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