History 160 Chapter 13

Which of the following was the most common way slaves reacted to their bondage?

Why were open slave revolts uncommon in the South?

What percentage of nonslaveholding rural white men were landless and very poor?

.African American Christianity, created by slaves themselves,

How did yeomen in the plantation belt of the South feel about wealthy planters?

.Most plantation mistresses kept their opinions on issues to themselves, but the diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut echoed most women in railing against

After 1820, what caused slavery to become more profitable, which in turn increased the South's political power?

Elite Southerners maintained their power over the yeoman majority by

.Which staple crop was grown almost exclusively along a narrow strip of coast stretching from the Carolinas into Georgia?

How important was agriculture to the economy of the North?

.How did the institution of slavery affect social relations in the South?

What happened to slave men when they became elderly?

Most free blacks in the antebellum South

How did powerful whites defend slavery from attacks by critics?

Which statement describes the daily lives of southern women on the plantation

In 1860, the largest number of white Southerners

How did white Virginians respond to the violence of Nat Turner's rebellion?

What was the primary cause of the growth in the southern slave population between 1790 and 1869?

Which statement characterizes white Southerners in the antebellum South

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the major differences between the North and South revolved around

How did slaves manipulate planters' emphasis on paternalism?

The rarest job on the plantation for slaves was that of driver, the person who

In 1790, there were fewer than 700,000 slaves in the South; by 1860 that number had increased to about

.Which statement characterizes the religion of southern plain folk?

What was a consequence of the South's lack of economic diversity?

Most upcountry yeomen focused on cultivating

The economy of the upcountry South depended on

As the price of slaves continued to rise, masters began to treat their slaves marginally better because

According to South Carolina political leader John C. Calhoun, what happened in states where slavery was abolished?

What did plantation owners mean when they described the master-slave relationship in terms of "paternalism?"