The most important export crops of the American colonial period were
A) Cotton, tobacco, and rice.
B) Cotton, sugar, and rice.
C) Sugar, rice, and tobacco.
D) Indigo, sugar, and sorghum.
E) Tobacco, rice, and indigo.
Answer: E
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APUSH Chapter 10
- Louisiana, Virginia, Delaware and North Carolina had this in common in terms of population patterns:
- This state had a large number of slaves but NOT due to cotton production:
- The "black belt" of the south refers to the those parts of western Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi that
- Which was NOT a slave state in 1850?
- Which one of the following was NOT an event occurring AFTER the Missouri Crisis that alarmed southern slave owners?
- Which one of the following lists these events in the correct chronological order?
- This was NOT one of the southern states that had at least 40 percent slaves:
- In these two states, the enslaved African American population outnumbered the white:
- This percent of slaves in the South worked in mining, lumbering, industry and construction:
- Slaves were NOT generally used in growing this staple yeoman crop:
- Which one of the following had slaves but no cotton production?
- To African Americans, being "sold down the river" referred to
- In general cotton production spread this direction, especially in 1840 and 1860:
- Which one of the following is NOT one of the six new slave states added between 1790 and 1821?
- In 1835, southerners tightened these to protect the slave system:
- Hinton Rowan Helper's 1857 work The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It was a/an
- In 1836, Congress passed the "gag rule" to prevent discussion of
- Flush Times" refers to a wave of westward expansion by southerners from
- Both Nat Turner's rebellion in Virginia and Garrison's publishing of the Liberator happened in
- As provided in the Constitution, the Congress prohibited U.S. participation in the international slave trade in
- Partly as a result of this 1800 revolt, Virginia tightens laws on granting freedom to slaves in 1806:
- The cotton gin, an invention that made cotton growing profitable and entrenched slavery, was developed in
- Which one of the following is NOT one of the reasons the South closed ranks on defending slavery in the 1830s?
- The Missouri Crisis of 1819-20 alarmed many southerners because they were
- Natchez County had the highest concentration of this in the nation: