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This professionally verified Test Bank for A House Divided: The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America (2nd Edition) by Jonathan Wells (ISBN 9781138956858) provides a complete, chapter-organized set of instructor resources and assessment material. Designed for course creators and academic platforms. The textbook’s chapter sequence begins with Chapter One: Slavery and the Long-Term Roots of the Civil War, followed by Chapter Two: The Sectional Crisis, 1830–1850, Chapter Three: The 1850s, Secession, and the Start of War, Chapter Four: The War Begins, Chapter Five: Organizing and Mobilizing War, Chapter Six: In the Grip of War, Chapter Seven: Turning Points, Chapter Eight: War on the Homefront, Chapter Nine: The Union Grinds toward Victory, Chapter Ten: Union Victory and African American Freedom, Chapter Eleven: Reconstruction Begins, Chapter Twelve: Collapse of Reconstruction, and concludes with Chapter Thirteen: America in the Late Nineteenth-Century.

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, 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.
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(A) True
(B) False

Answer: (B) False
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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
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4 By 1804 every state south of Maryland had provided for the gradual abolition of slavery.

(A) True
(B) False
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Answer: (B) False

5 The Missouri Compromise of 1820 settled the issue of slavery expansion once and for all.

(A) True
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(B) False

Answer: (B) False

6 Jamestown was located in this colony.
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(A) Virginia
(B) Maryland
(C) Delaware
(D) Pennsylavnia

Answer: (A) Virginia
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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
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(D) White planters lacked political power in Congress

Answer: (D) White planters lacked political power in Congress

8 Which of the following was not a cash crop in the colonial South?




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, (A) Cotton
(B) Rice
(C) Indigo
(D) Corn

Answer: (D) Corn

9 Northern industrialization was influenced by all but one of the following reasons.

(A) The invention of the telegraph
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(B) Decrease in immigration
(C) The increase in railroad networks
(D) The completion of the Erie Canal
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Answer: (B) Decrease in immigration

10 Jefferson’s purchase of this territory from France initiated a new round of questions
over the issue of slavery.

(A) Missouri
(B) Kansas
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(C) Louisiana
(D) Nebraska

Answer: (C) Louisiana
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11 The Second Party System consisted of these two political parties.

(A) The Democrats and the Republicans
(B) The Federalists and the Republicans
(C) The Democrats and the Whigs
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(D) The Democrats and the Federalists

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