1. How did the cotton gin change the South?

1. How did the cotton gin change the South? • A) Cotton prices increased. • B) Cost of growing cotton increased. • C) It encouraged the South to grow more cotton. • D) The South relied less on slaves.

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2. The songs in which slaves of the South expressed their religious beliefs or passed along coded messages were _____. • A) gospel • B) blues • C) folk songs • D) spirituals

3. For what is Nat Turner best known? • A) Encouraging slaves to accept their condition. • B) Leading an armed revolt of slaves. • C) Preaching sermons to convince slaves to escape. • D) Helping to develop the cotton gin.

4. What invention did Samuel Morse create and what was its effect? • A) plow-increased farm production • B) telegraph-communication over a long distance • C) cotton gin-cotton became a major cash crop • D) steamboat-faster transportation and improved trade

5. What idea of Eli Whitney transformed manufacturing by making each copy of a manufactured item exactly alike? • A) telephone • B) spinning machines • C) interchangeable parts • D) tariff

6. Where were most of the early factories built? • A) Northwest Territory • B) Midwest • C) South • D) New England

7. A person who puts the interests of his or her state or region ahead of what was best for the rest of the nation was demonstrating what attitude? • A) patriotism • B) federalism • C) sectionalism • D) nationalism

8. About which region did Monroe specifically direct part of his Monroe Doctrine? • A) Spain • B) Latin America • C) France • D) Great Britain

9. How did the improvements in transportation change life in the 1800’s? • A) They encouraged national unity by linking distant places. • B) They opened up larger markets for products. • C) They made the movement of people & products cheaper. • D) all are true

10. Which of the following is an accurate statement about the American System? • A) It was a plan to make the US self sufficient. • B) It was a plan to extend slavery. • C) It encouraged Americans to buy European goods. • D) It supported separate state currencies.

11. What was the Missouri Compromise? • A) an agreement to support a national bank • B) a plan to improve the nation’s roads and canals • C) a plan to allow slavery in some areas but not others • D) an agreement to support James Monroe for President

12. What modes of transportation improved the nation’s economy? • A) cars, bicycles, canals, improved roads • B) canals, steamboats, improved roads, steam-driven trains • C) steamboats, steam-powered trains, submarines • D) steamboats, steam-powered locomotives, cars

13. Which is not true about African Americans in the South by the 1840’s? • A) About half of the enslaved African Americanslived on large plantations. • B) Enslaved African Americans formed a third of the South’s population. • C) Most free African Americans owned small farms. • D) Some worked as skilled craftsmen.

14. What did the Supreme Court rule in the case Gibbons v. Ogden? • A) A state had the right to control its own commerce. • B) A state could tax a national bank. • C) States had power over the national government in matters involving taxes. • D) Only the federal government had the right to control interstate commerce.

15. Which of the following is true about the South in the 1840’s? • A) Most white Southern families held at least one slave. • B) About 8% of the African Americans in the South were free. • C) All African Americans in the South were enslaved. • D) White Southerners formed less than half of the region’s population.

16. What did the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 accomplish? • A) set the boundary between Canada and the U.S. • B) gave Florida to the United States • C) removed the Seminoles from Mexico • D) established the naval boundaries on the Great Lakes

17. What was the sectional interest of the American settlers in the West? • A) gold as their currency • B) free land and government grants • C) cheap land and good transportation • D) an alliance with Mexico to control Native Americans

18. Why was the Missouri Compromise important to the nation? • A) It ended nationalism. • B) It ended sectionalism. • C) It ended slavery. • D) It maintained the balance between free and slave states.

19. Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner? • A) Harsher laws were passed limiting the freedoms of slaves. • B) Turner was tried and hanged. • C) Whites felt they ended rebellions forever. • D) Whites killed more than 200 African Americans.

20. Which was NOT part of Henry Clay’s American System? • A) A tariff to protect American business from foreign competition. • B) A toll on roads and canals to fund future construction. • C) A national bank to promote a national currency. • D) An improved transportation system.

21. The secrets of the British textile industry were brought to America by _____. • A) Rush Bagot • B) Eli Whitney • C) Robert Fulton • D) Samuel Slater

22. Young girls lived in company-owned boarding houses and worked in the factories for 12 hours a day in this town. • A) Lowell, Massachusetts • B) Birmingham, Alabama • C) Lincoln, Nebraska • D) Cleveland, Ohio

23. The nation entered a period of political unity called the “Era of Good Feelings” after the election of this President. • A) James Madison • B) John Quincy Adams • C) James Monroe • D) Thomas Jefferson

24. In the Rush-Bagot Agreement, Congress settled the issue of ____. • A) How to handle slave rebellions. • B) LimitingBritish & U.S. naval forces on the Great Lakes. • C) Ownership of Florida. • D) Interstate commerce on the Hudson River.

25. Which was NOT true about the invention of the cotton gin? • A) Its development was encouraged by the growth of textile mills. • B) It encouraged Southerners to settle on Native American land. • C) It enabled Southerners to grow more cotton. • D) It reduced the need for slave labor on plantations.

1. How did the cotton gin change the South?