Test Flashcards
The phrase “black belt” refers to this in the South.
fertile soil of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi
In 1850, what percentage of all slaves was engaged in cotton growing?
55 percent
One of the most noteworthy features of the slave community in the American South was ____________.
the expanded kinship network that developed within it
Denmark Vesey was to South Carolina as Nat Turner was to _____________
Virginia
The first slave rebel to actually kill a large number of white people was ____________
Nat Turner
One of the most common violations of the southern paternalistic code of behavior was _____________.
sexual abuse of female slaves by their masters
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the American economy benefitted greatly from___________.
the connection between southern slavery and northern slavery
George Fitzhugh defended slavery on the grounds that __________.
slaves were better off than northern “wage slaves”
Southern apologists for slavery linked slave uprisings to ___________.
northern antislavery opinion
In 1850, the majority of slaves were engaged in _________ cultivation .
cotton
What did the British dub “the American system of manufacturers?”
interchangeable parts
Many of the first strikes in American labor history were led by ____________.
women workers
What was the simplest and quickest way for America to industrialize in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
copy British technology
Why was the National Road unsatisfactory to farmers in a commercial sense?
Shipments of bulky goods like grain were too slow and expensive by road.
Migrants of _________ origin accounted for at least 40 percent of the population of the Yankee West.
New England.
The religion that captured the attention of the new middle class in the early 1800s incorporated an __________.
enthusiastic evangelistic approach to religious practice.
In both rural and urban settings, working families were ___________
organized along strictly patriarchal lines
What city benefitted the most from the opening of the Erie Canal?
New York
As an early 1800s Cincinnati merchant, you were most likely yo be financing ___________.
steamboat construction
For what group was the putting-out system the most beneficial?
farm families
After Mexico became independent from Spain it relied exclusionary policies in ____________
Santa Fe and Texas that had been put in place by the Spanish government
Claiming the Rio Grande rather Than the Nueces River as the boundary of Texas gave the United States a claim to ______________
New Mexico and parts of Colorado
To whom was John O’Sullivan referring to when he spoke of bringing democracy to “backwards people”?
Indians and Mexicans
Like other California immigrants, most of the Chinese _____________
intended to return home as soon as they made money
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania Democrat, proposed that slavery be _____________
banned from any territory acquired from Mexico
The Lewis and Clark Expedition was financed by ________
the federal government
As commander-in-chief during the war, James K. Polk defined the role of president by coordinating both ____________
civilian and military goals and needs
During the Mexican-American war, northern Whigs began to characterize the war as a(n) _________
southern conspiracy to expand slavery
The controversy over the borders of Oregon was resolves by ______________
a treaty extending the previous boundary line
Prior to the 1830s, the dominant industry in the Oregon Territory was ___________
the fur trade
