The South Test - Treva Rogers | Biblioteka

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What was the largest social group living in the South?

free African-Americans

white yeoman farmers/workers

plantation owners

slaves

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How did the cotton gin make processing cotton easier?

It made planting cotton easier and more efficient/

Picking cotton became easier and more efficient.

The selling and distribution of cotton became easier.

Seeds were easier to remove.

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What areas made up the cotton belt?

The states and territories west of the Mississippi.

The southwest territories gained from Mexico.

The south from the atlantic to Texas

The north from New York to Iowa

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Which of the following was a segment of Southern Society?

slaves

free African-Americans

plantation owners

yeomen

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How did the Indian Removal Act affect the expansion of slavery?

Removal of Native Americans allowed for cultivation of cotton by settlers.

Northerners wanted an area to keep slavery contained.

Slaves were able to excape to the west with Native Americans.

Native Americans were against slavery.

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What effects did states' strict codes have on enslaved African Americans' lives?

kept slaves isolated

dehumanized

encouraged family, community and religion

illiterate

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Slave uprisings led to

increased literacy among free African Americans

strength in slave communities.

stricter slave codes.

increased freedom in slave states.

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What span of time saw the largest increase in cotton production?

1800-1820

1820-1840

1840-1860

after 1860

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The main reason for the changes showing in the graph was

a decline in the number of slaves.

the end of the international slave trade.

a swich from food crops to cash crops.

the invention and use of the cotton gin.

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Which statement accurately describes southern society in the mid-1800's

Very few white southerners owned slaves.

Many African Americans in the South owned land.

Few white southerners owned the land they farmed.

Most white souteherners were small farmers.

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Free African Americans in the South in the early and mid-1800s

had the same rights and freedoms as white southerners.

had few rights and freedoms.

usually had escaped from slavery.

could travel freely in their home states.

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The most famous leader of the Underground Railroad was

Frederick Douglass

Harriet Tubman

William Lloyd Garrison

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Which of these statements about the education of African Americans in the mid-1800s is not true?

Opportunities for college were rare until black college were rare until black colleges were founded in the 1840s.

African American students often went to separate schools from white students

Educational opportunities generally were greater in the North than in the South.

Southern African Americans benefited from the educational reforms of Horace Mann.

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The temperance movement, efforts at prison reform and the abolition movement were all elements of

social reforms of the mid-1800s.

the Second Great Awakening

transcendentalism

the women's rights movement