Chapter 9 Test The Inland South

A  Glaxo Smith Kline

B  All these answer choices are located in the Research Triangle

C  Nortel Networks

D  Cisco Systems

E  IBM

A  Africans brought over as slaves

B  Scotch-Irish settlers in Appalachia

C  Cajun settlers in Louisiana

D  Spanish settlers in West Texas

A  Industrialization resulting in the silting of rivers.

B  The rerouting and damming of rivers

C  The leveling of small hills to produce more farmland.

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

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

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

C  Grown more slowly than 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 Cotton Belt extended from southern Virginia west into eastern Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Agriculture

B  Meatpacking

C  Forestry

D  Textile

E  Furniture

A  Tennessee

B  Oklahoma

C  The Appalachian Mountains

D  Peninsular Florida

A  20 years ago

B  50 years ago

C  100 years ago

D  5 years ago

A  Stanford University

B  Brown University

C  Duke University

D  Columbia University

E  Harvard University

A  Mississippi

B  Georgia

C  Tennessee

D  Alabama

E  Kentucky

A  Remained steady

B  Become unprofitable

C  Decreased

D  Grown

A  Narcotics

B  Sugar Cane

C  Cigarettes

D  Prostitutes

E  Moonshine

A  Louisiana

B  Iowa

C  Alabama

D  Florida

E  Texas

A  Flash flooding

B  Lightning and Hail

C  Tornados

D  Forest Fires

A  The Cold War

B  World War I

C  The Trail of Tears

D  The Civil War

E  The American Revolutionary War

A  In the Ozarks

B  In the Ouachitas

C  In the northern Appalachians

D  In the southern Appalachians

A  The Black Hills

B  Yellowstone

C  Great Smokey Mountains

D  Serpent Mound

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

D  Oklahoma had better laws protecting Native Americans.

A  Cotton

B  Corn

C  Tobacco

D  Peaches

A  To fund government reconstruction projects

B  To research the effects of lung cancer

C  To create more space for the textile industry

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

E  To attract modern industries to North Carolina

A  The lowlands

B  The Ozarks

C  The mountainous areas

D  The Coastal South

A  Sharecropping

B  “Jim Crow”

C  Slavery

D  Communal Farms

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

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 the center of cotton production shifted from South Carolina to Mississippi

E  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

A  High technology and healthcare.

B  The military and tourism.

C  Paper mills and high technology.

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  Georgia

B  Tennessee

C  Kentucky

D  Virginia

A  The Great Migration

B  The Final Solution

C  The Trail of Tears

D  The Gettysburg Accord

A  Onions

B  Tobacco

C  Oranges

D  Cotton

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 Great Plains

B  The Coastal South

C  The Corn Belt and Great Lakes

D  The Inland South

A  The Great Indian Removal

B  The Final Solution

C  The Trail of Tears

D  The Jackson Plan

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

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

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

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