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The historian who wrote "The South grew, but did not develop" prior to the Civil War meant |
the South had failed to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy. |
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Prior to 1860, the center of economic power in the South |
shifted from the upper South to the lower South |
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Tobacco cultivation in the antebellum South |
was gradually moving westward |
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Rice and sugar production in the antebellum South |
were concentrated in a relatively small geographic area |
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Short-staple cotton |
was easier to process than long-staple cotton helped to keep the South a predominantly agricultural region. |
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During the first half of the nineteenth century, the "Cotton Kingdom" |
was the dominant source of the income of the lower South. |
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Between 1840 and 1860, the American South’s slave population |
dramatically shifted into the Southwest |
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By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly ________ of the total export trade of the United States |
two-thirds |
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By 1860, the textile manufacturing sector of the American South |
had increased threefold in value over the previous twenty years |
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The New Orleans magazine publisher, James B. D. De Bow, championed |
southern economic independence from the North, and southern commercial and agricultural growth southern economic independence from the North |
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The South failed to develop a large industrial economy for all of the following reasons EXCEPT |
shortage of labor |
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Most white southerners owned |
three to five slaves |
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In the late 1850s, many of the great landholders of the lower South were |
still first-generation settlers |
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Which of the following statements about the southern aristocratic ideal is FALSE? |
Wealthy southern whites prided themselves on their egalitarianism |
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Prior to 1860, affluent southern white women |
centered their lives in the home |
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Prior to 1860, southern women differed from northern women in that they |
were expected to be more subordinate to men |
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In the 1850s, the southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women |
were like children, had an obligation to obey, and had the single right to be protected |
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Prior to 1860, southern white women |
generally lived lives that were isolated from the wider world |
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Sexual relationships between white southern men and female slaves was |
common practice |
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Most "plain folk" of the Old South |
were subsistence farmers who owned at least one slave were subsistence farmers. |
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Southern white lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in |
the mountain regions |
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Southern whites who did not own slaves |
were largely dependent on the plantation economy. |
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Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War southern whites was their |
perception of white racial superiority |
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Which of the following statements about the poorest class of white southerners is FALSE |
They often felt affinity with slaves as members of another oppressed class |
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The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to |
slavery |
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In 1850, outside of the United States, slavery in the Western Hemisphere existed in |
Brazil |
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Within the American South, the institution of slavery |
created a unique bond between masters and slaves, while isolating blacks and whites from each other and encouraging blacks to develop a society and culture of their own. |
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The slave codes of the American South |
defined anyone with a trace of African ancestry as black |
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The conditions of a slave’s life |
depended in part on the size of the plantation |
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In general, slaves had more privacy and a social realm of their own |
on large plantations |
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Most enslaved blacks lived |
on medium- to large-size plantations |
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Which of the following statements regarding slave life is true |
After 1808, the proportion of blacks to whites in the nation steadily declined |
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Which of the following statements regarding urban slavery is FALSE |
Some urban slaves were skilled trade workers Urban slaves were prohibited from having contact with free blacks. |
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Prior to 1860, free blacks in the South |
occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves |
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To "manumit" means to |
to free |
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From the selections below, the most common form of resistance to slavery was |
subtle defiance |
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One actual slave revolt in the nineteenth-century South was led by |
Gabriel Prosser Nat Turner |
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The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was |
underground railroad |
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A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was |
highly unlikely |
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Among the features of their religion, American slaves |
often incorporated African features into their Christianity |
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As compared to nineteenth-century white practices, religious services for American slave |
were often more emotional |
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