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The historian who wrote "The South [prior to the Civil War] grew, but did not develop" meant that

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It failed to move from an agrarian to industrial economy and the south did not benefit from their agricultural production

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Short-staple cotton

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Helped keep the South agricultural

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Between 1840 and 1860, the American South's slave population

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1. dramatically shifted into the Southwest 2. 410,000 slaves moved from upper south to the cotton states, helped troubled planters compensate for the declining value of their crops

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By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly__ of the total export trade of the United States.

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two-thirds

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By 1860, the textile manufacturing sector of the American South

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had increased threefold in value over the previous 20 years

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By the 1850's, the southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women

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Women, like children, have but one right, and that is the right to protection. The right to protection involves the obligation to obey."

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Most "plain folk" of the Old South

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were subsistence farmers

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Most white southerners owned

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no slaves

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Southern, white, lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in

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the mountain regions

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Which of the following statements about the poorest class of the white southerners is FALSE?

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They often felt affinity with slaves as members of another oppressed class

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Within the American South, the institution of slavery

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all these answers are correct was established and regulated meticulously by law

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The slave codes of the American South

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slaves couldn't: hold property, leave without permission, congregate except at church, carry guns, or hit a white person

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. Though the trade and sale of slaves continued to be legal inside the U.S, until the Civil War, the "slave trade, the importation of slaves from Africa or any other foreign locale, was made illegal in

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1808

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When the emancipation came after the Civil War, it was often the ________ who were the first to leave the plantation of their former owners

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house servants

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Which of the following statements regarding urban slavery is FALSE?

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urban slaves were prohibited from having contact with free blacks

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Of the following, the most common form of resistance to slavery was

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Poor work

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One actual slave revolt in the nineteenth- century South was led by

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Nat Turner

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The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the

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Underground Railroad

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A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was

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highly unlikely

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In the American slave family,

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extended kinship networks were strong and important

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Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum South?

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about ⅓ of the families were broken up by the sale of slaves

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In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism

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None of these answers is correct

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In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature

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was that American artists had little to offer Europe

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The Hudson River School of Painters Emphasized in their work the importance of

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natural beauty

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. Through American novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of

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America's Westward Expansion

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Walt Whitman

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celebrated the liberation of the individual.

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Herman Melville's most important literary work was

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Moby Dick, published in 1851.

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The transcendentalist movement

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emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal and imagination anticipated the environmental protection movement of the twentieth century.

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The primary goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was to

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to permit all members to realize their full potential as individual beings.

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Shaker Societies

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got their name because they were similar in their faith beliefs to Quakers but danced in a shaking manner as part of their religious services saw women exercise more power than men

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Mormonism

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reflected a belief in human perfectibility.

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In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States

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linked alcohol to crime and poverty.

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According to the nineteenth- century "science" of phrenology, what could be discerned from the shape of an individual's skull?

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intelligence and character

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During the nineteenth century, the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was the

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the absence of basic knowledge about disease.

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Prior to 1860, public education in the United States

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gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world.

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The nineteenth- century reformer Horace Mann believed that education should promote

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democracy

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The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill was

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Dorothea Dix

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The nineteenth century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was partially designed to

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All these answers are correct isolate and protect the Indians from white society, help "regenerate" them, and allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.

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In 1840, one catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention that dealt with

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abolition

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Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement?

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Fredrick Douglas

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spent years lecturing in England against slavery

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In the 1840s, abolitionists in the United States constituted

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a small percentage of the national population.

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In the 1830s and 1840s, abolitionists were divided

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All these answers are correct

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The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to

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spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience

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Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT that

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United States expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada

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In the 1820s, most of the settlers from the United States who migrated to Texas were

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white southerners and their slaves

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In 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto

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led to independence for texas

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In 1836, Texas did not immediately join the United States because

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president andrew jackson thought that action would add to sectional tensions

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In 1844, President James K. Polk supported the acquisition of

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oregon and texas

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In 1845, the immediate cause of war with Mexico was

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a border dispute

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Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States

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agreed to pay millions to mexico

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The Wilmot Proviso

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prohibited slavery in any land acquired from mexico

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The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California

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along with strengthened fugitive slave act

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The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

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intensified the debate over slavery

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The 1854 Ostend Manifesto

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was part of an attempt by the united states to acquire cuba

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In the 1850s, the issue of slavery complicated the proposal to build a transcontinental railroad as,

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non-slave-owning northerners and slave owning southerners could not agree on a route

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The 1853 Gadsden Purchase

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advanced the interests of southern railroads

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Which of the following statements regarding the Kansas- Nebraska Act is FALSE?

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it was sponsored by henry clay

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The Supreme Court held in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

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the missouri compromise was unconstitutional stated that slaves were not citizens that living in a free state did not make the slave free

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During the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates, it became clear that Lincoln

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lincoln believed slavery was morally wrong lincoln was not an abolitionist lincoln did not believe racial equality was feasible at the time

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