Chapter 9 Test The Inland South

A  Nortel Networks

B  Cisco Systems

C  IBM

D  Glaxo Smith Kline

E  All these answer choices are located in the Research Triangle

A  Spanish settlers in West Texas

B  Cajun settlers in Louisiana

C  Africans brought over as slaves

D  Scotch-Irish settlers in Appalachia

A  The leveling of small hills to produce more farmland.

B  Industrialization resulting in the silting of rivers.

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

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  Less than 1 percent of Southerners owned more than 100 slaves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  Forestry

B  Textile

C  Agriculture

D  Meatpacking

E  Furniture

A  Oklahoma

B  Peninsular Florida

C  The Appalachian Mountains

D  Tennessee

A  100 years ago

B  50 years ago

C  5 years ago

D  20 years ago

A  Brown University

B  Stanford University

C  Duke University

D  Harvard University

E  Columbia University

A  Georgia

B  Alabama

C  Tennessee

D  Mississippi

E  Kentucky

A  Decreased

B  Remained steady

C  Grown

D  Become unprofitable

A  Prostitutes

B  Sugar Cane

C  Narcotics

D  Cigarettes

E  Moonshine

A  Florida

B  Louisiana

C  Iowa

D  Texas

E  Alabama

A  Lightning and Hail

B  Tornados

C  Flash flooding

D  Forest Fires

A  World War I

B  The Civil War

C  The Trail of Tears

D  The Cold War

E  The American Revolutionary War

A  In the Ozarks

B  In the northern Appalachians

C  In the Ouachitas

D  In the southern Appalachians

A  The Black Hills

B  Great Smokey Mountains

C  Serpent Mound

D  Yellowstone

A  Oklahoma had better laws protecting Native Americans.

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

C  Many tribes were forced to relocate to this region.

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

A  Cotton

B  Peaches

C  Tobacco

D  Corn

A  To fund government reconstruction projects

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 research the effects of lung cancer

A  The Ozarks

B  The mountainous areas

C  The lowlands

D  The Coastal South

A  Communal Farms

B  Sharecropping

C  Slavery

D  “Jim Crow”

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

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

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

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

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  The military and tourism.

B  Paper mills and high technology.

C  High technology and healthcare.

D  Automobile manufacturing and paper mills.

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

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

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

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

A  Virginia

B  Kentucky

C  Georgia

D  Tennessee

A  The Great Migration

B  The Trail of Tears

C  The Gettysburg Accord

D  The Final Solution

A  Tobacco

B  Oranges

C  Cotton

D  Onions

A  The Tennessee Valley Authority

B  The Tennessee National Guard

C  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

D  The Rural Electrification Administration

A  The Corn Belt and Great Lakes

B  The Great Plains

C  The Coastal South

D  The Inland South

A  The Great Indian Removal

B  The Jackson Plan

C  The Final Solution

D  The Trail of Tears

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

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

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

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