HIS 2213 - AMERICAN HISTORY TEST 4 QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
Regarding slavery as an economic institution in the 1840s and 1850s, - Answers - the
price of slaves rose dramatically from 1820.
There was a tendency throughout the antebellum period for the ownership of slaves to
become more - Answers - concentrated.
An accurate assessment of Southern plantation life would be that - Answers -
plantations produced most of their own clothing and food.
The United States was the only place in the Western Hemisphere where the slave
population grew by - Answers - natural increase.
It is so difficult to generalize about the institution of slavery in the United States because
- Answers - the behavior of individual masters varied greatly.
In the 1830s, Nat Turner gained notoriety as the leader of the most sensational slave
uprising in - Answers - the early nineteenth century.
Southern slavery shaped Southern society and economy because - Answers - as a
result of slavery, the South had fewer cities and little industry.
Most of the industrial workers in the mid-nineteenth century lived in - Answers - the
crowded, squalid slums that sprang up in major cities.
The major paradox of American society before the Civil War was that - Answers - most
Americans continued to believe in egalitarian democracy, even though society was
becoming more stratified and the economic and social distances between the top and
bottom of society were growing.
Clipper ships were popular because - Answers - they provided fast oceanic
transportation.
An accurate description of the economic function of the Illinois Central railroad would be
that - Answers - the railroad channeled the agricultural output of the prairies into
Chicago.
On the eve of the Civil War, - Answers - railroads in the South were still scarce.
The invention of the mechanical reaper was so significant because - Answers - it
allowed farmers to bring in the harvest far more quickly.
, A result of the new fugitive slave law from the Compromise of 1850 was that - Answers -
many Northerners were outraged at the sight of people being forced to return to slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin because - Answers - the Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850 had roused her conscience and prompted her to turn to writing.
The Underground Railroad endangered slavery by its - Answers - explicit challenge to
the South.
Stephen Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 partly because -
Answers - of his plans for a transcontinental railroad.
Northern feelings seemed to reach a boiling point on the Fugitive Slave Law with the
arrest and return of - Answers - Anthony Burns.
John Brown killed five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in May 1856 because -
Answers - he was avenging the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, earlier that month.
The main reason James Buchanan received the Democratic presidential nomination in
1856 was that he - Answers - was overseas during the bitter debate over Kansas.
In the Dred Scott decision, - Answers - the Supreme Court ruled that the Missouri
Compromise was unconstitutional.
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, - Answers - Douglas set out to make Lincoln look like
an abolitionist.
John Brown's major goal in attacking Harpers Ferry was to - Answers - seize the federal
arsenal and arm the slaves.
In 1860, the Democratic Party held two conventions and split into a - Answers - northern
and a southern faction.
In the election of 1860, - Answers - Douglas realized he would lose, rose above
ambition, and appealed to voters, both North and South, to stand by the Union.
When Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers after the fall of - Answers - Fort Sumter,
Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee seceded.
Military action early in the Civil War seemed to indicate that - Answers - southern
generals were superior.
In establishing a new government, - Answers - the South was handicapped by its states'
rights philosophy.
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
Regarding slavery as an economic institution in the 1840s and 1850s, - Answers - the
price of slaves rose dramatically from 1820.
There was a tendency throughout the antebellum period for the ownership of slaves to
become more - Answers - concentrated.
An accurate assessment of Southern plantation life would be that - Answers -
plantations produced most of their own clothing and food.
The United States was the only place in the Western Hemisphere where the slave
population grew by - Answers - natural increase.
It is so difficult to generalize about the institution of slavery in the United States because
- Answers - the behavior of individual masters varied greatly.
In the 1830s, Nat Turner gained notoriety as the leader of the most sensational slave
uprising in - Answers - the early nineteenth century.
Southern slavery shaped Southern society and economy because - Answers - as a
result of slavery, the South had fewer cities and little industry.
Most of the industrial workers in the mid-nineteenth century lived in - Answers - the
crowded, squalid slums that sprang up in major cities.
The major paradox of American society before the Civil War was that - Answers - most
Americans continued to believe in egalitarian democracy, even though society was
becoming more stratified and the economic and social distances between the top and
bottom of society were growing.
Clipper ships were popular because - Answers - they provided fast oceanic
transportation.
An accurate description of the economic function of the Illinois Central railroad would be
that - Answers - the railroad channeled the agricultural output of the prairies into
Chicago.
On the eve of the Civil War, - Answers - railroads in the South were still scarce.
The invention of the mechanical reaper was so significant because - Answers - it
allowed farmers to bring in the harvest far more quickly.
, A result of the new fugitive slave law from the Compromise of 1850 was that - Answers -
many Northerners were outraged at the sight of people being forced to return to slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin because - Answers - the Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850 had roused her conscience and prompted her to turn to writing.
The Underground Railroad endangered slavery by its - Answers - explicit challenge to
the South.
Stephen Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 partly because -
Answers - of his plans for a transcontinental railroad.
Northern feelings seemed to reach a boiling point on the Fugitive Slave Law with the
arrest and return of - Answers - Anthony Burns.
John Brown killed five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in May 1856 because -
Answers - he was avenging the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, earlier that month.
The main reason James Buchanan received the Democratic presidential nomination in
1856 was that he - Answers - was overseas during the bitter debate over Kansas.
In the Dred Scott decision, - Answers - the Supreme Court ruled that the Missouri
Compromise was unconstitutional.
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, - Answers - Douglas set out to make Lincoln look like
an abolitionist.
John Brown's major goal in attacking Harpers Ferry was to - Answers - seize the federal
arsenal and arm the slaves.
In 1860, the Democratic Party held two conventions and split into a - Answers - northern
and a southern faction.
In the election of 1860, - Answers - Douglas realized he would lose, rose above
ambition, and appealed to voters, both North and South, to stand by the Union.
When Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers after the fall of - Answers - Fort Sumter,
Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee seceded.
Military action early in the Civil War seemed to indicate that - Answers - southern
generals were superior.
In establishing a new government, - Answers - the South was handicapped by its states'
rights philosophy.
