masked the harsher beliefs of rich planters concerning the inferiority of blacks and the importance of making money 
B)  Was nothing more than a myth advanced by Southern writers 
C)  Was used to hide the belief by slaveowners that slavery was morally wrong 
D)  Was openly questioned by religious leaders in the antebellum South

Question 8

Which of the following was true of free blacks in the South between 1830 and 1860?

Accepted Answer

A)  They often owned land. 
B)  They usually worked as paid skilled laborers. 
C)  They were legally required to move to a free state or face being enslaved. 
D)  They were not legally permitted to own a gun. 
A)  They often owned land. 
B)  They usually worked as paid skilled laborers. 
C)  They were legally required to move to a free state or face being enslaved. 
D)  They were not legally permitted to own a gun.

Question 9

Examine the nature and extent of slave resistance. What was the primary objective of most modes of resistance?

Accepted Answer

Slave resistance took many forms, includ

Until the 1840s, the North and the South were similar in which of the following ways?

Who was the ex-slave who led black abolitionists during the antebellum period?

After which year did the interests and social structures of the North and South diverge?

Which of the following best describes the relations between men and women of the planter class?

Southern yeomen farmers who migrated into the area west of the Appalachians in the early nineteenth century wanted to:

Which of the following was the main determinant of a man's wealth and social position in the South?

The paternalistic ideology of the elite plantation class:

Which of the following was true of free blacks in the South between 1830 and 1860?

Examine the nature and extent of slave resistance. What was the primary objective of most modes of resistance?

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The Ends of Empire, 1754-1774

American Revolutions, 1775-1783

Forging a Nation, 1783-1800

Defining the Nation, 1801-1823

The Restless North, 1815-1860

The Contested West, 1815-1860

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Exam 9: The Rise of the South, 1815-1860

Until the 1840s, the North and the South were similar in which of the following ways?

Who was the ex-slave who led black abolitionists during the antebellum period?

After which year did the interests and social structures of the North and South diverge?

Which of the following best describes the relations between men and women of the planter class?

Southern yeomen farmers who migrated into the area west of the Appalachians in the early nineteenth century wanted to:

Which of the following was the main determinant of a man's wealth and social position in the South?

The paternalistic ideology of the elite plantation class:

Which of the following was true of free blacks in the South between 1830 and 1860?

Examine the nature and extent of slave resistance. What was the primary objective of most modes of resistance?

Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492-1600

Europeans Colonize North America, 1600-1650

North America in the Atlantic World, 1650-1720

Becoming America, 1720-1760

The Ends of Empire, 1754-1774

American Revolutions, 1775-1783

Forging a Nation, 1783-1800

Defining the Nation, 1801-1823

The Restless North, 1815-1860

The Contested West, 1815-1860

Politics and the Fate of the Union, 1824-1859

Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1860-1865

Reconstruction: an Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877

The Ecology of the West and South, 1865-1900

Building Factories, Building Cities, 1877-1900

Gilded Age Politics, 1877-1900

The Progressive ERA, 1895-1920

The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914

Americans in the Great War, 1914-1920

The New ERA, 1920-1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945

The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961

America at Midcentury, 1945-1960

The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960-1968

A Pivotal ERA, 1969-1980

Conservatism Revived, 1980-1992

Into the Global Millennium: America Since 1992

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