Question 1

Which of the following best describes the actual treatment of slaves by slaveholders in the antebellum South?

Accepted Answer

A)   Humane
B)   Indifferent
C)   Benignly protective
D)   Sympathetic
E)   Cruelly coercive and violently punitive

Question 2

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 3

Which of the following was not part of a typical cotton plantation system?

Accepted Answer

A)   Gangs of twenty or twenty-five workers
B)   Sundays off for the slaves
C)   Up to sixteen-hour work days
D)   The task system
E)   A half day off on Saturdays

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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 5

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

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Question 6

Congress adopted a "gag rule" in 1837

Accepted Answer

A)   to prevent southerners from seeking federal compensation for runaway slaves.
B)   to legally table debates about slavery as a way to keep sectional peace.
C)   to silence former president, now representative, John Quincy Adams.
D)   to ban protests by free laborers who were opposed to slavery.
E)   to stop Georgia from offering a bounty on William Lloyd Garrison.

Question 7

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Writers who suggested that slavery was necessary to protect blacks who were unable to care for themselves,and who began to reference the Bible when supporting slavery,helped slave owners rationalize that slavery was a "positive good" for all concerned.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Thomas R.Dew and George Fitzhugh advocated a new position on slavery that was adopted by the slaveholding South.It advocated that

Accepted Answer

A)   slavery benefitted both races.
B)   slavery was a "necessary good," since blacks were unable to take care of themselves.
C)   the institution was sanctioned by God.
D)   All of these choices.
E)   None of these choices.

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

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."

Question 13

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

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Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

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 15

At the center of slave culture was

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

How did Americans respond to the influx of immigrants in the mid nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)   They disliked many groups but were more accepting of Irish and German immigrants.
B)   Many people formulated a new racial and ethnic identity about what it meant to be an American that differentiated them as better than most immigrants.
C)   They encouraged immigrants to seek jobs in all categories of business - just as long as they were working.
D)   They insisted on English-only education in the public schools.
E)   Americans passed new laws stressing religious toleration.

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

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 18

An unusual aspect of many plays performed in the nineteenth century was that they

Accepted Answer

A)   were mainly meant to deliver a moral message.
B)   often depicted slavery, even though most playwrights hated the institution itself.
C)   were usually adapted from popular books of the period.
D)   usually expected participation from the audience.
E)   tended to have integrated audiences.

Question 19

By 1860,the foreign-born of the North comprised about ____ of the U.S.population.

Accepted Answer

A)   one-tenth
B)   one-fourth
C)   one-third
D)   one-half
E)   one-fifth

Question 20

Unlike the Irish immigrants of the 1840s and 50s,the German immigrants that came to America in the wake of the failed German revolution of 1848 were generally educated and financially well off.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 12: A Regionalized America, 1830-1860

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

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By 1860,the foreign-born of the North comprised about ____ of the U.S.population.

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Writers who suggested that slavery was necessary to protect blacks who were unable to care for themselves,and who began to reference the Bible when supporting slavery,helped slave owners rationalize that slavery was a "positive good" for all concerned.

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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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Which of the following best describes the actual treatment of slaves by slaveholders in the antebellum 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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How did Americans respond to the influx of immigrants in the mid nineteenth century?

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

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Congress adopted a "gag rule" in 1837

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

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Which of the following was not part of a typical cotton plantation system?

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Northern newspapers usually exhibited strong political partisanship,because

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Unlike the Irish immigrants of the 1840s and 50s,the German immigrants that came to America in the wake of the failed German revolution of 1848 were generally educated and financially well off.

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

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Thomas R.Dew and George Fitzhugh advocated a new position on slavery that was adopted by the slaveholding South.It advocated that

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

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