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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Nortel Networks
B Cisco Systems
C All these answer choices are located in the Research Triangle
D Glaxo Smith Kline
E IBM
Question #2
A Spanish settlers in West Texas
B Scotch-Irish settlers in Appalachia
C Cajun settlers in Louisiana
D Africans brought over as slaves
Question #3
A The removal of trees and vegetation due to logging and mining.
B Industrialization resulting in the silting of rivers.
C The rerouting and damming of rivers
D The leveling of small hills to produce more farmland.
Question #4
A Slavery was tolerated because Blacks were thought to scientifically inferior to whites
B One of the obstacles to abolishing slavery was the fact that the U.S. Constitution did not directly address the issue of slavery
C In 1860, over 75 percent of all Southerners owned at least one slave
D Less than 1 percent of Southerners owned more than 100 slaves
E Slaves were expected to pick up to 150 pounds of cotton a day
Question #5
A Grown more slowly than the rest of the U.S
B Stagnated
C Grown more rapidly than the rest of the U.S
D Grown at about the same rate as the rest of the U.S
Question #6
A Kentucky was the only state in the American South to have no cotton cultivation
B In 1860, an independent American South would have been one of the world’s wealthiest nations
C The expansion of cotton cultivation depended on, among other things, labor availability and a system of global trade
D The most common form of cotton in the American South was the so-called ‘sea-island’ cotton
E The Cotton Belt extended from southern Virginia west into eastern Texas
Question #7
A You would be travelling from the lowlands of eastern Arkansas into hilly western Arkansas.
B The scenery would be hilly in both eastern and western Arkansas with little change.
C You would be travelling from hilly eastern Arkansas into the lowlands of western Arkansas.
D The scenery would be flat in both eastern and western Arkansas with little change.
Question #8
A Agriculture
B Textile
C Forestry
D Meatpacking
E Furniture
Question #9
A The Appalachian Mountains
B Oklahoma
C Peninsular Florida
D Tennessee
Question #10
A 20 years ago
B 5 years ago
C 50 years ago
D 100 years ago
Question #11
A Columbia University
B Stanford University
C Duke University
D Harvard University
E Brown University
Question #12
A Georgia
B Kentucky
C Tennessee
D Mississippi
E Alabama
Question #13
A Decreased
B Remained steady
C Grown
D Become unprofitable
Question #14
A Narcotics
B Moonshine
C Sugar Cane
D Prostitutes
E Cigarettes
Question #15
A Alabama
B Louisiana
C Texas
D Iowa
E Florida
Question #16
A Forest Fires
B Flash flooding
C Lightning and Hail
D Tornados
Question #17
A World War I
B The Cold War
C The Civil War
D The Trail of Tears
E The American Revolutionary War
Question #18
A In the Ouachitas
B In the southern Appalachians
C In the Ozarks
D In the northern Appalachians
Question #19
A Yellowstone
B The Black Hills
C Serpent Mound
D Great Smokey Mountains
Question #20
A Many regions in Oklahoma were spiritual centers for Native American tribes.
B Oklahoma had better laws protecting Native Americans.
C Many tribes were forced to relocate to this region.
D Eastern Oklahoma had the most modern schools, as well as plentiful jobs for Native Americans.
Question #21
A Cotton
B Corn
C Tobacco
D Peaches
Question #22
A To research the effects of lung cancer
B To fund government reconstruction projects
C To generate more revenue for NASCAR tracks and race car technology
D To attract modern industries to North Carolina
E To create more space for the textile industry
Question #23
A The lowlands
B The mountainous areas
C The Coastal South
D The Ozarks
Question #24
A Sharecropping
B Communal Farms
C “Jim Crow”
D Slavery
Question #25
A Between 1830 and 1860 nearly 1 million slaves were transported westward by the cotton migration
B Between 1820 and 1860, the proportion of free American Blacks actually decreased
C By 1860, a little over 10 percent of all Blacks in the United States were free
D Between 1830 and 1860 the center of cotton production shifted from South Carolina to Mississippi
E Between 1830 and 1860 Southerners migrated towards the southwest to increase cotton cultivation in order to satisfy the demands of the rapidly growing American North
Question #26
A Paper mills and high technology.
B High technology and healthcare.
C The military and tourism.
D Automobile manufacturing and paper mills.
Question #27
A It is more environmentally damaging than underground mining.
B It is more dangerous for workers than underground mining.
C It is more expensive and time consuming than underground mining.
D It destroys the scenic value, and harms the tourism industry.
Question #28
A Yes, the warm, moist climate allows trees to grow quickly.
B No, the thin, nutrient poor soils are not suitable for growing forests.
C No, the many pests prevalent in the south have prevented many trees from prospering.
D In the past, yes, but in recent decades forests have been overharvested, leading to a downturn in the industry.
Question #29
A Tennessee
B Virginia
C Kentucky
D Georgia
Question #30
A The Final Solution
B The Great Migration
C The Trail of Tears
D The Gettysburg Accord
Question #31
A Oranges
B Tobacco
C Cotton
D Onions
Question #32
A The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
B The Tennessee National Guard
C The Rural Electrification Administration
D The Tennessee Valley Authority
Question #33
A The Coastal South
B The Corn Belt and Great Lakes
C The Great Plains
D The Inland South
Question #34
A The Great Indian Removal
B The Final Solution
C The Trail of Tears
D The Jackson Plan
Question #35
A Increased population growth in the Inland South since the 1960s.
B The end of the plantation system in the 1970s.
C The return of many Native American tribes in the 1960s.
D The departure of many Hispanics from the region in the 1930s.