Test Bank For A House Divided: The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America 2nd Edition by Jonathan Wells (All Chapters)
Test Bank For A House Divided: The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America 2nd Edition by Jonathan Wells (All Chapters) 1 Traders and speculators in slaves were often considered the lowest kind of businessmen. (A) True (B) False Answer: (A) True 2 The Northwest Ordinance allowed for slavery to be extended into the territories south of the Great Lakes and north and west of the Ohio River. (A) True (B) False Answer: (B) False 3 Relatively few white southerners owned slaves and very few could have been classified as “planters” with twenty or more slaves. (A) True (B) False Answer: (A) True 4 By 1804 every state south of Maryland had provided for the gradual abolition of slavery. (A) True (B) False Answer: (B) False 5 The Missouri Compromise of 1820 settled the issue of slavery expansion once and for all. (A) True (B) False Answer: (B) False 6 Jamestown was located in this colony. (A) Virginia (B) Maryland (C) Delaware (D) Pennsylavnia Answer: (A) Virginia 7 Divisions existed within the plantation South for all but one of the following reasons. (A) White southerners who lived in western regions resented planter class (B) Middle-class southerners idolized northern middle- class ideology (C) White women were forced to acquiesce to their husband’s sexual abuse of female slaves (D) White planters lacked political power in Congress Answer: (D) White planters lacked political power in Congress
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