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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A sabotage of plantation equipment.
B running away.
C armed insurrection.
D stealing food and other goods.
E feigned laziness.
Question #2
A were almost universally loved by their slaves.
B commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.
C had little contact with slaves.
D frequently supported abolitionism.
E primarily controlled male slaves.
Question #3
A it repelled a large-scale European immigration.
B it relied on a one-crop economy.
C it stimulated racism among poor whites.
D its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers.
E it created an aristocratic political elite.
Question #4
A disliking the individuals but liking the race.
B supporting their right to full citizenship.
C advocating black movement into the new territories.
D politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.
E disliking the race but liking individual blacks.
Question #5
A masters feared their slaves might become smarter than White owners.
B their labor did not require literacy or math skills.
C it would take time away from their work in the fields and households of white masters.
D the cost of education was far more than masters would want to spend on slaves.
E masters believed that reading brought new ideas that might lead to their discontent.
Question #6
A in the decade before the Civil War.
B on small plantations and in the upper South.
C on the large plantations.
D in the Deep South.
E as a punishment for running away.
Question #7
A Nat Tumer
B Henry Clay
C Andrew Jackson
D John Quincy Adams
Question #8
A 75 percent of the British supply of cotton came from the South.
B the South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade.
C cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840.
D the South produced more than half the entire world’s supply of cotton.
E quick profits from cotton drew planters to its economic enterprise.
Question #9
A old South states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
B border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland
C Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
D new Southwest states of Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory.
E mountain regions of Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
Question #10
A they said that slaves toiled under better working conditions than factory workers and hired hands in the North.
B they claimed slavery was supported by the Bible.
C slaveholders said slavery lifted Africans from the barbarism of the jungle and gave them Christian civilization.
D Slaveholders claimed that master-slave relationships resembled a family.
E they claimed that slaves were set free once they reached old age.