Deck 12: A Regionalized America, 1830-1860

Question 1

By 1860, New Orleans was by far America's largest city.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The South depended on the high tariffs of the American System to protect its growing manufacturing concerns.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The communications and transportation revolutions that were associated with the Industrial Revolution sewed together the vast stretch of lands in the northern United States.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin .

Question 5

A slavedriver was a supervisor or overseer of slave labor, usually employed on a cotton plantation.

Question 6

Yeoman farmers were deeply involved in the Market Revolution.

Question 7

How did many Americans respond to the arrival of immigrants between 1830 and 1860?

A)They formulated a racial identity that differentiated the various immigrant groups.
B)They welcomed immigrants from Germany and Ireland.
C)They let the immigrants work in any profession they wanted.
D)They embraced the German tradition of gathering at beer gardens on Sundays.
E)They helped the Irish propagate Catholicism.

Question 8

Public education became more visibly influenced by Catholicism in the 1840s and 1850s, prompting many American Protestants to establish alternative parochial schools.

Question 9

Identify a true statement about the immigrants who came to the United States between 1830 and 1860.

A)One-third of them were from Nigeria and Kenya.
B)They were descendants of the American Revolution.
C)They settled largely but not entirely in the North.
D)Nearly two-thirds of them were from France and Austria.
E)They conformed to the established definition of what it meant to be an American.

Question 10

Even though there were official limits on the treatment of slaves, they were unenforceable because slaves were prohibited from taking their masters to court.

Question 11

In 1855, some of the new immigrants to the United States largely avoided the South because of its:

A)lack of agricultural land.
B)dependence on slave labor.
C)large Yankee population.
D)anti-Catholic tendencies.
E)limited reliance on agriculture.

Question 12

Nearly two-thirds of the people who immigrated to the United States between 1830 and 1860 came from _____.

A)France
B)China and Japan
C)Ireland and Germany
D)Belgium
E)Austria and Norway

Question 13

The 48ers were:

A)descendants of Spanish explorers.
B)Irishmen who came to the United States to escape the potato famine.
C)Bostonians who instigated the Boston Tea Party.
D)descendants of the Native Americans who lived in Gnadenhutten.
E)Germans who came to the United States in 1848.

Question 14

Identify an accurate statement about nativism.

A)It proclaimed the inferiority of native Americans.
B)It proclaimed that immigrants should be allowed to live wherever they wanted to.
C)It moved into the social and economic life of America.
D)It advocated the freedom of slaves.
E)It failed to move into politics.

Question 15

_____ placed restrictions on what fields of business the new immigrants could enter, where they could live, and where they could find work.

A)Empiricists
B)Constructivists
C)Irishmen
D)Germans
E)Nativists

Question 16

Gone with the Wind provided a generally accurate picture of the antebellum South.

Question 17

In the North, the press was heavily partisan because it:

A)was influenced by the Second Great Awakening.
B)was influenced by the American Enlightenment.
C)was usually financed by political parties.
D)needed to make large profits.
E)objected to internal improvements in the North.

Question 18

Which of the following statements is true of communal values in the northern countryside between 1830 and 1860?

A)Farm families stopped going to church.
B)Politics was an unfavorable topic for discussion.
C)Social networks were strong.
D)Most farm families in western Pennsylvania were exclusively producers.
E)Most farm families in the "Old Northwest" of Illinois were exclusively consumers.

Question 19

Which of the following dramatically altered life in the northern United States in the three decades before the Civil War?

A)The Market Revolution
B)The Industrial Revolution
C)Ruralization
D)Prohibition
E)The Great Awakening

Question 20

Nativism moved into politics and into the social and economic life of America.

Question 21

Unlike American slaveholders, Caribbean slaveholders:

A)worked their slaves to death.
B)were unable to import new slaves.
C)treated their slaves humanely.
D)recognized that healthy slaves were more likely to produce healthy offspring.
E)understood that healthy laborers were more productive than those who were abused.

Question 22

Popular images of the antebellum South as portrayed in media productions like Gone with the Wind are misleading because:

A)only a handful of southerners were isolated yeoman farmers.
B)white southerners embraced the concept of "free labor."
C)most white southerners owned slaves.
D)most slave owners had only a few slaves.
E)only a few slaves lived on plantations.

Question 23

Which of the following is a true statement about southern planters?

A)They typically educated their children in their own homes.
B)They fought to make their society more democratic.
C)They showed a minimal interest in politics.
D)They became deeply involved in international markets.
E)They funded public education through taxation.

Question 24

The antislavery newspaper The Liberator was published by _____.

A)David Walker
B)William Lloyd Garrison
C)Harriet Tubman
D)Harriet Beecher Stowe
E)Richard Allen

Question 25

Which of the following was NOT a legislative response to Turner's insurrection?

A)The deporting of slaves to Africa
B)The prohibition of slave literacy
C)The supervision of slave meetings by whites
D)The restriction of black freedom
E)The monitoring of slave behavior

Question 26

Which of the following statements does NOT provide an accurate description of the antebellum South?

A)The majority of white southerners were yeoman farmers.
B)Most white southerners did not own slaves.
C)The South attracted immigrants in the same numbers as the North.
D)The South's cotton exports constituted nearly half of the exports of the entire nation.
E)Most slaves lived on plantations.

Question 27

Public education became more visibly influenced by _____ in the 1840s and 1850s.

A)Protestantism
B)Unitarianism
C)Mormonism
D)Judaism
E)Catholicism

Question 28

During the antebellum period, _____ became the main profession open to middle-class women.

A)stenographing
B)shopkeeping
C)accounting
D)nursing
E)teaching

Question 29

Which of the following is a true statement about minstrel shows?

A)They were the least popular form of entertainment.
B)They uplifted the morale of African Americans.
C)They ridiculed white supremacists.
D)They made fun of the North for its backward ways.
E)They ran concurrently with Shakespeare's plays.

Question 30

The best-selling book of the 1850s was _____.

A)The Confessions of Nat Turner
B)Gone with the Wind
C)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
D)A Scarlet Letter
E)Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 31

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about free blacks in antebellum America?

A)They established the African Methodist Episcopal (AME)Church.
B)They promoted temperance and abolition.
C)They referred to themselves as "Colored Americans."
D)They established Prince Hall.
E)They favored gradual emancipation.

Question 32

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about leisure in the antebellum North?

A)Boxing and horse racing attracted large crowds.
B)Baseball evolved into a professional sport.
C)Theaters featured plays by Shakespeare.
D)People gathered in taverns.
E)Theater entry was restricted to men.

Question 33

_____ featured white men smeared with burnt cork (to make them look black)who lampooned slave life in the South.

A)Tenement houses
B)Hoovervilles
C)Turnvereins
D)Minstrel shows
E)Shakespeare's plays

Question 34

Identify a true statement about southern yeoman farmers.

A)They were largely involved in national and international markets.
B)They lived with their families on large plantations.
C)They used most of their land to plant cotton.
D)They were usually educated in public schools.
E)They were deeply involved in the Market Revolution.

Question 35

How did white Virginians respond to Nat Turner's insurrection?

A)They freed around 100 slaves involved in the insurrection.
B)They indiscriminately killed more than 200 slaves.
C)They lent their support to the antislavery movement.
D)They captured and deported the offending slaves.
E)They acquiesced to the slaves' demands for emancipation.

Question 36

According to Thomas R. Dew and George Fitzhugh, slavery was:

A)a necessary evil.
B)disadvantageous to southern blacks.
C)a positive good.
D)an inhumane practice.
E)disadvantageous to whites.

Question 37

Identify a true statement about William Lloyd Garrison.

A)He used The Liberator to advocate for temperance.
B)He publicly burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution.
C)He favored gradual emancipation.
D)He prevented The Liberator from being published.
E)He fought with white abolitionists who advocated immediate emancipation.

Question 38

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the German immigrants who arrived in the United States?

A)They routinely referred to themselves by the town or county from which they came.
B)They developed distinct communities.
C)They settled in various neighborhoods without restrictions.
D)They embraced cultural forms harking back to the homeland.
E)They formed turnvereins in the spirit of the German liberation movement.

Question 39

Which of the following is a true statement about slave society in the antebellum years?

A)Slave families were protected by the law.
B)Slaves were allowed to take their masters to court.
C)Slaveholders were forced by law to treat their slaves benevolently.
D)Slaves were treated humanely in the antebellum South.
E)Slave reproduction mattered to plantation owners.

Question 40

Congress adopted a "gag rule" in 1836 to:

A)legally table discussions about abolition.
B)prevent southerners from seeking federal compensation for runaway slaves.
C)ban protests by free laborers who were opposed to slavery.
D)stop Georgia from offering a bounty for the capture of William Lloyd Garrison.
E)prevent immigrants from entering the country.

Question 41

The _____ served as an obvious cause for the North and the South to develop divergent societies.

A)Grand Exchange
B)Industrial Revolution
C)Market Revolution
D)American Enlightenment
E)Columbian Exchange

Question 42

One slave who successfully escaped bondage, settled in the North, and wrote an autobiography was _____.

A)Fredrick Douglass
B)Harriet Tubman
C)William Lloyd Garrison
D)Nat Turner
E)Catharine Beecher

Question 43

Identify a true statement about the slave community.

A)Slave marriages were legally recognized.
B)Slave masters were forbidden from separating parents from their children.
C)Slaves maintained traditional nuclear families whenever possible.
D)Maintaining a two-parent family was well within the control of the slaves.
E)Premarital sex was uncommon in slave quarters.

Question 44

_________ was a political identity that defined an American as someone with an English background who was born in the United States.
A. Communism
B. Nativism
C. Transcendentalism
D. Democratism

Question 45

Which of the following is a state in the Deep South?

A)Florida
B)Mississippi
C)Illinois
D)Indiana
E)Arkansas

Question 46

Discuss the sentiment of anti-Catholicism in America in the 1800s.

Question 47

Elaborate on the social class distinctions in antebellum America.

Question 48

It was difficult for runaways to leave the Deep South because southerners:

A)placed guards around the periphery of slave quarters.
B)used hunting dogs to track escaped slaves.
C)used sources in the Underground Railroad to catch escaped slaves.
D)employed slavedrivers along state borders to catch runaways.
E)used the Underground Railroad to organize slave patrols.

Question 49

The Underground Railroad was:

A)a series of tunnels that ran North through South to help slaves escape.
B)constructed to track escaped slaves and organize slave patrols.
C)made up of abolitionist groups that printed secret newspapers to get the worst impact of slavery out to the public.
D)a series of caves throughout western Kentucky and West Virginia that could house runaway slaves indefinitely.
E)a network of people who were opposed to slavery, sheltered runaway slaves, and expedited their journey to freedom.

Question 50

Explain nativism and describe its impact on the immigrant population between 1830 and 1860.

Question 51

Which of the following is a true statement about the gang system?

A)It assigned each slave a specific set of tasks that had to be completed each day.
B)Under this system, slaves were organized into groups of five.
C)It was most commonly used in coffee cultivation.
D)Most masters, in keeping with their Christian beliefs, gave their slaves Sundays off.
E)It was banned in the South.

Question 52

Which of the following was the most significant form of African American music that developed during the Second Great Awakening?

A)Blues
B)Spirituals
C)Bluegrass
D)Kaiso
E)Jazz

Question 53

Discuss the communal values of people living in the northern countryside.

Question 54

At the center of slave culture was _____.

A)family
B)Antinomianism
C)literacy
D)spirituality
E)craftsmanship

Question 55

Identify a true statement about the task system.

A)It was most common on cotton plantations.
B)Slaveholders frequently set unrealistic expectations for slaves.
C)It often gave slaves less freedom than the gang system did.
D)Even after slaves accomplished their tasks, their time was not their own.
E)Under this system, masters organized slaves into groups of twenty to twenty-five workers.

Question 56

The most important crop in the antebellum South was _________.
A. sugarcane
B. rice
C. cotton
D. tobacco

Question 57

_________ were gymnasiums founded in the spirit of the German liberation movement that erupted in 1848.
A. Tenement houses
B. Tuskegee institutes
C. Turnvereins
D. Kunstvereins

Question 58

Discuss the role of women in middle-class families.

Question 59

The _________ was a work arrangement under which slaves were organized into groups of twenty to twenty-five workers, supervised by an overseer.
A. task system
B. gag rule system
C. gang system
D. free labor system

Question 60

The gang system was a method of organizing labor most commonly used on _________ plantations.
A. tobacco
B. cotton
C. millet
D. rice

Question 61

Explain the role of William Lloyd Garrison in the abolitionist movement.

Question 62

Why are portrayals of the antebellum South in productions like Gone with the Wind misleading?

Question 63

Describe the effects of the Second Great Awakening on slaves.

Question 64

Discuss the resistance that abolitionism faced in the South and the North.

Question 65

Elaborate on the slave society in the South.

Question 66

Discuss the characteristics of yeoman farmers.

Question 67

Discuss the role of Nat Turner in the slave revolt of 1831.

Question 68

Describe the life of the planters in the South.

Question 69

Explain the organization of plantation labor.

Question 70

Briefly explain "free labor" in the North.