Showing posts with label African Americans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African Americans. Show all posts

Friday, November 15, 2019

The effect of revolutionary idealism on African Americans included all of the following EXCEPT

The correct chronological order of the following events is
Lord Dunmore's declaration issued, France enters the war, Articles of Confederation ratified, Treaty of Paris signed.

The reason the Battle of Saratoga was important was 
It convinced France to enter the war because the Patriots had a chance to win.

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had the authority to do all of the following EXCEPT 
Raise revenue from the citizens.

The effect of revolutionary idealism on African Americans included all of the following EXCEPT 
The general willingness in the Lower South to override their interests and allow emancipation.

The events leading to the Revolution witnessed 
People with property who wanted a strong executive and upper house to prevent chaos and dictatorship.

The new state constitutions ranged from liberal to conservative as exemplified by 
New York which balanced the two with a bicameral legislature and property qualifications.

The Continental Army was important because 
It embodied the egalitarian and national aspects of the Revolution.

Women, during the War for Independence, did all of the following EXCEPT 
Be actively recruited and serve in the army.

The Loyalists 
Suffered from a loss of rights and property.

The members of the American peace commission included all of the following EXCEPT 
Thomas Jefferson.

Revolutionary idealism, upholding freedom and equality as goals, had all of the following effects EXCEPT 
The adoption of a penal code restricting capital punishment to the crimes of murder and treason.

The experience of the Continental Army at Valley Forge 
Gave the men strength through common bond and national sentiment.

During the peace negotiations with Britain, the American commissioners 
Violated their instructions and reached a preliminary agreement with the British.

All of the following Indian peoples joined the British during the Revolutionary War EXCEPT
The Oneidas.

After the American victory at Saratoga, all of the following occurred EXCEPT
Spain formally recognized the independence of the United States.

All of the following tended to be Loyalists EXCEPT
People who were not conservative in their political values.

The map of the military campaign for New York and New Jersey shows that the early fall of 1776 was 
A disaster for the Americans.

The battles in New York and New Jersey, in the summer and fall of 1776 
Convinced Washington that a defensive policy was the Patriots' best hope.

All of the following were problems for the United States in the Trans-Appalachian West EXCEPT
The need to increase migration to Kentucky and other areas.

Based on the map of fighting in the West and on who won the most battles, it would seem that
The Americans had defeated the Indians in the war.

The militias during the war for independence


Were unreliable and undisciplined in a time when war required cohesion.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831 caused a major reaction in the South for all of the following reasons

Christianity for African Americans 
Was a religion of spiritual freedom helping blacks survive oppression.

The most important cause of the Old South's prosperity was
The English textile mills.

The increase in cotton production in the Lower South 
Led to a thriving internal slave trade, dividing families.

Leaders of slave revolts in the nineteenth century included all of the following EXCEPT' 
Absalom Jones.

African Americans sold under the internal slave trade 
Were often resentful of the forced migration and labor.

The African-American slave population in the South grew as a result of higher birth rates because 
Women adopted the practice of breastfeeding for one year.

African-American house servants in the South 
Had to sacrifice their own families to care for the master's.

Life for the planter elite 
Was based on the paternalistic belief that the plantation was one big family.

Marriage for slaves 
Was a more equal partnership than whites had.

The internal slave trade after 1820 
Involved little humane feeling but generated high profits.

The development of the South as a slave society 
Made the master-slave relationship the model for the whole society.

Field work on the plantations
Was labor readily and commonly enforced by the overseer's whip.

The percentage of southern white people who owned slaves in 1830 was
36 percent

Changes in the South between 1830 and 1860 included 
A greater feeling of insecurity among yeoman farmers.

One of the most common violations of the plantation as one big family with the master as benevolent father was 
The forcible rape of black women by their masters.

Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831 caused a major reaction in the South for all of the following reasons EXCEPT 
Turner was a religious person who had had visions.

African Americans were sustained during slavery by
Their ability to form bonds and a sense of community.

"Alabama Fever" is best described as 
The zeal that southerners displayed for acquiring new lands in the deep South in order to grow cotton using slave labor.

The "Second Middle Passage" refers to: 
The transportation of slaves from one region to another in the deep South

The cotton gin was important because
It meant that the demand for land among Southerners would increase.


Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Slave labor contributed to the economic development of Britain in all of the following ways EXCEPT

The size of the slave labor force in the Chesapeake in the 1700s
Grew larger after the 1730s because of the natural increase of "country-born."

The African-American culture and community
Was based on music and dance, which provided a unity across tribal and ethnic lines.

The effect of the slave trade on Africa was 
The destabilization, depopulation, and corruption of society for short-term profits.

The sale of the enslaved at the end of the Middle Passage usually
Revealed that the enslaved were considered to be mere property.

Sugar production with African slavery
Made the sugar-producing colonies more valuable.

Slave labor contributed to the economic development of Britain in all of the following ways EXCEPT
It brought the greatest return on investment and was called "the mainspring."

Once slavery became identified with skin color,
All white colonists themselves became roughly equal based on skin color.

For family life, African Americans did all of the following EXCEPT
Surrender all control of the children to women because men were often absent.

The slaves who worked the rice plantations
Created a culture and community of their own with a strong sense of their oppression.

South Carolina between 1670 and 1730
Engaged in an Indian slave trade using Indian tribes to capture other Indians.

The status of blacks in the Chesapeake before 1650
Was unclear because some blacks gained freedom and held slaves themselves.

The horrors of the Middle Passage included all of the following EXCEPT
The practice of punishing rebellious captives called "dancing the slaves."

The map of the slave trade shows that the largest percentage of Africans came from
West Central Africa.

The reasons the Chesapeake changed from a society with slaves to a slave society included all of the following EXCEPT
The indentured servants had proven to be model citizens upon ending their service.

The Virginians passed a series of laws defining slavery in the late 1600s
To give slavery a legal basis because there were no English legal precedents for it.