Question 1

Why did southern slaves live in better conditions by the mid-nineteenth century than those in the Caribbean and South America?

Accepted Answer

The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slaveowners to take better care of them.

Question 2

The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons from:

Accepted Answer

older states like Virginia to the Lower South.

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT true of the South and its economy in the period from 1800 to 1860?

Accepted Answer

The South produced nearly two-fifths of the nation's manufactured goods, especially cotton textiles.

Question 4

The South produced nearly two-fifths of the nation's manufactured goods, especially cotton textiles.

Accepted Answer

as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters.

Question 5

In 1860, what percentage of southern white families were in the slaveowning class?

Accepted Answer

25 percent

Question 6

Free blacks in the South were allowed to:

Accepted Answer

own property.

Question 7

Frederick Douglass argued that:

Accepted Answer

slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans.

Question 8

The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers:

Accepted Answer

benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders.

Question 9

Fugitive slaves:

Accepted Answer

generally understood that the North Star led to freedom.

Question 10

Gender roles under slavery:

Accepted Answer

differed from those of white society because men and women alike suffered a sense of powerlessness.

Question 11

By the late 1830s, the South's proslavery argument:

Accepted Answer

claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress.

Question 12

claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress.

Accepted Answer

Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches.

Question 13

To qualify as a member of the planter class, a person had to be engaged in southern agriculture and:

Accepted Answer

own at least twenty slaves.

Question 14

What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?

Accepted Answer

Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.

Question 15

Harriet Tubman:

Accepted Answer

was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery.

Question 16

Compared to slave revolts in Brazil and in the West Indies, slave revolts in the United States were:

Accepted Answer

smaller in scale and less frequent.

Question 17

Silent sabotage can be defined as when slaves:

Accepted Answer

did poor work and broke tools.

Question 18

On the plantation, the white employee in charge of ensuring a profitable crop for the plantation master was called the:

Accepted Answer

overseer.

Question 19

Slave families:

Accepted Answer

were headed by women more frequently than were white families.

Question 20

John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh:

Accepted Answer

agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good.

Question 21

In the nineteenth century, which product was the world's major crop produced by slave labor?

Accepted Answer

cotton

Question 22

Free blacks in the United States:

Accepted Answer

sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves.

Question 23

All of the following statements are true of the work done by southern slaves EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

slaves worked exclusively as agricultural field hands and house servants.

Question 24

Which of the following was NOT true of the South and slavery in nineteenth-century America?

Accepted Answer

In the South as a whole, slaves made up only 10 percent of the population.

Question 25

In 1850, a majority of southern slaveholders owned how many slaves?

Accepted Answer

1 to 5

Question 26

Which statement about Nat Turner's Rebellion is true?

Accepted Answer

Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion.

Question 27

Urban slaves:

Accepted Answer

most often were domestic servants.

Question 28

Slave religion:

Accepted Answer

combined African traditions and Christian beliefs.

Question 29

In the South, the paternalist ethos:

Accepted Answer

reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him.

Question 30

Defenders of American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830s had been a failure because:

Accepted Answer

the freed slaves grew less sugarcane, which hurt the economy of the Caribbean.

Question 31

The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. According to the text, what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had?

Accepted Answer

the threat of sale

Question 32

The Brer Rabbit stories of slave folklore:

Accepted Answer

celebrated how the weak could outsmart the more powerful.

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