APUSH Ch. 11

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Within the American South, the institution of slavery
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created a unique bond between masters and slaves, while isolating blacks and whites from each other and encouraging blacks to develop a society ans culture of their own
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One actual slave revolt in the nineteenth-century South was led by
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Nat Turner
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Regarding religion, American slaves
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often incorporated African features into their Christianity
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Prior to 1860, affluent southern white women
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centered their lives in the home
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Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War southern whites was their
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perception of white racial superiority
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The historian who wrote " The South (prior to the civil war) grew, but did not develop" meant that
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the South had failed to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy
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The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to
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slavery
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By 1860, the textile manufacturing sector of the American South
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had increased threefold in value over the previous twenty years
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Short-staple cotton
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helped to keep the south a predominately agricultural region
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The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the
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underground railroad
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The slave codes of the American South
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defined anyone with a trace of African ancestry as black
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Prior to 1860, southern white women
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generally lived lives that were isolated from the wider world
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In the late 1850s, many of the great landholders of the lower South were
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still first generation settlers
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During the first half of the nineteenth century, the "cotton kingdom"
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was the dominant source of the income of the lower South
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By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly _____ of the total export trade of the Untied states
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two-thirds
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Southern, white, lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in
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the mountain regions
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Southern whites who did not own slaves
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were largely dependent on the plantation economy
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Between 1840 and 1860, the American South's slave population
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dramatically shifted into the southwest
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Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum South
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Up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members
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Of the following, the most common form of resistance to slavery was
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subtle defiance
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Prior to 1860, the center of economic power in the south
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shifted from the upper South to the lower South
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To "manumit" means to
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set free
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Most white southerners owned
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no slaves
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In the 1850s, the southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women
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were like children, had an obligation to obey, and had the single right to be protected
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Rice and sugar production in the antebellum South
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were concentrated in a relatively small geographic area
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Most enslaved blacks lived
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on medium- to large- sized plantions
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Which of the following statements regarding urban slavery is FALSE
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Urban slaves were prohibited from having contact with free blacks
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Prior to 1860, free blacks in the south
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occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves
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A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was
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highly unlikely
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Prior to 1860, southern women differed from northern women in that they
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were expected to be more subordinate to men
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Tobacco cultivation in the antebellum South
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was gradually moving westward
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Though the trade and sale of slaves continued to be legal in the us until the civil war, the "slave trade," the importation of slaves from Africa or any other foreign locale, was made illegal in
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1808
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In the American slave family,
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extended kinship networks were strong and important
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Most "plain folk" of the Old South
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were substance farmers
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Sexual relationships between white southern men ans female slaves was
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a common practice
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Which of the following statements regarding slave life is true?
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After 1808, the proportion of blacks to whites in the nation steadily declined
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Which of the following statements about the poorest class of white southerners is FALSE?
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They often felt an affinity with slaves as members of another oppressed class
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The central ideology of slavery, and the vital instrument of white control, was
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paternalism
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The South failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT
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a shortage of labor
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Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included
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singing songs and playing musical instruments, such as the banjo