Chapter 9 Test The Inland South

A  All these answer choices are located in the Research Triangle

B  Nortel Networks

C  Glaxo Smith Kline

D  Cisco Systems

E  IBM

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 leveling of small hills to produce more farmland.

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

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

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

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

B  Grown more rapidly than 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 expansion of cotton cultivation depended on, among other things, labor availability and a system of global trade

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

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

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

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  Meatpacking

B  Textile

C  Agriculture

D  Furniture

E  Forestry

A  Oklahoma

B  The Appalachian Mountains

C  Tennessee

D  Peninsular Florida

A  50 years ago

B  100 years ago

C  5 years ago

D  20 years ago

A  Columbia University

B  Duke University

C  Harvard University

D  Stanford University

E  Brown University

A  Georgia

B  Mississippi

C  Tennessee

D  Kentucky

E  Alabama

A  Remained steady

B  Grown

C  Decreased

D  Become unprofitable

A  Prostitutes

B  Moonshine

C  Narcotics

D  Sugar Cane

E  Cigarettes

A  Florida

B  Iowa

C  Texas

D  Louisiana

E  Alabama

A  Forest Fires

B  Lightning and Hail

C  Tornados

D  Flash flooding

A  The Trail of Tears

B  The American Revolutionary War

C  World War I

D  The Cold War

E  The Civil War

A  In the southern Appalachians

B  In the Ozarks

C  In the Ouachitas

D  In the northern Appalachians

A  Serpent Mound

B  Yellowstone

C  The Black Hills

D  Great Smokey Mountains

A  Oklahoma had better laws protecting Native Americans.

B  Many tribes were forced to relocate to this region.

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  Tobacco

C  Peaches

D  Cotton

A  To research the effects of lung cancer

B  To create more space for the textile industry

C  To attract modern industries to North Carolina

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

E  To fund government reconstruction projects

A  The Ozarks

B  The mountainous areas

C  The lowlands

D  The Coastal South

A  “Jim Crow”

B  Slavery

C  Sharecropping

D  Communal Farms

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

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

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

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

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 dangerous for workers than underground mining.

C  It is more expensive and time consuming 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  No, the many pests prevalent in the south have prevented many trees from prospering.

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.

A  Georgia

B  Tennessee

C  Kentucky

D  Virginia

A  The Final Solution

B  The Trail of Tears

C  The Gettysburg Accord

D  The Great Migration

A  Onions

B  Cotton

C  Tobacco

D  Oranges

A  The Tennessee National Guard

B  The Tennessee Valley Authority

C  The Rural Electrification Administration

D  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A  The Great Plains

B  The Corn Belt and Great Lakes

C  The Coastal South

D  The Inland South

A  The Final Solution

B  The Great Indian Removal

C  The Jackson Plan

D  The Trail of Tears

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

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

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

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