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From the onset, U.S.

Government grappled with the uncomfortable


question of slavery in all of the following legal measures EXCEPT
the: Nonimportation Act of 1807
What single event halted idealistic discussions in the early republic
about the eventual end of slavery? The invention of the cotton gin
Which of these economic woes was NOT associated with cotton
cultivation in the plantation South? A rising number of new immigrants
seeking to profit from the land
By 1860 nearly three-quarters of all white Southerners: owned no
slaves
Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the free blacks
in antebellum America? They shared the same voting and other rights as
white men everywhere
The number one form of wealth in the South was: slaves
Considered one of the most traumatic aspects of slavery, forced
separations of loved ones happened most frequently on: small
plantations in the upper South
Slaves worked to undermine their masters and regain some margin
of autonomy--however small--in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
destroying homes and crops
What was the result of the slave uprising aboard the Amistad in
1893? Slave rebels ultimately won their freedom in court
The earliest anti-slavery efforts focused mainly on: exporting slaves
back to Africa
How did the two great abolitionists, former slave Frederick Douglass
and northern white businessman William Lloyd Garrison, differ in
their strategy for ending slavery? Garrison renounced political
remedies; Douglass embraced them.
Nat Turner's rebellion produced all of the following results EXCEPT
that it: breathed new life into the abolitionist movement in the South
Which of these was NOT offered as a defense of slavery? that slavery
provided blacks with minimal education in reading and writing
The main reason that much of the North did NOT initially embrace
abolitionism or support it until the 1850's was that: the northern
economy was tightly bound to that of the South

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