Chapter 9 Test The Inland South

A  Glaxo Smith Kline

B  IBM

C  Cisco Systems

D  Nortel Networks

E  All these answer choices are located in the Research Triangle

A  Scotch-Irish settlers in Appalachia

B  Cajun settlers in Louisiana

C  Spanish settlers in West Texas

D  Africans brought over as slaves

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

B  The leveling of small hills to produce more farmland.

C  Industrialization resulting in the silting of rivers.

D  The rerouting and damming 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  Less than 1 percent of Southerners owned more than 100 slaves

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

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

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

B  Stagnated

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

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

A  The most common form of cotton in the American South was the so-called ‘sea-island’ cotton

B  The Cotton Belt extended from southern Virginia west into eastern Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Textile

B  Furniture

C  Agriculture

D  Meatpacking

E  Forestry

A  Peninsular Florida

B  Oklahoma

C  Tennessee

D  The Appalachian Mountains

A  20 years ago

B  50 years ago

C  100 years ago

D  5 years ago

A  Harvard University

B  Duke University

C  Columbia University

D  Stanford University

E  Brown University

A  Georgia

B  Mississippi

C  Kentucky

D  Tennessee

E  Alabama

A  Remained steady

B  Become unprofitable

C  Grown

D  Decreased

A  Sugar Cane

B  Moonshine

C  Prostitutes

D  Narcotics

E  Cigarettes

A  Iowa

B  Florida

C  Alabama

D  Louisiana

E  Texas

A  Tornados

B  Flash flooding

C  Lightning and Hail

D  Forest Fires

A  World War I

B  The Civil War

C  The Cold War

D  The Trail of Tears

E  The American Revolutionary War

A  In the northern Appalachians

B  In the Ozarks

C  In the southern Appalachians

D  In the Ouachitas

A  Serpent Mound

B  The Black Hills

C  Yellowstone

D  Great Smokey Mountains

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

B  Many tribes were forced to relocate to this region.

C  Oklahoma had better laws protecting Native Americans.

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

A  Corn

B  Cotton

C  Tobacco

D  Peaches

A  To create more space for the textile industry

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 research the effects of lung cancer

A  The mountainous areas

B  The Ozarks

C  The Coastal South

D  The lowlands

A  Sharecropping

B  Slavery

C  “Jim Crow”

D  Communal Farms

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

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  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 nearly 1 million slaves were transported westward by the cotton migration

A  Automobile manufacturing and paper mills.

B  High technology and healthcare.

C  The military and tourism.

D  Paper mills and high technology.

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

B  It is more environmentally damaging 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  No, the thin, nutrient poor soils are not suitable for growing forests.

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

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

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

A  Georgia

B  Tennessee

C  Kentucky

D  Virginia

A  The Great Migration

B  The Final Solution

C  The Gettysburg Accord

D  The Trail of Tears

A  Cotton

B  Oranges

C  Tobacco

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 Corn Belt and Great Lakes

B  The Inland South

C  The Great Plains

D  The Coastal South

A  The Jackson Plan

B  The Great Indian Removal

C  The Trail of Tears

D  The Final Solution

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

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

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

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