Chapter 9 Test The Inland South

A  IBM

B  Nortel Networks

C  Cisco Systems

D  All these answer choices are located in the Research Triangle

E  Glaxo Smith Kline

A  Scotch-Irish settlers in Appalachia

B  Spanish settlers in West Texas

C  Africans brought over as slaves

D  Cajun settlers in Louisiana

A  The removal of trees and vegetation due to logging and mining.

B  The rerouting and damming of rivers

C  The leveling of small hills to produce more farmland.

D  Industrialization resulting in the silting of rivers.

A  One of the obstacles to abolishing slavery was the fact that the U.S. Constitution did not directly address the issue of slavery

B  In 1860, over 75 percent of all Southerners owned at least one slave

C  Slaves were expected to pick up to 150 pounds of cotton a day

D  Less than 1 percent of Southerners owned more than 100 slaves

E  Slavery was tolerated because Blacks were thought to scientifically inferior to whites

A  Grown more rapidly than the rest of the U.S

B  Grown more slowly than the rest of the U.S

C  Grown at about the same rate as the rest of the U.S

D  Stagnated

A  Kentucky was the only state in the American South to have no cotton cultivation

B  The expansion of cotton cultivation depended on, among other things, labor availability and a system of global trade

C  In 1860, an independent American South would have been one of the world’s wealthiest nations

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

A  The scenery would be hilly in both eastern and western Arkansas with little change.

B  The scenery would be flat in both eastern and western Arkansas with little change.

C  You would be travelling from the lowlands of eastern Arkansas into hilly western Arkansas.

D  You would be travelling from hilly eastern Arkansas into the lowlands of western Arkansas.

A  Textile

B  Furniture

C  Forestry

D  Meatpacking

E  Agriculture

A  Oklahoma

B  The Appalachian Mountains

C  Peninsular Florida

D  Tennessee

A  100 years ago

B  5 years ago

C  20 years ago

D  50 years ago

A  Duke University

B  Columbia University

C  Brown University

D  Stanford University

E  Harvard University

A  Mississippi

B  Georgia

C  Kentucky

D  Alabama

E  Tennessee

A  Grown

B  Decreased

C  Remained steady

D  Become unprofitable

A  Cigarettes

B  Sugar Cane

C  Narcotics

D  Prostitutes

E  Moonshine

A  Florida

B  Louisiana

C  Texas

D  Alabama

E  Iowa

A  Forest Fires

B  Tornados

C  Flash flooding

D  Lightning and Hail

A  The Trail of Tears

B  The American Revolutionary War

C  The Cold War

D  World War I

E  The Civil War

A  In the Ozarks

B  In the northern Appalachians

C  In the southern Appalachians

D  In the Ouachitas

A  Great Smokey Mountains

B  Serpent Mound

C  Yellowstone

D  The Black Hills

A  Oklahoma had better laws protecting Native Americans.

B  Many tribes were forced to relocate to this region.

C  Many regions in Oklahoma were spiritual centers for Native American tribes.

D  Eastern Oklahoma had the most modern schools, as well as plentiful jobs for Native Americans.

A  Peaches

B  Cotton

C  Corn

D  Tobacco

A  To research the effects of lung cancer

B  To attract modern industries to North Carolina

C  To generate more revenue for NASCAR tracks and race car technology

D  To create more space for the textile industry

E  To fund government reconstruction projects

A  The lowlands

B  The mountainous areas

C  The Coastal South

D  The Ozarks

A  Slavery

B  Sharecropping

C  Communal Farms

D  “Jim Crow”

A  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

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 nearly 1 million slaves were transported westward by the cotton migration

E  Between 1830 and 1860 the center of cotton production shifted from South Carolina to Mississippi

A  High technology and healthcare.

B  Paper mills and high technology.

C  The military and tourism.

D  Automobile manufacturing and paper mills.

A  It is more environmentally damaging than underground mining.

B  It is more expensive and time consuming than underground mining.

C  It is more dangerous for workers than underground mining.

D  It destroys the scenic value, and harms the tourism industry.

A  Yes, the warm, moist climate allows trees to grow quickly.

B  In the past, yes, but in recent decades forests have been overharvested, leading to a downturn in the industry.

C  No, the many pests prevalent in the south have prevented many trees from prospering.

D  No, the thin, nutrient poor soils are not suitable for growing forests.

A  Tennessee

B  Kentucky

C  Virginia

D  Georgia

A  The Gettysburg Accord

B  The Final Solution

C  The Trail of Tears

D  The Great Migration

A  Oranges

B  Tobacco

C  Onions

D  Cotton

A  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

B  The Tennessee National Guard

C  The Tennessee Valley Authority

D  The Rural Electrification Administration

A  The Corn Belt and Great Lakes

B  The Great Plains

C  The Coastal South

D  The Inland South

A  The Jackson Plan

B  The Trail of Tears

C  The Final Solution

D  The Great Indian Removal

A  The departure of many Hispanics from the region in the 1930s.

B  Increased population growth in the Inland South since the 1960s.

C  The end of the plantation system in the 1970s.

D  The return of many Native American tribes in the 1960s.