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1. Members of the planter aristocracy dominated society and politics in the South.
2. All of the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom
a. cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840
b. the South produced more than half the entire world·s supply of cotton
c. 75% of the British supply of cotton came from the South
d. quick profits from cottonattracted planters to its economic enterprise
3. Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because its excessive cultivation of cotton
despoiled good land.
4. Plantation mistresses commanded a sizeable household staff of mostly female slaves.
5. Plantation agriculture was economically unstable and wasteful.
6. The plantation system of the Cotton South was increasingly monopolistic.
7. All of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system
a. it stimulated racism among poor whites
b. it relied on a one-crop economy
c. it created an aristocratic political elite
d. it repelled a large-scale European immigration
8. All told, only about  of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding
family.
9. 
 
 said the following quote: ´I think we must get rid of slavery or we
must get rid of freedom.µ
10. As their main crop, southern subsistence farmers raised corn.
11. Most white southerners were subsistence farmers.
12. By the mid-nineteenth century most slaves lived on large plantations.
13. The majority of southern white owned no slaves because they could not afford the
purchase price.
14. The most pro-Union of the white southerners were mountain whites.
15. Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of purchasing their way out of
slavery.
16. The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was
largely due to natural reproduction.
17. Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as disliking the individuals
but liking the race.
18. The profitable southern slave system hobbled the economic development of the region as a
whole.
19. Regarding work assignments, slaves were generally spared dangerous work.
20. Perhaps the slave·s greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher
Stowe·s Uncle Tom·s Cabin was the enforced separation of slave families.
21. By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the ´black beltµ located in the Deep South states of
Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana.
22. As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slave owners most often used the whip as a
motivator.
23. By 1860, life for slaves was most difficult in the newer states of Alabama, Mississippi, and
Louisiana.
24. Forced separation for spouses, parents, and children was most common on small
plantation and in the upper South.
25. Most slaves were raised in stable two-parent households.
26. As a result of white southerners· brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential
slave rebellions, the South developed a theory of biological racial superiority.
27. In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave
resistance was armed insurrection.
28. The idea of re-colonizing blacks back to Africa was supported by the black leader Martin
Delaney.
29. Match each abolitionist below with his publication:
a. Garrison³K

 
b. Weld³

 


c. Douglass³  


d. Walker³

 
  

 
 
30. Arrange the following in chronological order as to when they were founded:
American Colonization Society
American Anti-Slavery Society
Liberty Party
31. William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to the immediate abolition of slavery in the
South.
32. Match each abolitionist below with his role in the movement:
a. Phillips³abolitionist orator
b. Douglass³black abolitionist
c. Lovejoy³abolitionist martyr
d. Garrison³abolitionist newspaper publisher
33. Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840 when they backed the presidential
candidate of the Liberty Party.
34. In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners placed themselves in
opposition to much of the rest of the Western world.
35. Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery
were creating disorder in America.

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1. John Tyler joined the Whig party because he could not stomach the dictatorial tactics of
Andrew Jackson.
2. The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to attract votes of states·
rightists.
3. The Aroostook War was the result of a dispute over the northern boundary of Maine.
4. Arrange the following in chronological order:
Aroostook War
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
annexation of Texas
settlement of the Oregon boundary
5. Some people in Britain hoped for a British alliance with Texas because the alliance would
give abolitionists the opportunity to free slaves in Texas.
6. One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the acquisition might
give more power to the supporters of slavery.
7. Arrange in chronological order of the acquisition of Oregon, Texas, and California
Texas
Oregon
California
8. The primary group that was instrumental in strengthening and saving American claims to
Oregon were American missionaries to the Indians.
9. Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the rich soil of the
Willamette River Valley.
10. The nomination of James K. Polk as the Democrats· 1844 presidential candidate was
secured by Southern expansionists.
11. In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching
across North America was called manifest destiny.
12. The group most supportive of gaining control of all the Oregon Country was the northern
Democrats.
13. In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the United States was
established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of 49 degrees.
14. In his quest for California, President Polk first advocated buying the area from Mexico.
15. Arrange the following in chronological order:
Slidell mission rejected
American troops ordered to the Rio Grande valley
declaration of war on Mexico
Bear Flag revolt
16. In 1846 the United States went to war with Mexico for all the following reasons:
a. Polk·s desire to acquire California
b. desire to gain payment for damage claims against the Mexican government
c. deaths of American soldiers at the hands of Mexicans
d. the ideology of Manifest Destiny
17. President Polk·s claim that ´American blood had been shed on the American soilµ referred
to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near the Rio Grande.
18. During the Mexican War, the Polk administration was called on several times to respond to
´spotµ resolutions indicating where American had been shed to provoke the war. The
resolutions were frequently introduced by Abraham Lincoln
19. When the war with Mexico began, President Polk hoped to fight a limited war, ending with
the conquest of California.
20. The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican War included United
States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico.
21. Those people most opposed to President James K. Polk·s expansionist program were the
antislavery forces.
22. The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that
slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States.
23. The largest single addition to American territory was the Mexican Cession.
24. When the Mexican government secularized authority in California, Californios eventually
gained control of the land.
25. The Californio·s political ascendancy in California ended as a result of the influx of Anglo
gold diggers.