Review Questions
- Which of the following was not one of the effects of the cotton boom?
- U.S. trade increased with France and Spain.
- Northern manufacturing expanded.
- The need for slave labor grew.
- Port cities like New Orleans expanded.
- The abolition of the foreign slave trade in 1807 led to _______.
- a dramatic decrease in the price and demand for enslaved people
- the rise of a thriving domestic slave trade
- a reform movement calling for the complete end to slavery in the United States
- the decline of cotton production
- Why did some southerners believe their region was immune to the effects of the market revolution? Why was this thinking misguided?
- Under the law in the antebellum South, enslaved people were ________.
- servants
- animals
- property
- indentures
- How did both slaveholders and enslaved people use the concept of paternalism to their advantage?
- The largest group of White people in the South _______.
- enslaved no one
- enslaved between one and nine people each
- enslaved between ten and ninety-nine people each
- enslaved over one hundred people each
- John C. Calhoun argued for greater rights for southerners with which idea?
- polygenism
- nullification
- concurrent majority
- paternalism
- How did defenders of slavery use the concept of paternalism to structure their ideas?
- Why did southern expansionists conduct filibuster expeditions?
- to gain political advantage
- to annex new slave states
- to prove they could raise an army
- to map unknown territories
- The controversy at the heart of the Ostend Manifesto centered on the fate of _______.
- Ostend, Belgium
- Nicaragua
- Cuba
- Louisiana
- Why did expansionists set their sights on the annexation of Spanish Cuba?
