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Why was the South on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution by 1840?
It produced and exported over two-thirds of the world's cotton supply.
The cotton boom that began in the 1810s set which of the following results in motion?
The redistribution of the African American population
Which of these statements describes the planter aristocrats who lived in the cotton-growing regions of the South in the mid-nineteenth century?
Aristocratic planters took the lead in defending slavery as a benevolent social system
Which of the following statements characterizes blacks’ resistance to slavery by the 1820s?
In their situation, most blacks had no choice but to build the best possible lives for themselves.
What did nineteenth-century American expansionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?
The citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean
The U.S. federal government participated in the expansion of slavery during the early to mid-1800s through which of the following?
The Indian Removal Act
The domestic slave trade affected the African American family unit before 1865 by
Separating family members through sale and trade
The notion of slavery as a “necessary evil” and a “positive good” was supported by which idea?
Slavery allowed a civilized lifestyle for whites and cared for genetically inferior blacks.
Slaves’ practice of “taking root” involved which of the following?
Building the best possible lives for themselves as slaves
How did Oregon fever affect national politics in the United States in 1844?
The possibility of expansion into Texas became a major issue in the presidential election
Which of these factors explained the surplus of slaves in the Chesapeake region in the early nineteenth century?
Population growth through natural reproduction
Which of the following statements was true of the American South in 1860?
The vast majority of southern white families did not own any slaves.
Smallholding planters in the nineteenth-century South owned about how many slaves, on average?
One to Five
Which of these factors made enslaved African Americans reluctant to attempt to escape to the North?
They hesitated to leave their families and communities behind.
Which of the following was the critical issue facing political parties in the late 1840s?
Expansion of slavery
Which factor led to planters’ need to smuggle slaves into the country rather than import them legally?
Congressional legislation
Which of the following statements characterizes the planter elite of the Upper South in the early and mid 1800s?
Many elite planters considered themselves benevolent masters
Which of the following were core institutions for African American society in the mid-nineteenth-century South?
Church and family
Which of the following is true of free blacks in the South?
They became the backbone of the south's urban artisan workforce.
James K. Polk’s declaration that American blood had been shed “upon American soil” was his call for
War with Mexico
Why did a labor crisis develop in the Cotton South in the first few decades of the 1800s?
Planters heading west needed many new slaves to clear, plant, and harvest the land
Which of these statements describes Southern rice planters of the mid-nineteenth century?
They were at the apex of the plantation aristocracy
Which of these factors prompted many plantation masters to reduce reliance on violence and adopt positive incentives to motivate slaves in the 1830s and 1840s?
Abolitionist scrutiny
In the nineteenth-century South, free blacks lived primarily
In the coastal cities in the upper south.
What did the Wilmot Proviso, introduced in Congress in 1846, propose to do?
Prohibit slavery in any territory the US acquired from Mexico