Chapter 11 Questions History 207A

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In the South, the paternalist ethos:
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reflected the hierarchal society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him
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Which of the following was NOT true of the South and slavery in nineteenth-century America?
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In the South as a whole, slaves made up only 10 percent of the population.
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The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons from:
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older states like Virginia to the Lower South.
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Why did southern slaves live in better conditions by the mid-nineteenth century than those in the Caribbean and South America?
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The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slaveowners to take better care of them.
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The U.S. slave population by 1860 was approximately:
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4 million
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What even is credited with helping to ingrain the paternalist ethos more deeply into the lives of southern slaveholders?
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the closing of the African slave trade?
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The term "Lord of the Loom" refers to:
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early New England factory owners.
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Which of the following stories did NOT play a central role in black Christianity?
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Noah and the ark
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Fugitive slaves:
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generally understood that the North Star led to freedom.
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Compare to slave revolts in Brazil and in the West Indies, slave revolts in the United States were:
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smaller in scale and less frequent
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John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh:
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agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good
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Task labor
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allowed slaves to take on daily jobs, set their own pace, and work on their own when they were done.
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Free blacks in the South were allowed to:
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own property
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Slave families
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were headed by women more frequently than were white families
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What did the Reverend Charles C. Jones of Georgia NOT do?
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urge an end to slavery
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Slave religion
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combined African traditions and Christian beliefs
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What was the vibrant community of former slaves freed by Virginian Richard Randolph?
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Israel Hill
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Urban slaves
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most often were domestic servants
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Which of the following statement about religious life among African-Americans in southern cities is true?
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Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches.
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Approximately how much of the world's cotton supply came from the southern United States?
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75 percent
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Jumping over a broomstick was a ceremony celebrating:
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a slave marriage
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By the late 1830s, the South's proslavery argument:
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claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress
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Historians estimate that approximately _____ slaves per year escaped to the North or Canada
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1000
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Harriet Tubman
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was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery
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The Brer Rabbit stories of slave folklore:
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celebrated how the weak could outsmart the more powerful
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Which statement about Nat Turner's Rebellion is true?
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Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion
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Which of following statements about slavery and the law is true?
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Slaves accused of serious crimes were entitled to their day in court, although they faced all-white judges and juries.
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All of the following statements are true of the work done by southern slaves EXCEPT:
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slaves worked exclusively as agricultural field hands and house servants
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In 1850, a majority of southern slaveholders owned how many slaves?
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1 to 5
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To qualify as a member of the planter class, a person had to be engaged in southern agriculture and:
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own at least twenty slaves.
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Celia was:
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a slave tried for killing her master while resisting a sexual assault
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Southern farmers in the backcountry:
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generally worked the and using family labor
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What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?
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Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvement in the North.
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"Silent sabatoge" can be defined as when slaves:
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did poor work and broke tools
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Defenders of American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830s had been a failure because
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the freed slaves grew less sugar cane, which hurt the economy of the Caribbean.
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Frederick Douglass argued that:
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slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans.
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Gender roles under slavery:
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differed from those of white society because men and women alike suffered a sense of powerlessness
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The end of slavery in most Latin American nations:
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involved gradual emancipation accompanied by recognition of powers' legal right to slave property
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In the ninetieth century product was the world's major crop produced by slave labor?
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Cotton
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Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political power:
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as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters.
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Which of the following is a true statement relative to the Upper South and the Deep South?
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Several Upper South states did not join the Confederacy at the time of the Civil War.
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From 1840 to 1860, the price of a "prime field hand":
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rose about 80 percent, which made it harder for southern whites to enter the slaveholding class.
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The plantation master had many means to maintain order among their slaves. According to the text, what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had?
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the threat of sale
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Joseph Cinquรฉ led a slave rebellion:
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aboard the Amistad
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The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers:
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benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders.
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On the plantation, the white employee in charge of ensuring a profitable crop for the plantation master was called the:
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overseer
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Bennet Barrow's advice to slaveowners on slave discipline (based on rules for slaves at his Highland Plantation in Louisiana) included all of the following EXCEPT:
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Allow slaves to grow some of their own food to cut down on costs.
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Denmark Vesey's conspiracy:
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reflected a combination of American and African influences
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Who said that the language in the Declaration of Independence--that all men were created equal and entitled to liberty--was "the most sales and dangerous of all political errors"?
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John C. Calhoun
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Which of the following was NOT true of the South and its economy in the period from 1800 to 1860?
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The South produced nearly two-fifths of the nation's manufactured goods, especially cotton textiles.
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In 1860, what percentage of southern white families were in the slave owning class?
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25 percent
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Free blacks in the United States
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sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves
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In an 1840 letter written from Canada, fugitive slave Joseph Taper asked for divine blessings upon:
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Queen Victoria
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After an 1831 slave rebellion, which stat's legislature debated, but did not approve, a plan for gradual emancipation of slaves in that state?
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Virginia