Test 5: the old south and politics of slavery

Ø  The majority of white men in the antebellum South were

      nonslaveholding family farmers

Ø  As compared to the North, the Old South had a higher

      murder rate

Ø  Most blacks in the antebellum South

      became obedient and docile because of the Christian promise of reward in heaven for faithful servants

Ø  Slave rebellions led by Nat Turner and others:

      resulted in part from convictions that God had chosen him them to liberate his people

Ø  What was primarily responsible for the transformation of the South from a stagnant society in 1790 to a dynamic and prosperous area by 1850

      “King Cotton"

Ø  Life for most plantation mistresses was marked by

      isolation, drudgery, and humiliation

Ø  Southern education lagged behind northern education because

      Southerners were indifferent to public schools

Ø  Which is the most valid statement describing the Republican party position in the election of 1860?

      There should be no further extension of slavery into the territories

Ø  What did the South gain from the Compromise of 1850?

      stronger fugitive slave law

Ø  Why could it be said that the north was ,"never the same after the publication of, Uncle Tom's Cabin"

      The book and the dramatizations based on it reached millions of people and convinced many waverers that slavery was wrong

Ø  After the burning of Lawrence, Kansas, John Brown

      went crazy and led a group in the killing of proslavery settlers

Ø  The issues behind the Compromise of 1850 included all of the following

      slavery in the New Mexico and Arizona territories

      a Fugitive Slave Law

      the banning of the slave trade in the District of Columbia

      California becoming a free state

Ø  What shaped relations in the Old South?

      a complex code of honor

Ø  Which of the following was a crop associated with the Lower South?

      tobacco

      rice

      indigo

      cotton

Ø  Factories developed slowly in the South because most of their capital was tied up in slaves.

Ø  Most marriages in the south were rarely outside one's own social class.

Ø  In the Election of 1860, 4 candidates received electoral votes.

Ø  Which pair of Supreme Court cases dealt with federal Indian land policy

      Cherokee Nation v Georgia and Worchester v Georgia

Ø  A description of life for a slave would include all

      frequent beatings

      being sold

      drafty crude built cabins

Ø  Slaves used many ways to escape

      following the Underground Railroad

      taking ships that headed north

      being shipped in a box on a railroad

Ø  The first people that helped along the Underground Railroad were the

      Quakers

Ø  Compared to slaves in the Upper South, slaves sold to the Lower South( down river) rarely escaped to the North.

Ø  To the South the Wilmot Proviso showed that;

      the North was determined to use Congress to prevent the growth of slavery

Ø  The decision in the Dred Scott case:

      said that blacks had no rights that white people did because they were property

Ø  The Lecompton Convention:

      only 10% of the states voting population was represented, making it difficult for the President Buchanan to accept it under popular sovereignty

Ø  One of the results of the Fugitive Slave Law was:

      personal liberty laws were passed in many northern states

Ø  During the Lincoln/Douglas debates, Lincoln was portrayed as favoring:

      social equality

Ø  In Uncle Tom's Cabin, the selling of Tom represents:

      that slave owners capital was in slaves

Ø  Two events that sent John Brown into a violent rage against slave owners where

      the burning of Lawrence, Kansas and the beating of Senator Summer

Ø  At Harper's Ferry, John Brown:

      attempted to seize the arsenal, to get guns for a slave rebellion

Ø  One of the results of Nat Turner's rebellion was:

      restrictions on the movement of slaves

Ø  The view of many people in the North of the hanging of John Brown was that:

      he was a martyr for the cause of abolition

Ø  The view of many in the south about John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

      it proved that the northern abolitionists wanted slave owners killed

Ø  The Free Soil Party advocated which of the following?

      slavery should not be allowed in the new territories

Ø  Which of the following does accurately describe the Missouri Compromise of 1820

      it allowed Missouri to be admitted as a slave state

      it created the free state of Maine from territory that belonged to Massachusetts

      to maintain the equal representation in the Senate between free and slave states

      it included a northern border in the Louisiana Territory above which was prohibited