9: Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

Question 1

Fill in the blank: In 1790, 1,000 tons of cotton were being produced every year in the South. By 1860 it was _______

Answer 1

1,000,000

Question 2

Fill in the blank: “With slavery abolished by order of the government. . . its end could be orchestrated so as to set limits to ________”

Answer 2

Emancipation

Question 3

In which year did slave importation become illegal?

Answer 3

1808

Question 4

Historian John Hope Franklin estimated that this number of slaves were imported illegally before the civil war?

Answer 4

250,000

Question 5

True or False: Slave revolts in the United States were larger and more frequent than those in the Caribbean islands or in South America

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Fill in the blank: W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, about one slave who refused to become the consistent workhorse expected of him, that “thus he was easily accused of laziness and driven as a slave when in truth he brought to modern manual labour a renewed valuation of ____”

Answer 6

Life

Question 7

The largest probable slave rebellion in the U.S., taking place near New Orleans at the plantation of Major Andry, consisted of this many slaves

Answer 7

400-500 with numbers growing from plantation to plantation as they marched

Question 8

This violent revolt saw 55 whites killed at various plantations and was led by Nat Turner

Answer 8

The Southhampton Slave Revolt of 1831

Question 9

True or False: Poor whites helped slaves infrequently

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What was one tactic used for slave control involving poor whites

Answer 10

Paying them to be overseers of black labour

Question 11

Despite prevailing thought that slavery destroyed the black family and left blacks without kinship, this occured

Answer 11

The slave community acted like a generalized extended kinship system in which all adults looked after all children

Question 12

Lawrence Levine refers to slave resistance as what? (hint: it was expressed in daily life, music, magic, art, religion)

Answer 12

Pre-political

Question 13

There were 200,000 of these in the North in 1850

Answer 13

Free blacks

Question 14

Who wrote the words “. . . what man can make, man can unmake”

Answer 14

Frederick Douglass

Question 15

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made it easy for slaveowners to recapture ex-slaves in return for this

Answer 15

the Mexican war territories admissions into the Union as nonslave states

Question 16

Frederick Douglass, July 4th, 1852: “There is not a Nation of the earth guilty of practices more ______ and _______ than are the people of these United States at this very hour”

Answer 16

Shocking and bloody

Question 17

This white man hatched a crazy plan to seize the Federal arsenal in Virginia and set off a slave revolt in the South (it did not work, he was hanged)

Answer 17

John Brown

Question 18

True or False: Andrew Jackson’s administration collaborated with the South to keep abolitionist literature out of the mails of Southern States

Answer 18

True

Question 19

What did the Supreme Court decide in 1857 about slave Dred Scott?

Answer 19

He could not sue for his freedom because he was property and not a person

Question 20

Who said the following: “I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races”

Answer 20

Abraham Lincoln

Question 21

What did Abraham Lincoln say about abolishing slavery in his first inaugural address (1861)

Answer 21

“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so”

Question 22

When Lincoln issued his preliminary emancipation proclamation in 1862, what was promised therein?

Answer 22

Slavery would be left untouched in states that came over to the North

Question 23

Which amendment declared an end to slavery?

Answer 23

13th

Question 24

The Civil war was one of the bloodiest in history at the time, with this many dead

Answer 24

600,000

Question 25

How many slaves escaped during the civil war?

Answer 25

Half a million (1 in 5)

Question 26

The “Negro Soldier Law enacted by the confederacy never had much effect because it was enacted when?

Answer 26

Soon before the soon ended

Question 27

True or False: Under congressional policy approved by Lincoln, property confiscated during the civil war under the confiscation act would be distributed to the newly freed slaves

Answer 27

False, it would revert to the heirs of the confederate owners

Question 28

Georgia land set aside for Negroes by the special Field Order No. 15 issued by General William T. Sherman, was restored to Confederate owners by this president in 1865

Answer 28

Andrew Johnson

Question 29

The American government had set out to fight the slave states in 1861, not to end slavery, but to do this

Answer 29

Retain the enormous national territory and market and resources

Question 30

True or false: For a brief period after the civil war, southern Negros voted, elected blacks to state legislatures and to Congress, and introduced free and racially mixed public education to the south

Answer 30

True

Question 31

The 14th amendment did this

Answer 31

Repudiated the prewar Dred Scott decision by declaring “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” citizens. (Also says no state will deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process or law; nor deny any person equal protection of the laws)

Question 32

Describe the 15th amendment

Answer 32

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

Question 33

True or False: Laws passed in the 1860s and 70s gave blacks the right to enter contracts and buy property without discrimination

Answer 33

True

Question 34

This President resisted progressive civil rights legislation after the Civil Wae

Answer 34

Andrew Johnson (VP under Lincoln)

Question 35

White violence against blacks became common after the civil war, spearheaded by this terrorist organization

Answer 35

The Ku Klux Klan

Question 36

Which act was nullified by the Supreme Court in 1883?

Answer 36

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Question 37

Which Supreme Court Justice (a former slave owner) dissented against rulings weakening the anti-discriminatory powers of the 14th amendment and the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson which ruled that a railroad could segregate black and white if the segregated facilities were equal

Answer 37

Justice John Harlan

Question 38

Describe the Compromise of 1877

Answer 38

Rutherford Hayes, the Republican candidate, was given the votes needed to be President, in return the government provided economic support and political autonomy to Southern elites (freeing land for speculators, subsidizing railroads, allowing racially discriminatory laws to be passed)

Question 39

What spurred the compromise of 1877?

Answer 39

Economic depression

Question 40

In his 1935 book Black Reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois compared the new capitalism emerging in the late 19th century to a new type of this

Answer 40

Slavery