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U.S. History Week 12
Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800-1860
I designed a quiz related to chapter 12 at the bottom of this article.
Directions for the quiz:
- Scroll down & click on the first thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
- Choose an answer for each question.
- Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
- The correct answer is on the screen following the question.
- Compare your answers with those provided.
- If you cannot easily see the correct answer, check the captions.
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Review the following Chapter 12 pages:
- Introduction
- The Economics of Cotton
- African Americans in the Antebellum United States
- Wealth and Culture in the South
- The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
- Key Terms
- Summary
Practice learning Chapter 12 Key Terms on Quizlet.
Week 12 Videos:
- Crash Course: The Rise of Cotton (12:10)
- The Louisiana Rebellion of 1811 (12:06)
- The Impact of Nat Turner’s Rebellion Still Felt Today (4:04)
- The True Story Behind “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (7:23)
- The Ostend Manifesto (5:05)
- The American Who Proclaimed Himself President of a Latin American Country (6:35)
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U.S. History Week 12 Cotton is King: The Antebellum South 1800-1860 |
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The years after the War of 1812 and before the Civil War are known as the ___ Period. Answer choices include: Reconstruction, Antebellum, Progressive, Colonization |
The correct answer is Antebellum. |
What was the South’s major cash crop of the Antebellum Period? Answer choices include: sugar, tobacco, rice, cotton |
The correct answer is cotton. |
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852? Answer choices include: James Hammond, J.N. Wilson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eli Whitley |
The correct answer is Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
Located at the mouth of the Mississippi River, ___ became an important and diverse American city in the early 1800s. Answer choices include: Savannah, New York City, Houston, New Orleans |
The correct answer is New Orleans. |
The trading of enslaved people within the United States was called ___ slave trade. Answer choices include: central, domestic, Atlantic, international |
The correct answer is domestic. |
Approximately __% of enslaved persons in America labored in cotton fields during the Antebellum Period. Answer choices include: 75, 50, 25, 10 |
The correct answer is 50. |
Enslaved people found solace in ___. Answer choices include: Christian faith, storytelling, music, All of these |
The correct answer is all of these. |
Slaveholders would use ___ to prevent enslaved persons from disobeying their wishes. Answer choices include: threats of selling the person, physical abuse, punishment gear, any of these |
The correct answer is any of these. |
More free Black people lived in the South than in the North. Answer choices include: true, false |
The correct answer is true. |
Upper Southern states had harsher laws that divested free Black people of their rights than Deep Southern states. Answer choices include: true, false |
The correct answer is true. |
Whose rebellion in Virginia caused the state’s legislators to consider ending slavery? Answer choices include: Manuel Andry, William Ellison, Nat Turner, Charles Desiondes |
The correct answer is Nat Turner. |
When did Congress ban further importation of enslaved Africans? Answer choices include: 1808, 1828, 1848, 1868 |
The correct answer is 1808. |
Between 1820 & 1860 during the second middle passage, at least ____ enslaved people were sold in the domestic market. Answer choices include: 10,000; 50,000; 100,000; 1 million |
The correct answer is 1 million. |
The majority of White people in the South owned slaves. Answer choices include: true, false |
The correct answer is false. |
Many elite planters who owned numerous slaves often held local and national political offices. Answer choices include: true, false |
The correct answer is true. |
Small landowners were called ___ farmers, which were what Jefferson had envisioned for the American dream. Answer choices include: yeoman, plantation, tenant, mercantile |
The correct answer is yeoman. |
Vocal groups committed to ending slavery were called ___. Answer choices include: white supremacists, abolitionists, the gentry, expansionists |
The correct answer is abolitionists. |
The Ostend Manifesto promoted the idea of overthrowing ___ for security reasons. Answer choices include: Cuba, Mexico, Canada, Haiti |
The correct answer is Cuba. |
In 1855, William Walker led a group of mercenaries to gain control of ___ to re-institute slavery. Answer choices include: Brazil, Panama, England, Nicaragua |
The correct answer is Nicaragua. |
The correct answer is concurrent majority. |
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