Question 1

According to Thomas R. Dew and George Fitzhugh, slavery was:

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A)  a necessary evil.
B)  disadvantageous to southern blacks.
C)  a positive good.
D)  an inhumane practice.
E)  disadvantageous to whites.

Question 2

Identify a true statement about the slave community.

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A)  Slave marriages were legally recognized.
B)  Slave masters were forbidden from separating parents from their children.
C)  Slaves maintained traditional nuclear families whenever possible.
D)  Maintaining a two-parent family was well within the control of the slaves.
E)  Premarital sex was uncommon in slave quarters.

Question 3

Which of the following statements is true of communal values in the northern countryside between 1830 and 1860?

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A)  Farm families stopped going to church.
B)  Politics was an unfavorable topic for discussion.
C)  Social networks were strong.
D)  Most farm families in western Pennsylvania were exclusively producers.
E)  Most farm families in the "Old Northwest" of Illinois were exclusively consumers.

Question 4

Gone with the Wind provided a generally accurate picture of the antebellum South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

How did white Virginians respond to Nat Turner's insurrection?

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A)  They freed around 100 slaves involved in the insurrection.
B)  They indiscriminately killed more than 200 slaves.
C)  They lent their support to the antislavery movement.
D)  They captured and deported the offending slaves.
E)  They acquiesced to the slaves' demands for emancipation.

Question 6

Describe the effects of the Second Great Awakening on slaves.

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During the Second Great Awakening, most ...

Question 7

Elaborate on the slave society in the South.

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Life for slaves was arduous, a relentles...

Question 8

Discuss the characteristics of yeoman farmers.

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Yeoman farmers were largely self-suffici...

Question 9

Which of the following is a true statement about the gang system?

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A)  It assigned each slave a specific set of tasks that had to be completed each day.
B)  Under this system, slaves were organized into groups of five.
C)  It was most commonly used in coffee cultivation.
D)  Most masters, in keeping with their Christian beliefs, gave their slaves Sundays off.
E)  It was banned in the South.

Question 10

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin .

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Congress adopted a "gag rule" in 1836 to:

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A)  legally table discussions about abolition.
B)  prevent southerners from seeking federal compensation for runaway slaves.
C)  ban protests by free laborers who were opposed to slavery.
D)  stop Georgia from offering a bounty for the capture of William Lloyd Garrison.
E)  prevent immigrants from entering the country.

Question 12

Even though there were official limits on the treatment of slaves, they were unenforceable because slaves were prohibited from taking their masters to court.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

_________ was a political identity that defined an American as someone with an English background who was born in the United States. 
A. Communism 
B. Nativism 
C. Transcendentalism 
D. Democratism

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The answer of _________ was a political identity that defined...

Question 14

Which of the following is a true statement about slave society in the antebellum years?

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A)  Slave families were protected by the law.
B)  Slaves were allowed to take their masters to court.
C)  Slaveholders were forced by law to treat their slaves benevolently.
D)  Slaves were treated humanely in the antebellum South.
E)  Slave reproduction mattered to plantation owners.

Question 15

One slave who successfully escaped bondage, settled in the North, and wrote an autobiography was _____.

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A)  Fredrick Douglass
B)  Harriet Tubman
C)  William Lloyd Garrison
D)  Nat Turner
E)  Catharine Beecher

Question 16

Describe the life of the planters in the South.

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The planters viewed themselves as patern...

Question 17

The communications and transportation revolutions that were associated with the Industrial Revolution sewed together the vast stretch of lands in the northern United States.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Elaborate on the social class distinctions in antebellum America.

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In addition to the formation of racial a...

Question 19

The South depended on the high tariffs of the American System to protect its growing manufacturing concerns.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The best-selling book of the 1850s was _____.

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A)  The Confessions of Nat Turner
B)  Gone with the Wind
C)  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
D)  A Scarlet Letter
E)  Uncle Tom's Cabin

Exam 12: A Regionalized America, 1830-1860

According to Thomas R. Dew and George Fitzhugh, slavery was:

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Identify a true statement about the slave community.

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One slave who successfully escaped bondage, settled in the North, and wrote an autobiography was _____.

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Congress adopted a "gag rule" in 1836 to:

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Describe the effects of the Second Great Awakening on slaves.

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Even though there were official limits on the treatment of slaves, they were unenforceable because slaves were prohibited from taking their masters to court.

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Discuss the characteristics of yeoman farmers.

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Describe the life of the planters in the South.

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Gone with the Wind provided a generally accurate picture of the antebellum South.

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Elaborate on the social class distinctions in antebellum America.

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How did white Virginians respond to Nat Turner's insurrection?

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Elaborate on the slave society in the South.

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Which of the following is a true statement about the gang system?

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Which of the following is a true statement about slave society in the antebellum years?

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The South depended on the high tariffs of the American System to protect its growing manufacturing concerns.

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The communications and transportation revolutions that were associated with the Industrial Revolution sewed together the vast stretch of lands in the northern United States.

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Which of the following statements is true of communal values in the northern countryside between 1830 and 1860?

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The best-selling book of the 1850s was _____.

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_________ was a political identity that defined an American as someone with an English background who was born in the United States. A. Communism B. Nativism C. Transcendentalism D. Democratism

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin .

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