APUSH Chapter 11

The historian who wrote "The South [prior to the Civil War] grew, but did not develop" meant that

Prior to 1860, the center of economic power in the South

Tobacco cultivation in the antebellum South

Rice and sugar production in the antebellum South

Short-staple cotton

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the "cotton kingdom"

Between 1840 and 1860, the American South's slave population

By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly ________ of the total export trade of the United States.

By 1860, the textile manufacturing sector of the American South

The New Orleans magazine publisher, James B. D. De Bow, championed

The South may have failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT

In the late 1850s, many of the great landholders of the lower South were

Which of the following statements about the southern aristocratic ideal is FALSE?

Prior to 1860, affluent southern white women

Prior to 1860, southern women differed from northern women in that they

In the 1850s, the southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women

Prior to 1860, southern white women

Sexual relationships between white southern men and female slaves was

Most "plain folk" of the Old South

Most white southerners owned

Southern, white, lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in

Southern whites who did not own slaves

Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War southern whites was their

Which of the following statements about the poorest class of white southerners is FALSE?

The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to

In 1850, outside of the United States, slavery in the Western Hemisphere also existed in

Within the American South, the institution of slavery

The slave codes of the American South

Though the trade and sale of slaves continued to be legal inside the U.S. until the Civil War, the "slave trade," the importation of slaves from Africa or any other foreign locale, was made illegal in

When emancipation came after the Civil War, it was often the ________ who were the first to leave the plantation of their former owners.

Most enslaved blacks lived

Which of the following statements regarding slave life is true?

Which of the following statements regarding urban slavery is FALSE?

Prior to 1860, free blacks in the South

To "manumit" means to

Of the following, the most common form of resistance to slavery was

One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by

The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the

A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was

Regarding religion, American slaves

As compared to nineteenth-century white practices, religious services for American slaves

Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included

In the American slave family,

Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum South?

The central ideology of slavery, and the vital instrument of white control, was

The North, unlike the South, experienced great economic growth in the mid-nineteenth century.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the South underwent a much less fundamental transformation than did the North.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the center of economic power in the South shifted from the upper South to the lower South.

The South had an inadequate transportation system and only a rudimentary financial system as late as the middle of the nineteenth century.

James De Bow argued that the South should pursue agricultural development while relying on the North for industrial goods and capital.

Approximately one-third of southern whites owned slaves.

The southern planter class exercised power far in excess of its numbers.

The southern planter class was quite similar to the landed aristocracies of Europe.

Society in the antebellum South placed the plantation owner at the top of the social order.

Prior to 1860, southern aristocratic ideals were largely myths.

Southern white women had less access to education than their northern counterparts.

Southern women generally had final authority on issues related to the home and children.

The mountain regions were the only parts of the South to resist the movement toward secession when it finally developed.

In the South, small farmers, often as much as great planters, were committed to the plantation system.

In the South, the most significant opposition to the slave system came from the poorest of southern whites.

By the mid-nineteenth century, slavery in the western world existed only in the American South.

The slave system may have created separate spheres for blacks and whites, but each race was nonetheless dependent on the other.

Slave codes effectively prevented slaves from owning property.

According to some scholars, the actual material conditions of American slavery may have been better than those of some northern factory workers and better than those of both peasants and industrial workers in much of nineteenth-century Europe.

Within the slave family, women had special burdens, but also a special authority.

The nuclear family was the dominant kinship model among the slaves of the South.

Household servants were often the first to leave plantations of their former owners when emancipation came after the Civil War.

In southern cities, slave tasks might include mining, lumbering, blacksmith, or carpentry.

From the 1830s on, state laws governing slavery became gradually less rigid.

Most often, resistance to slavery took the form of open rebellion.

For the most part, slaves rejected Christianity.

Slaves were expected by their owners to attend church.

The banjo was an important instrument in slave music.

Slave spirituals were written down and passed on to generations of African Americans.

Most enslaved black couples married with formal wedding vows.

It was common for slaves to hold an entirely hostile attitude toward their owners.