The plantation elite were characterized by all of the following criteria except...

   

• 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.

The ancestors of the Native American peoples...

   

• 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. 

The Missouri Compromise of 1820...

   

• 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. 

In their petitions to Congress in the 1830s, abolitionists frequently called for...

    

• 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.

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.
• 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.

The Stamp Act Congress held in New York in 1765...

   

• 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.