Question 1

What effects did the Cotton Gin have on the demand for slave labor?

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Demand increased because the cotton gin led to an increased in cotton farming.

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Demand decreased because the cotton gin led to an increase in cotton farming.

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Demand increased because the cotton gin led to a decrease in cotton farming

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Demand decreased because the cotton gin led to a decrease in cotton farming

Question 2

What was the greatest benefit of the invention of the cotton gin?

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It revolutionized the cotton industry and gave a boost to southern living.

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It saved planters money on manual labor and almost guaranteed financial success.

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It enabled more planters to grow short-staple, green seed cotton

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It allowed raw cotton to be processed more quickly by hand

Question 3

Increased cotton production led to an economic boom in the South.  What were the effects of this economic boom on  the region?

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All of the above.

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Attracted new settlers.

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Firmly embedded slavery in the South.

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Built up wealth among wealthy white southerners.

Question 4

How did Eli Whitney’s original cotton gin work?

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A worker cranked the machine and “teeth” separated green seeds from cotton fibers.

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Cotton was put into the machine, which seeded, baled and tied the fibers with hemp.

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A steam engine powered the machine, which removed seeds from long-staple cotton.

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Horses drew the machine through green-seed cotton fields to harvest seedless fibers.

Question 5

Which of these is not a main type of job that free African Americans held in the South?

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Small and large business owners.

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Skilled artisans within the city limits.

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Workers in shipyards and mills.

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Paid laborers on plantations and farms.

Question 6

Religion affected white Southern society in all of the following ways, except which?

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Politicians met with religious groups to campaign for southern issues.

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Farm families saw church gatherings as their only opportunity to socialize.

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Wealthy southerners used religion to justify the institution of slavery.

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Religion gave rural women an opportunity to volunteer.

Question 7

Which does not describe a yeoman?

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The yeoman were the wealthiest of the social groups.

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The yeoman often worked long hours

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The yeoman sometimes owned slaves.

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The yeoman own about 100 acres of land.

Question 8

Life in southern cities was not similar to life in the North because:

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Slaves did most of the work.

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Public education was widely available.

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Local governments funded water systems.

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Business owners maintained streets.

Question 9

Which of these does not describe life under slavery?

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Slaves were praised daily for their work by planters.

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Slaves were house in dirt floor cabins with leaky roofs.

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Family members would often be separated.

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Planters offered more food or better living conditions to encourage obedience.

Question 10

Religion boosted the spirits of slaves in which of the following ways

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All of these

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They came to see themselves as God’s chosen people.

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They sang emotional Christian songs called “spirituals”.

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They gained faith that they would one day live in freedom.

Question 11

Slaves would rebell because

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They were tired of the hardships they faced and lack of freedom they had

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They wanted new slaveholders.

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They wanted stricter slave codes

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None of the above

Question 12

How did enslaved parents pass their culture down to their children?

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They told folk tales, passed down family histories, cultures, and traditions.

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They taught emotional Christian songs about freedom.

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They showed their children how to outsmart slaveholders.

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They read African stories to their children every night.

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