Question 1

At the center of slave culture was

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A)   singing and dancing.
B)   African traditions.
C)   separate slave quarters.
D)   family and religion.
E)   the practice of voodoo.

Question 2

How did life change for those living in the northern countryside?

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Question 3

The main paying profession open to middle class women during the first half of the 1800s was

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A)   bank accountant.
B)   shopkeeper.
C)   teaching.
D)   housekeeping.
E)   stenographer.

Question 4

The Underground Railroad was

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A)   a series of tunnels that ran north through the South to help slaves escape.
B)   a network of people who maintained safe houses, hid runaway slaves, and helped them escape to freedom.
C)   made up of abolitionist groups that printed secret newspapers to get the worst impact of slavery out to the public.
D)   a series of caves throughout western Kentucky and West Virginia that could house runaway slaves indefinitely.
E)   determined to transport all slaves who had run away to freedom in Canada.

Question 5

Which of the following is not true about leisure in antebellum urban America?

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A)   Professional sports like horse-racing and boxing attracted large crowds.
B)   Towns routinely constructed theaters early in their development where they featured Shakespeare plays, among others.
C)   Residents gathered and socialized in small taverns.
D)   Men and women mixed and mingled in urban theaters.
E)   Minstrel shows, which ridiculed African Americans, were a form of rural comedy theater performed predominately in the South.

Question 6

All of the following statements provide an accurate description of life in the pre-Civil War South except

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A)   The majority of white southerners were yeoman farmers.
B)   Most white Southerners did not own slaves.
C)   While most white southerners had no direct connection to a southern plantation, most slaves lived on plantations.
D)   A group of landless whites mostly worked as laborers on farms or settled the Southwest.
E)   Cotton was king-the most important source of agricultural revenue in the South.

Question 7

How did the lives of planters and of yeomen farmers differ from each other in the antebellum South?

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Question 8

Which of the following is not true about German immigrants to Milwaukee and St.Louis?

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A)   Most quickly came to identify themselves as German-American shortly after their establishment in the U.S.
B)   They built a brewing tradition that continues to this day.
C)   They formed Turnvereine in the spirit of the German liberation movement.
D)   They formed distinct ethnic neighborhoods and communities.
E)   They assimilated quickly enough not to face any significant nativist resentment.

Question 9

The traveling public affairs road show,where groups of speakers spoke in small towns,on a wide range of informative,provocative topics was called

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A)   the lyceum circuit.
B)   the Free Soil Party.
C)   revivalism.
D)   the 48ers.
E)   minstrel shows.

Question 10

Social mobility was usually limited in the antebellum,stratified social class system of the South,and when it did occur,it mostly pushed people downward.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The most significant part of African American worship that emerged during the 1800s was

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A)   singing, dancing, and clapping.
B)   spirituals that held messages of hope.
C)   lengthy sermons.
D)   the conviction that accepting their lot in this life would bring great rewards in the next one.
E)   All of these were of equal significance.

Question 12

Which of the following was not one of the most popular American novelists of the antebellum years?

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A)   Herman Melville
B)   Harriet Beecher-Stowe
C)   Nathaniel Hawthorne
D)   Upton Sinclair
E)   Fanny Fern

Question 13

Describe the growth of American cities in the North between 1830 and 1860.How did the immigrant population contribute to this growth?

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Question 14

The immigrants who arrived from the mid-1800s onward tended to avoid what area?

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A)   California
B)   Midwest (Old Northwest) 
C)   South
D)   Boston
E)   Middle Atlantic states

Question 15

Which of the following is true about Southern slaveholders in the antebellum years?

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A)   Slaves producing healthy offspring mattered to plantation owners because the United States had outlawed participating in the international slave trade in 1808.
B)   Slaveholders granted their slaves a variety of civil rights to keep them from running away.
C)   Slaveholders preferred newly imported African slaves over American-born ones.
D)   Slaveholders were severely restricted in their treatment of slaves by the law.
E)   Owners had the authority to legally marry their slaves.

Question 16

Northern newspapers usually exhibited strong political partisanship,because

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A)   they were usually financed by specific political parties.
B)   editors believed it was their duty to take a stand.
C)   it sold more papers.
D)   the public expected their local press to let them know all that was going on.
E)   politics had become such great entertainment, and newspapers simply added to the fun.

Question 17

Nativists especially resented Irish Catholic immigrants,who were always willing to work for lower wages than anyone else.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The actions slaves most often took to retaliate against the slave system would today be called passive resistance.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Which of the following is not a true statement about free blacks in antebellum America?

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A)   They established the African Methodist Episcopal (AM
E)   Church because they were barred from white churches.
B)   They founded voluntary groups promoting various reform causes.
C)   They supported the American Colonization Society's approach to ending slavery.
D)   They were early leaders in the abolitionist movement.
E)   The educated among them wanted to be called "colored Americans" rather than "Negroes."

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The immigrants who arrived from the mid-1800s onward tended to avoid what area?

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The actions slaves most often took to retaliate against the slave system would today be called passive resistance.

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How did the lives of planters and of yeomen farmers differ from each other in the antebellum South?

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At the center of slave culture was

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

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The main paying profession open to middle class women during the first half of the 1800s was

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The traveling public affairs road show,where groups of speakers spoke in small towns,on a wide range of informative,provocative topics was called

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Which of the following is not true about German immigrants to Milwaukee and St.Louis?

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Which of the following is true about Southern slaveholders in the antebellum years?

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How did life change for those living in the northern countryside?

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The most significant part of African American worship that emerged during the 1800s was

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All of the following statements provide an accurate description of life in the pre-Civil War South except

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Describe the growth of American cities in the North between 1830 and 1860.How did the immigrant population contribute to this growth?

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Social mobility was usually limited in the antebellum,stratified social class system of the South,and when it did occur,it mostly pushed people downward.

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Nativists especially resented Irish Catholic immigrants,who were always willing to work for lower wages than anyone else.

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Which of the following was not one of the most popular American novelists of the antebellum years?

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