Apush Chapter 16

As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin

slavery was reinvigorated

Members of the planter aristocracy

dominated society and politics in the South

All of the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom EXCEPT

the south reaped all the profits from the cotton trade

Plantation agriculture was wastefull largely because

its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land

Plantation mistresses

commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves

The plantation system of the Cotton South was

increasingly monopolistic

All of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system EXCEPT that

its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers

European immigration to the South was discouraged by

competition with slave labor

All told, only about_____ of white southerners owned slavers or belonged to a slaveholding family.

1/4

______ said the following quote, " I thinki we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As their main crop, southern subsistence farmers raised

corn

most white southerners were

subsistence farmers

BY 1860, three-quarters of all southern whites did not own slavers, but instead

eked out a living in the mountains and backcountry raising corn and hogs

slaves regarded the least prospersous, nonslaveholding whites as

hillbillies and poor white trash-too lazy to work

In society’s basement in the South of 1860 were nearly ___ million black human chattels

4

By the mid-nineteenth century

most slaves lived on large plantations

Unlce Tom’s Cabin was written by

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The majority of southern whites owned no slvaes because

they could not afford the purchase price

the most pro-Union of the white southerneers were

mountain whites

Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of

purchasing their way out of slavery with money earned after hours

The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to

natural reproduction

northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as

disliking the individuals but liking the race

for free blacks living in the north

discrimination was common

all of the following are true statements about free blacks EXCEPT

in the north they forged ties with the irishm, who similarly worked in menial jobs

the profitable southern slave system

hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole

regarding work assignments, slaves were

sometime spared dangerous work

slavery’s greatest psychological horror, and the theme of harriet beecher sotwe’s uncle tom’s cabin was

the enforced separation of slave families, whose members could be sold away from each other

by 1860 saves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the

deep south states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana

As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slave owners most often used the

whip as a motivator

all of the following were characteristic of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century united states EXCEPT

floggings were very uncommon and rare

in some countrie of the deep south, especially along the lower Mississippi river, blacks accounted for more than ______ percent of the population

75

By 1860, life for slaves was most difficult in the

newer states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana

forced separation of spouses, parents and children was most common

on small plantation and in the upper south

all of the following were true of slavery in the south EXCEPT that

most slaves were raised in single unstable parent households

most slaves were raised

in stable two-parents household

Slaves were denied an education because

masters believed that reading brought new ideas that might lead to their discontent

slvaes fought the system f slavery in all of the following ways EXCEPT

conducting periodic successful slave rebellions

as a resulf of white southerners’ brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions the south

developed a theory of biological racial superiority

in the pre-civil war south the most uncommon and leas successful form of flave resistance was

armed insurrection

which one of the following has the least in commonwith the other four

john quiny adams

the idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa

supported by the black leader martin Delaney

The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was

an expression of widespread American racism

in 1839, enslaved Africans rose up aboard the Spanish slave ship

Amistad

match each abolitionist below with his publication

A-2, B-4 C-3 D-1

Arrange the following in chronological order; the founding of the American Colonization Society, American Anti-Slavery Society, Liberty Party

A, B, C

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to

the immediate abolition of slavery in the south

match each abolitionist belwo with his role in the movement

A-3, B-2, C-1 D-4

many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840, when they backed the presidential candidaste of the

liberty party

the voice of white southern abolitionism fell silent at the beginning of the

1830s

proslavery whites defended the institution of slavery in all of the following ways EXCEPT

they claimed that slaves were set free once they reached old age

in arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners

placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the western world

those in the north who opposed the abolitionists believed that tehse opponents of slavery

were creating disorder in America

Varying Viewpoints, ntes that Ulrich B. Phillips made certain claims about slavery that have been challenged in recent years. Which of the following is NOT one of his conclusions?

slavery was comparable to the Nazi concentration camps

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cotton became important to the prosperity the north as well as the south became

northern merchants handled the shipping of southern cotton cotton accounted for about half the value of all united states exports after 1840

MULTIPLE
the pre-civil war south was characterized by

All of the above

MULTIPLE
Even those who did not own slaves in the pre-Civil war south supported that institution because they

dreamed of one day owning slaves themselves presumed themselves racially superior to black slaves

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before the civil war, free blacks

were often the mulatto offspring of white fathers and black mothers were often forbidden basic civil rights were disliked in the north as well as the south

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slaves were

regarded primarily as financial investments by their owners the primary form of wealth in the south profitable for their owners

MULTIPLE
the slave culture was characterized by

a hybrid religion of Christian and African elements widespread illiteracy among slaves subtle forms of resistance to slavery

MULTIPLE
after 1830, the abolitionist movement took a new, more energetic tone, encouraged by the

success of the british abolitionsits in having slavery abolished in the british west indies religious spirit of the second great awakening

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the south’s positive good argument for slavery claimed that

slavery was ; supported by the authority of both the bible and the constitution good for the barbarous Africans because enslavement introduced them to Christianity usually treated as members of the family better off than most northern wage earners

MULTIPLE
after 1830, most people in the orth

held that the constitution sanctioned slavery were alarmed by the redicaliosm of abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison