Give Me Liberty Ch. 11 Quiz

Slaves had many ways to quietly resist the power of the slave owners, including feigning illness, wrecking tools, and performing inadequate labor.

Slaves made up a significant portion of the Old South's

The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation's leading advocate of racial equality was

Which was NOT the case for free blacks?

In 1860, three out of four white families owned no slaves.

By 1860, more than half of the United States' exports were in

The laws of almost all southern states recognized the legality of slave marriages.

By the mid-nineteenth century (1800s), all states had made it illegal to kill a slave except in self-defense.

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In the years before the Civil War, the wealthiest Americans were

Slaveowners had many ways to enforce discipline among their slaves—from physical punishment, to material incentives, to the threat of sale.

By 1860, economic investment in the United States in slaves exceeded the total economic investment in the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined.

John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered the most false and dangerous of all political errors the view that

Following Nat Turner' Rebellion, the Virginia legislature discussed the possibility of abolishing slavery within the state.

In the Old South, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately

Slaves knew little of Christianity or the Bible, and slave masters usually withheld access to religion from their enslaved labor.

In the fifty years following the end of the international slave trade in 1808, the number of slaves in the United States fell by 50 percent.

Approximately how many enslaved individuals ran away to the North each year?

After a brief period of apprenticeship, the end of slavery in Britain came on August 1, 1838.

For slaves, slavery meant constant fear that their families might be destroyed by sale, incessant toil, and brutal punishment.

Which of the following was NOT a frequent mode of slave resistance?

Whose name is most often associated with the Underground Railroad?

Which was not a condition of slavery?

The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the South from matching northern rates of immigration, industrial development, and urban growth.

Separated by large gaps in wealth and breeding, planters and poorer whites of the Old South seldom found anything in common.

Fortunately, most adult slaves married, and their unions, when not disrupted by sale, typically lasted for a lifetime.

In 1850, most slaveowning families owned five or fewer slaves.

In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in

As acts of self-empowerment, enslaved individuals often

Labor on rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia was generally done by

Which was NOT a job slaves occupied?

Which is NOT part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey?

During the early to mid-1800s, sugar produced in the slave South was America's leading export.

In American slave culture, jumping over a broomstick was associated with which of the following acts?

Which of the following was NOT a feature of slave culture?

The Underground Railroad ran on steel tracks (after its iron ones were replaced) that were generally hidden in forest growth.

In 1860, the South as a whole produced less than 10 percent of the nation's manufactured goods.

What happened to the 135 enslaved persons who in 1841 seized the ship the Creole and sailed to Nassau in search of freedom?

Cotton was the major agricultural crop of the South and, indeed, the nation, but slaves also grew rice, sugarcane, tobacco, and hemp.

In the midst of the American antebellum era, the British Parliament launched a program for abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire in 1831.