Chapter 11 Flashcards
What cleared the way for eastern people to resettle in the Deep South?
Indian Removal Act of 1830
By 1860, cotton exports made up ____ of all American exports.
60%
Which of the following numbers is closest to the number of enslaved people living in the
South in 1860?
4 million
In the decades before the Civil War, between one-fifth and one-third of all slave marriages
were broken up via _________.
Sale or forced migration
What was the impact of Nat Turner’s rebellion?
All the above
All the following southern following crops required cities to facilitate export, marketing,
and/or storage EXCEPT:
Not cotton
Where was the Southern middle class the strongest?
Southern cities
In which region was ethnic homogeneity the strongest among enslaved people?
Coastal South Carolina
Which African country was founded by African Americans?
Liberia
Why did Celia kill her enslaver?
To escape rape
What happened to Nat Turner?
Executed
How did evangelicalism influence racial relations in the U.S. South?
Created bi-racial congregations not not not not not not
What was the function of southern dueling?
Preserving the honor of both participants
Which of the following best describes the relationship of femininity and domesticity in the
South?
Domesticity limited the opportunities of wealthy white women to engage in the
public sphere
In a world of racialized violence and dominance, southern society sought to protect the
sexual purity of
White women
