STAAR 10 Day Blitz Day 6

The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 made cotton growing in the south to become very efficient, and therefore profitable, for southern farmers. This lead to which of the following occurrences:

I. An increase in the African slave trade

II. Smaller cotton plantations took the place of larger farms

III. Dependence on cotton in the southern economy

• I and II only

• I and III only

• II and III only

• I, II, and III

The key issue of the Nullification Crisis was a debate over:

• Individual power of states over federal authority

• Abolishment of slavery

• Women’s right to vote and run for office

• Relocation of Indians to western territories

Andrew Jackson dispatched naval ships to Charleston harbor and warned South Carolina that its action to void the Tariff of 1832 within its territory was treason. This was his response to:

• Indian Removal Act

• Industrial Revolution

• Missouri Compromise

• The Nullification Crisis

In context of Question #3 (above), Andrew Jackson believed that:

• South Carolina farmers could determine their own level of taxation.

• South Carolina was correct in its assertion that it could secede from the Union over the Tariff of 1832.

• South Carolina did not have the authority to nullify a federal law unconstitutional.

• South Carolina was no longer a slave state under federal law.

In Worcester v. Georgia, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall declared:

“The act of Georgia under which the plaintiff [Worchester] was prosecuted is void. The acts of Georgia are [against] the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States.”

This ruling supports the idea of:

• republicanism

• popular sovereignty

• individual rights

• anti-federalism

During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, Protestant Evangelicals supported what major reform movement?

• Abolishment of slavery

• Individual rights for Indians

• Women’s right to vote

• Rights of factory workers

In the Nullification Crisis, what political leader argued that states reserved the right to nullify federal laws?

• Andrew Jackson

• John Calhoun

• John Quincy Adams

• Henry Clay

Why were southern states against the higher tariffs enacted by Congress?

• It would make it more difficult to export crops

• It would give northern farmers an economic advantage

• It would give slaves more individual rights.

• It would prevent manufacturing business from growing

Andrew Jackson’s views on slavery were mostly aligned with which of the following groups?

• Protestant evangelicals

• Northern Republicans

• Southern plantation owners

• European immigrants

How did the southern plantation system influence the northern economic system?

• The economic system of the northern states was completely independent from the southern plantations.

• The tariffs on southern plantations made northern businesses more profitable.

• Northern plantations could not compete with cheaper prices from southern plantations because of their use of slave labor.

• Southern plantations produced cotton used in northern mills and factories.