Review Questions

1. 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.

2. 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

3. Why did some southerners believe their region was immune to the effects of the market revolution? Why was this thinking misguided?

4. Under the law in the antebellum South, enslaved people were ________.
servants
animals
property
indentures

5. How did both slaveholders and enslaved people use the concept of paternalism to their advantage?

6. 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

7. John C. Calhoun argued for greater rights for southerners with which idea?
polygenism
nullification
concurrent majority
paternalism

8. How did defenders of slavery use the concept of paternalism to structure their ideas?

9. 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

10. The controversy at the heart of the Ostend Manifesto centered on the fate of _______.
Ostend, Belgium
Nicaragua
Cuba
Louisiana

11. Why did expansionists set their sights on the annexation of Spanish Cuba?