Chapter 9 Test The Inland South

A  All these answer choices are located in the Research Triangle

B  IBM

C  Nortel Networks

D  Cisco Systems

E  Glaxo Smith Kline

A  Cajun settlers in Louisiana

B  Africans brought over as slaves

C  Scotch-Irish settlers in Appalachia

D  Spanish settlers in West Texas

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

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  Less than 1 percent of Southerners owned more than 100 slaves

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

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

A  Stagnated

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Forestry

B  Meatpacking

C  Furniture

D  Textile

E  Agriculture

A  Oklahoma

B  Tennessee

C  Peninsular Florida

D  The Appalachian Mountains

A  100 years ago

B  20 years ago

C  50 years ago

D  5 years ago

A  Duke University

B  Columbia University

C  Stanford University

D  Brown University

E  Harvard University

A  Mississippi

B  Tennessee

C  Alabama

D  Georgia

E  Kentucky

A  Grown

B  Decreased

C  Become unprofitable

D  Remained steady

A  Narcotics

B  Sugar Cane

C  Prostitutes

D  Moonshine

E  Cigarettes

A  Alabama

B  Iowa

C  Louisiana

D  Florida

E  Texas

A  Forest Fires

B  Lightning and Hail

C  Flash flooding

D  Tornados

A  The American Revolutionary War

B  The Civil War

C  The Cold War

D  World War I

E  The Trail of Tears

A  In the Ouachitas

B  In the northern Appalachians

C  In the southern Appalachians

D  In the Ozarks

A  Great Smokey Mountains

B  The Black Hills

C  Yellowstone

D  Serpent Mound

A  Many tribes were forced to relocate to this region.

B  Oklahoma had better laws protecting Native Americans.

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

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

A  Corn

B  Peaches

C  Tobacco

D  Cotton

A  To create more space for the textile industry

B  To attract modern industries to North Carolina

C  To research the effects of lung cancer

D  To fund government reconstruction projects

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

A  The mountainous areas

B  The lowlands

C  The Ozarks

D  The Coastal South

A  “Jim Crow”

B  Slavery

C  Sharecropping

D  Communal Farms

A  By 1860, a little over 10 percent of all Blacks in the United States were free

B  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

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

D  Between 1830 and 1860 nearly 1 million slaves were transported westward by the cotton migration

E  Between 1820 and 1860, the proportion of free American Blacks actually decreased

A  Paper mills and high technology.

B  The military and tourism.

C  Automobile manufacturing and paper mills.

D  High technology and healthcare.

A  It is more dangerous for workers than underground mining.

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

C  It is more environmentally damaging than underground mining.

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

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

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

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

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

A  Virginia

B  Tennessee

C  Kentucky

D  Georgia

A  The Gettysburg Accord

B  The Trail of Tears

C  The Great Migration

D  The Final Solution

A  Tobacco

B  Cotton

C  Oranges

D  Onions

A  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

B  The Tennessee Valley Authority

C  The Rural Electrification Administration

D  The Tennessee National Guard

A  The Inland South

B  The Great Plains

C  The Coastal South

D  The Corn Belt and Great Lakes

A  The Great Indian Removal

B  The Trail of Tears

C  The Jackson Plan

D  The Final Solution

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

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

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

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