- roughly three thousand families comprised of the plantation elite category.
- plantation elites owned more than 1,000 slaves.
- plantation elites owned huge tracts of fertile land.
- plantation elites were both traditional aristocrats from the Old South and market entrepreneurs of the New South.
ANSWER: The plantation elite were characterized by all of the following criteria except plantation elites owned more than 1,000 slaves.
- always lived in the Western Hemisphere.
- migrated by sea from Polynesia.
- migrated by sea from China.
- migrated by land from northeastern Asia.
ANSWER: The ancestors of the Native American peoples migrated by land from northeastern Asia.
- resulted from the conciliatory efforts of Congressman James Tallmadge of New York.
- provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state in 1820, and Missouri to enter as a slave state the following year.
- prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory south of latitude 36°30´.
- convinced the aged and retired Thomas Jefferson that the peaceful extinction of slavery by mutual agreement was now in sight.
ANSWER: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state in 1820, and Missouri to enter as a slave state the following year.
- appropriating funds to compensate slave owners for emancipating their slaves.
- abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.
- ending the Atlantic slave trade.
- impeaching any president who condoned slavery and barring slave owners from serving in Congress.
ANSWER: In their petitions to Congress in the 1830s, abolitionists frequently called for abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.
- it produced and exported 1.5 million bales of raw cotton, over two-thirds of the world supply.
- planters were using European immigrants as industrial workers.
- planters were building factories to process cotton.
- southern society was dominated by free labor.
ANSWER: By 1840 the South was on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution because it produced and exported 1.5 million bales of raw cotton, over two-thirds of the world supply.
- was a failure because the nine colonies represented could not agree on a unified policy.
- protested loss of American rights and liberties and declared that only elected representatives could impose taxes on colonists.
- formulated a set of resolves that threatened rebellion against Britain.
- accepted the constitutionality of the Sugar Act but not the Stamp Act.
ANSWER: The Stamp Act Congress held in New York in 1765 protested loss of American rights and liberties and declared that only elected representatives could impose taxes on colonists.
