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Frederick Douglass argued that: |
slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans |
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The U.S. slave population by 1860 was approximately |
4 million |
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Which of the following was NOT true of the South and slavery in nineteenth-century America |
In the South as a whole, slaves made up only 10 percent of the population |
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In the nineteenth century, what product was the world’s major crop produced by slave labor? |
cotton |
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Approximately how much of the world’s cotton supply came from the southern United States? |
75 percent |
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The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons from: |
older states like Virginia to the Lower South |
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What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North? |
Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North. |
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The term "Lords of the Loom" refers to: |
early New England factory owners |
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Which of the following is a true statement relative to the Upper South and the Deep South? |
Several Upper South states did not join the Confederacy at the time of the Civil War. |
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Which of the following was NOT true of the South and its economy in the period from 1800 to 1860? |
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 slaveowning class? |
25 percent |
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Southern farmers in the backcountry |
generally worked the land using family labor. |
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The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers |
benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders. |
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Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political power: |
in the 1850s, as members of the small but influential southern Republican Party. |
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In 1850, a majority of southern slaveholders owned how many slaves? |
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: |
own at least twenty slaves |
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From 1840 to 1860, the price of a "prime field hand |
rose about 80 percent, which made it harder for southern whites to enter the slaveholding class. |
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What event is credited with helping to ingrain the paternalist ethos more deeply into the lives of southern slaveholders? |
the closing of the African slave trade |
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In the South, the paternalist ethos |
reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him. |
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What did the Reverend Charles C. Jones of Georgia NOT do? |
urge an end to slavery |
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By the late 1830s, the South’s proslavery argument: |
claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress. |
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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 false and dangerous of all political errors"? |
John C. Calhoun |
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The end of slavery in most Latin American nations |
involved gradual emancipation accompanied by recognition of owners’ legal rights to slave property |
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Defenders of American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830s had been a failure because |
the freed slaves grew less sugar cane, which hurt the economy of the Caribbean |
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John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh |
agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good. |
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Which of the following statements about slavery and the law is true? |
Slaves accused of serious crimes were entitled to their day in court, although they faced all-white judges and juries. |
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Celia was: |
a slave tried for killing her master while resisting a sexual assault. |
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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? |
The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slaveowners to take better care of them. |
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In an 1840 letter written from Canada, fugitive slave Joseph Taper asked for divine blessings upon: |
Queen Victoria |
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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: |
Allow slaves to grow some of their own food to cut down on costs. |
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Free blacks in the South were allowed to: |
own property |
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What was the name of the vibrant community of former slaves freed by Virginian Richard Randolph |
Israel Hill |
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Free blacks in the United States: |
sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves |
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of the following statements are true of the work done by southern slaves EXCEPT: |
slaves worked exclusively as agricultural field hands and house servants. |
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On the plantation, the white employee in charge of ensuring a profitable crop for the plantation master was called the: |
overseer. |
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Task labor |
allowed slaves to take on daily jobs, set their own pace, and work on their own when they were done. |
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Urban slaves: |
most often were domestic servants. |
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The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. According to the text, what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had? |
the threat of sale |
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Slave families |
were more common in the West Indies, where living conditions favored their formation and survival |
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Jumping over a broomstick was a ceremony celebrating |
a slave marriage |
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Gender roles under slavery |
differed from those of white society because men and women alike suffered a sense of powerlessness |
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Slave religion |
combined African traditions and Christian beliefs |
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Which of the following statements about religious life among African-Americans in southern cities is true? |
Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches |
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Which of the following stories did NOT play a central role in black Christianity |
Noah and the ark |
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The Brer Rabbit stories of slave folklore |
celebrated how the weak could outsmart the more powerful. |
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Compared to slave revolts in Brazil and in the West Indies, slave revolts in the United States were: |
smaller in scale and less frequent |
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"Silent sabotage" can be defined as when slaves |
did poor work and broke tools |
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Fugitive slaves |
generally understood that the North Star led to freedom |
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Historians estimate that approximately ____________ slaves per year escaped to the North or Canada. |
1,000 |
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Harriet Tubman |
was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery. |
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Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy |
reflected a combination of American and African influences. |
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Joseph Cinqué led a slave rebellion: |
aboard the Amistad. |
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Which statement about Nat Turner’s Rebellion is true? |
Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion |
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After an 1831 slave rebellion, which state’s legislature debated, but did not approve, a plan for gradual emancipation of slaves in that state |
Virginia |
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