Antebellum Question Preview (ID: 34220)


From The Invention Of The Cotton Gin In 1793 To The Nullification Crisis In 932. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

why did South Carolina oppose a protective tariff
a) state wanted factories
b) state wanted strong central government
c) it would impose a tax on exports
d) it would raise the price of imported goods

What question did all new states in the west have to ask before the Missouri Compromise
a) Do we want a strong government?
b) Do we want industry or farming?
c) Do we want slavery?
d) Do we want to join the Union?

What was the major difference between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun?
a) Calhoun states rights and Jackson strong government
b) Calhoun against slavery and Jackson saw slavery as cheap labor
c) Calhoun wanted industrial growth and Jackson wanted to remain farm based
d) Calhoun supported free black males voting and Jackson only wanted 21 year old white males

How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slavery in the South
a) increased the number of slaves
b) decreased the number of slaves
c) Provided slaves more free time
d) led to the establishment of textile mills

John C. Calhoun believed South Carolinian's should take what action in response to the protective tariff?
a) pay the full tariff
b) immediately secede from the United States
c) refuse to pay the tariff
d) pay only part of the tariff

Why was it unusual for the Grimke sisters to fight against slavery?
a) They were northerners and were trying to get a book published
b) They had been slaves in the south and ran away to speak out against slavery
c) They grew up on a plantation and were raised by house slaves
d) The Quaker church paid them to be abolitionists

By 1830, why were there few slaves in the northern states?
a) Slaves had been returned to Africa.
b) Slaves had never been legal in northern states.
c) Slaves had escaped to Canada on the underground railroad.
d) Slaves had been freed through gradual emancipation laws.

In which movement are people involved in trying to put an end to slavery
a) Abolitionist movement
b) Temperance movement
c) Expansionist movement
d) Women’s suffrage movement

Who purchased their freedom after winning a lottery ticket but was later executed for a planned rebellion.
a) Nat Turner
b) Robert Smalls
c) Denmark Vesey
d) Fredrick Douglas

Which statement best characterizes the condition of free African Americans in the pre-Civil War south?
a) received lower pay than slaves
b) lacked the basic rights held by whites
c) encouraged free blacks to attend school
d) earned low wages because they were unskilled

How did southerners, like John C. Calhoun, justify slavery as a “positive good?”
a) Slaves could earn their own money as artisans and carpenters
b) Slaves would sing, dance, and play music at their worship meetings
c) Slaves were provided one set of clothing each spring and fall and allowed to plant small gardens
d) Slave owners claimed that slaves were better cared for than factory workers in the North

In 1810, South Carolina amended its Constitution and was the first state to make voting more equal through which change?
a) Only slave owners had the right to vote
b) Property ownership requirements were eliminated
c) All women over the age of 21 could vote
d) Free blacks could vote in local elections

why did ALexander Hamilton urge Congress to pass a high protectie tariff?
a) grow labor unions
b) grow American manufacturing or factories
c) prevent spread of slavery
d) expand agriculture into the west

Why was the lowcountry willing to give the upcountry more representation in the General Assembly through the Compromise of 1808?
a) both regions supported slavery
b) More than half of the world’s cotton came from upcountry plantations, so they paid greater taxes
c) the lowcountry turned to the upcountry as a new source of labo
d) Upcountry farmers planted tobacco, indigo, and wheat and didn’t compete with lowcountry rice planters

How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slavery and the plantation system in the South?
a) Provided slaves more free time
b) Decreased the number of slaves and plantations in South Carolina
c) Led to the establishment of textile mills
d) Increased the number of slaves and plantations in South Carolina

What problem did farmers create in growing too much cotton in the same field again and again?
a) The slaves had to work harder to produce the same crop
b) The soil wore out and farmers moved farther west
c) The banks refused to loan money to farmers
d) Flooding after storms ruined the land

What was the northern economy focused on during the antebellum period?
a) Agriculture
b) Fishing
c) Industrialization
d) Mining

what circumstance would most likely lead to the separation of slave family membersDuring the antebellum period, the two main cash crops in SC were
a) increase in cotton production
b) task and gang system divided the work
c) a change in the masters family or finances
d) native americans helped them to escape

John C. Calhoun and this group were upset with the president and wanted to go to war with Britain
a) Fire Eaters
b) War Pigs
c) War Hawks
d) Angry BIrds

In order to keep representation equal Missouri was allowed to enter the Union as a slave state if this state could become a free state
a) Michigan
b) Montana
c) Maine
d) New Mexico

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