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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A stealing food and other goods.
B sabotage of plantation equipment.
C armed insurrection.
D feigned laziness.
E running away.
Question #2
A frequently supported abolitionism.
B were almost universally loved by their slaves.
C commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.
D had little contact with slaves.
E primarily controlled male slaves.
Question #3
A it repelled a large-scale European immigration.
B it stimulated racism among poor whites.
C it created an aristocratic political elite.
D its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers.
E it relied on a one-crop economy.
Question #4
A disliking the race but liking individual blacks.
B advocating black movement into the new territories.
C politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.
D supporting their right to full citizenship.
E disliking the individuals but liking the race.
Question #5
A the cost of education was far more than masters would want to spend on slaves.
B masters feared their slaves might become smarter than White owners.
C masters believed that reading brought new ideas that might lead to their discontent.
D their labor did not require literacy or math skills.
E it would take time away from their work in the fields and households of white masters.
Question #6
A in the decade before the Civil War.
B in the Deep South.
C on the large plantations.
D on small plantations and in the upper South.
E as a punishment for running away.
Question #7
A Nat Tumer
B Henry Clay
C Andrew Jackson
D John Quincy Adams
Question #8
A cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840.
B quick profits from cotton drew planters to its economic enterprise.
C the South produced more than half the entire world’s supply of cotton.
D the South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade.
E 75 percent of the British supply of cotton came from the South.
Question #9
A border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland
B new Southwest states of Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory.
C mountain regions of Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
D old South states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
E Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Question #10
A they claimed slavery was supported by the Bible.
B Slaveholders claimed that master-slave relationships resembled a family.
C slaveholders said slavery lifted Africans from the barbarism of the jungle and gave them Christian civilization.
D they said that slaves toiled under better working conditions than factory workers and hired hands in the North.
E they claimed that slaves were set free once they reached old age.