Question 1

what was the main reason the southern economy was dependent on slave larbor

Accepted Answer

Enslaved workers planted and harvested crops on plantations

Question 2

what new technology made cotton King in the south in the 1800s.

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the cotton gin

Question 3

What was the Nullification Crisis?

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a states' issue started by south carolina

Question 4

Nativists in the 1850 believed that immigrants

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could not fit into american society

Question 5

what was one problem with overland travel in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

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It was slow and expensive to ship goods overland.

Question 6

what was one effect of Santa Anna's rise to power in the 1830s?

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Texas revolted and declared independence from mexico.

Question 7

which BEST describes John C. Calhoun?

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a two-time vice president who supported slavery and states' rights

Question 8

Who crafted the Missouri Compromise, which was passed in 1820?

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Henry Clay

Question 9

founded in 1833, the American Anti-Slavery society

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adopted resolutions and sent petitions to Congress

Question 10

Abolitionist of the early 1800s were influenced by the

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Second Great Awakening

Question 11

in the 1800s, most enslaved workers on plantations lived in...

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simple cabins

Question 12

What Best describes a difference between enslaved people in cities and those on plantations in the 1800s

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Enslaved people in cities often kept some of their wages,while enslaved people on plantations never received and wages

Question 13

What statement is the MOST accurate comparison of William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglass?

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both men edited abolitionist newspapers, but Douglass wrote an autobiography about being enslaved.

Question 14

The religious music of enslaved African Americans became the basis for modern

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gospel music

Question 15

South Carolina eventually repealed its Ordinance of Nullification in exchange for

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the federal elimination of the Tariff of 1828 and a gradual reduction on import taxes over a decade

Question 16

in addition to making speeches and printing newspapers, many abolitionists

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wrote petitions asking Congress to outlaw slavery.

Question 17

How did the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 affect the use of slave labor in the South?

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Because the cotton gin processed so quickly, farmers need increasing numbers of enslaved workers

Question 18

Which statement BEST describes the slave codes in the 1830s?

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They were laws that controlled the lives of enslaved people

Question 19

the south's resentment of the tariffs of the American System was an example of

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sectionalism

Question 20

what was one significant result of the changes in manufacturing and transportation that took place in the first half on the nineteenth century?

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Cities became overcrowded as more people traveled to the North,looking for factory work

Question 21

by 1860, the number of miles of railroad tracks throughout the United States had risen to

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30,000

Question 22

The cotton gin sped up the production of cotton by

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separating the seeds from the cotton plant quickly

Question 23

after the Texans revolted and captured San Antonio in the late 1830s,

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Santa Anna brought troops to take back the city

Question 24

how did Sam Houston persuade the United States to annex Texas?

Accepted Answer

by threatening to ask Britain for help if the United States refused

Question 25

When Texas joined the United States in 1845,Texas was

Accepted Answer

an independent nation

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