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Chapter 16 The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793–1860
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Chapter 16The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793–1860
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Question
The West Africa Squadron was the
a) Barbary pirates’ fleet based in Tripoli.
b) United States’ Marine Corps advance brigade.
c) Royal Navy’s anti-slavery platoon.
d) U.S. merchant marine engaged in Triangular Trade.
16 | 3Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Question
The Responsorial style of preaching was a/an
a) expansion of the “hellfire and damnation” evangelism of the First Great Awakening.
b) adaptation of the give-and-take between caller and dancers in the African ringshout dance.
c) modified version of Transcendentalism practiced by the Church of Jesus Christ Scientist.
d) innovation of the evangelical Methodist and Baptist sects during the Second Great Awakening.
16 | 4Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Question
The most successful slave rebellion in U.S. territory was probably
a) Nat Turner’s Rebellion.
b) Gabriel’s Rebellion.
c) Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion.
d) the Amistad event.
16 | 5Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Question
The Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
a) advocated a bloody end to white supremacy.
b) promoted peaceful co-existence between the races.
c) attempted to find a middle ground between slavery and rebellion.
d) supported secession as the only alternative to the tyranny of slavery.
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Question
The American Colonization Society advocated
a) immediate national abolition of slavery.
b) gradual manumission of well-qualified individual slaves.
c) transplanting the American slave population to Canada.
d) transporting blacks bodily back to Africa.
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Question
All of the following were true of The Liberator EXCEPT
a) its author, William Lloyd Garrison, rejected the spiritual arguments of the Second Great Awakening.
b) Garrison triggered a thirty-year war of words and, in a sense, fired one of the opening barrages of the Civil War.
c) Garrison proclaimed that under no circumstances would he tolerate slavery, but he would stamp it out at once, root and branch.
d) it favored northern secession from the South and antagonized both sections with his intemperate language.
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Question
“Abolition’s golden trumpet,” who helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society, was
a) John C. Calhoun.
b) Wendell Phillips.
c) Henry Clay.
d) William Crawford.
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Question
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass depicted all of the following EXCEPT his
a) remarkable origins as the son of a black slave woman and a white father.
b) role in bringing on secession.
c) struggle to learn to read and write.
d) eventual escape to the North.
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Question
The Gag Resolution of 1836
a) prohibited the flooding of Southern whites’ mails with incendiary abolitionist literature.
b) required all antislavery appeals to Congress to be tabled without debate.
c) advocated looting post offices and burning abolitionist propaganda.
d) mandated that Southern state officials destroy abolitionist material arrest federal postmasters who did not do so.
16 | 11Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Question
All of the following were true of the antislavery movement EXCEPT
a) in the 1820s. antislavery societies were more numerous south of the Mason-Dixon line than north of it.
b) after about 1830, the voice of white southern abolitionism expanded in the “Old South” whose reliance on tobacco was fading.
c) in a last gasp of southern questioning of slavery, the Virginia legislature debated and eventually defeated various emancipation proposals in 1831–1832.
d) after 1832, all the slave states tightened their slave codes and moved to prohibit emancipation of any kind, voluntary or compensated.
16 | 12Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Answer
The West Africa Squadron was the
a) Barbary pirates’ fleet based in Tripoli.
b) United States’ Marine Corps advance brigade.
c) Royal Navy’s anti-slavery platoon. (correct)
d) U.S. merchant marine engaged in Triangular Trade.
Hint: See page 379.
16 | 13Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Answer
The Responsorial style of preaching was a/an
a) expansion of the “hellfire and damnation” evangelism of the First Great Awakening.
b) adaptation of the give-and-take between caller and dancers in the African ringshout dance. (correct)
c) modified version of Transcendentalism practiced by the Church of Jesus Christ Scientist.
d) innovation of the evangelical Methodist and Baptist sects during the Second Great Awakening.
Hint: See page 383.
16 | 14Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Answer
The most successful slave rebellion in U.S. territory was probably
a) Nat Turner’s Rebellion.
b) Gabriel’s Rebellion.
c) Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion.
d) the Amistad event. (correct)
Hint: See page 384.
16 | 15Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Answer
The Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
a) advocated a bloody end to white supremacy. (correct)
b) promoted peaceful co-existence between the races.
c) attempted to find a middle ground between slavery and rebellion.
d) supported secession as the only alternative to the tyranny of slavery.
Hint: See page 387.
16 | 16Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Answer
The American Colonization Society advocated
a) immediate national abolition of slavery.
b) gradual manumission of well-qualified individual slaves.
c) transplanting the American slave population to Canada.
d) transporting blacks bodily back to Africa. (correct)
Hint: See page 384.
16 | 17Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Answer
All of the following were true of The Liberator EXCEPT
a) its author, William Lloyd Garrison, rejected the spiritual arguments of the Second Great Awakening. (correct)
b) Garrison triggered a thirty-year war of words and, in a sense, fired one of the opening barrages of the Civil War.
c) Garrison proclaimed that under no circumstances would he tolerate slavery, but he would stamp it out at once, root and branch.
d) it favored northern secession from the South and antagonized both sections with his intemperate language.
Hint: See page 386.
16 | 18Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Answer
“Abolition’s golden trumpet,” who helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society, was
a) John C. Calhoun.
b) Wendell Phillips. (correct)
c) Henry Clay.
d) William Crawford.
Hint: See page 387.
16 | 19Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Answer
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass depicted all of the following EXCEPT his
a) remarkable origins as the son of a black slave woman and a white father.
b) role in bringing on secession. (correct)
c) struggle to learn to read and write.
d) eventual escape to the North.
Hint: See page 387.
16 | 20Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Answer
The Gag Resolution of 1836
a) prohibited the flooding of Southern whites’ mails with incendiary abolitionist literature.
b) required all antislavery appeals to Congress to be tabled without debate. (correct)
c) advocated looting post offices and burning abolitionist propaganda.
d) mandated that Southern state officials destroy abolitionist material arrest federal postmasters who did not do so.
Hint: See page 391.
16 | 21Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
Answer
All of the following were true of the antislavery movement EXCEPT
a) in the 1820s. antislavery societies were more numerous south of the Mason-Dixon line than north of it.
b) after about 1830, the voice of white southern abolitionism expanded in the “Old South” whose reliance on tobacco was fading. (correct)
c) in a last gasp of southern questioning of slavery, the Virginia legislature debated and eventually defeated various emancipation proposals in 1831–1832.
d) after 1832, all the slave states tightened their slave codes and moved to prohibit emancipation of any kind, voluntary or compensated.
Hint: See page 391.
