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Chapter 10 Summative Quiz

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1. How did slavery stunt the development of other important industries and institutions in the South?

Slavery was so controversial that northerners did not want to do business with the South.

Wealthy people invested all of their money in slavery and nothing else.

The plantation economy required rural settlements and deterred the development of great cities.

Southerners agreed to rely on the North for manufacturing and education in exchange for their reliance on southern goods.

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2. What development led slaveholders to treat slaves better and increasingly view them as “valuable property”?

Exposure of planters’ violent practices

Realization that planters’ behavior was inhumane

The end of the international slave trade

The increase in demand for cotton

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3. Which slaves were most likely to successfully run away in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

Young men and women from the fields

Skilled male slaves with greater mobility

Single men without ties

Female domestics with the trust of their mistress

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4. News of Nat Turner’s rebellion in 1831 was especially frightening to slaveholders because Turner

managed to unite free blacks and slaves.

managed to inspire slaves to kill their owners.

seemed like an obedient, submissive slave prior to this event.

recruited poor whites to help in his rebellion.

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5. Why did slave women generally fail at their runaway attempts?

They often returned to visit family.

They weren’t as strong or fast as men.

They weren’t highly motivated because they weren’t treated badly.

Women were more likely to get lost in the woods.

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6. Who fit the description of a “yeoman farmer”?

Small-scale farmers who owned fewer than six slaves

Independent landowners who did not own slaves

Landowners of any scale who owned fewer than ten slaves

Farmers who worked leased land without slave labor

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7. In 1834, which country became the first to abolish slavery and did so without bloodshed?

Great Britain

France

Brazil

United States

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8. What led many poor southern whites to support the institution of slavery?

Economic dependence on slaveholders

Competition with free blacks

Religious teachings and practices

Negative experiences with slaves

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9. What caused the Second Seminole War in the 1830s?

White settlers opened fire on Seminole Indians, against terms of the Indian Removal Act.

The Seminole and the Cherokee fought over lucrative land along the Mississippi River.

The U.S. military forcibly removed Seminoles from their land.

The Seminole Indians attacked white settlers who came to take their land.

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10. In his approach to Indian/white relations, Cherokee leader John Ross

advocated peaceful but separate coexistence.

called for mutual respect of cultural traditions.

promoted Indian diet and lifestyle as valuable to whites.

promoted “Americanization” of the Indians.

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11. What is meant by manifest destiny as touted by politicians during the 1840s?

The right of opposing legislative parties to debate is vital to democracy and preordained by the Enlightenment.

Political parties must agree to a “manifest” before each campaign cycle.

The United States has a God-given right to expand its borders.

The United States has proven its destiny as the most powerful country in the world.

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12. The Wilmot Proviso, which passed in the House in 1846, proposed that

the territory acquired from Mexico be partly divided among Indian tribes.

the territory acquired from Mexico be divided between Indians, free blacks, and white settlers.

slavery be abolished in the territory acquired from Mexico.

slavery be protected in the territory acquired from Mexico.