Question 1

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852 by

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A)  Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
B)  William Lloyd Garrison. 
C)  Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
D)  Margaret Fuller. 
E)  Harriet Tubman. 
A)  Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
B)  William Lloyd Garrison. 
C)  Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
D)  Margaret Fuller. 
E)  Harriet Tubman.

Question 2

All of the following were characteristic 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 dusk to dawn in the fields. 
C)  slaves 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. 
A)  slaves had no civil or political rights. 
B)  slaves usually toiled from dusk to dawn in the fields. 
C)  slaves 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.

Question 3

For free blacks living in the North

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A)  living conditions were nearly equal to those for whites. 
B)  voting rights were widespread. 
C)  good jobs were plentiful. 
D)  education opened the door to economic opportunity. 
E)  discrimination against blacks concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public educationwas common. 
A)  living conditions were nearly equal to those for whites. 
B)  voting rights were widespread. 
C)  good jobs were plentiful. 
D)  education opened the door to economic opportunity. 
E)  discrimination against blacks concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public educationwas common.

Question 4

Even those who did not own slaves in the pre-Civil War South supported that institution because they

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A)  dreamed of one day owning slaves themselves. 
B)  presumed themselves racially superior to black slaves. 
C)  were always economically better off than slaves. 
D)  were closely related to people who did own slaves. 
E)  benefited from the economic growth of the region. 
A)  dreamed of one day owning slaves themselves. 
B)  presumed themselves racially superior to black slaves. 
C)  were always economically better off than slaves. 
D)  were closely related to people who did own slaves. 
E)  benefited from the economic growth of the region.

Question 5

​In Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery, the contemporary historian Eugene Genovese agrees with previous historians of American slavery that

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A)  ​this southern institutionembraced a form of economic paternalism which reflected the need of southern slaveholders to control and coax labor out of their reluctant and recalcitrant "investments." 
B)  southern slaveholders actually treated slaves with a kindly and caring paternalism throughout the lives of most slaves. 
C)  ​blacks were inferior and submissive by nature, facilitating their participation in the institution of southern slavery. 
D)  ​blacks did not abhor the coercive social and economic institution that enslaved them. 
E)  ​this southern institution was notunderpinned by racist attitudes by southern slaveholders and most other southerners as well. 
A)  ​this southern institutionembraced a form of economic paternalism which reflected the need of southern slaveholders to control and coax labor out of their reluctant and recalcitrant "investments." 
B)  southern slaveholders actually treated slaves with a kindly and caring paternalism throughout the lives of most slaves. 
C)  ​blacks were inferior and submissive by nature, facilitating their participation in the institution of southern slavery. 
D)  ​blacks did not abhor the coercive social and economic institution that enslaved them. 
E)  ​this southern institution was notunderpinned by racist attitudes by southern slaveholders and most other southerners as well.

Question 6

The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was

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A)  a recognition of blacks' desire to preserve their culture. 
B)  never carried out. 
C)  advocated by Frederick Douglass. 
D)  proposed by the African nation of Liberia. 
E)  an expression of widespread American racism. 
A)  a recognition of blacks' desire to preserve their culture. 
B)  never carried out. 
C)  advocated by Frederick Douglass. 
D)  proposed by the African nation of Liberia. 
E)  an expression of widespread American racism.

Question 7

Elaborate on the text authors' comment that with the invention of the cotton gin, "the slave [was] ...chained to the gin and the planter to the slave."

Accepted Answer

The text authors' comment that with the

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852 by

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

For free blacks living in the North

Even those who did not own slaves in the pre-Civil War South supported that institution because they

In Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery, the contemporary historian Eugene Genovese agrees with previous historians of American slavery that

The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was

Elaborate on the text authors' comment that with the invention of the cotton gin, "the slave [was] ...chained to the gin and the planter to the slave."

New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E.

The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775

The Duel for North America, 1608-1763

The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840

Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

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Exam 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852 by

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

For free blacks living in the North

Even those who did not own slaves in the pre-Civil War South supported that institution because they

​In Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery, the contemporary historian Eugene Genovese agrees with previous historians of American slavery that

The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was

Elaborate on the text authors' comment that with the invention of the cotton gin, "the slave [was] ...chained to the gin and the planter to the slave."

New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E.

The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775

The Duel for North America, 1608-1763

The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840

Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

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In Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery, the contemporary historian Eugene Genovese agrees with previous historians of American slavery that