CHAPTER 11 Flashcards
What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?
Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.
Why could someone argue that the North was complicit in the expansion of slavery?
Northern factory demand for cotton steadily increased.
From 1800 to 1860, which of the following occurred to the South and its economy?
Because the South was a slave society, most immigrants stayed away.
Southern farmers in the backcountry:
generally worked the land using family labor.
The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers:
benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders.
To qualify as a member of the planter class, a person had to be engaged in southern agriculture and:
own at least twenty slaves.
In the South, the paternalist ethos:
reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him.
John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh:
agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good.
The end of slavery in most Latin American nations:
involved gradual emancipation accompanied by recognition of owners’ legal rights to slave property.
Free blacks in the United States:
sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves.
One study showed that how many slave men in the South did agricultural work?
90 percent.
Urban slaves:
most often were domestic servants.
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.
Slave religion:
combined African traditions and Christian beliefs.
The Brer Rabbit stories of slave folklore:
celebrated how the weak could outsmart the more powerful.
