Chapter 16
The South and the Slavery
Controversy, 1793–1860
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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