Chapter 11

Question 1

After an 1831 slave rebellion, which state’s legislature debated, but did not approve, a plan for gradual emancipation of slaves in that state?

Answer 1

Virginia

Question 2

All of the following statements are true of the work done by southern slaves EXCEPT:

Answer 2

Slaves worked exclusively as agricultural field hands and house servants

Question 3

Andrew Jackson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political power:

Answer 3

As self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters

Question 4

By the late 1830s, the South’s proslavery argument:

Answer 4

Claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress

Question 5

To qualify as a member of the planter class, a person had to be engaged in southern agriculture and :

Answer 5

Own at least twenty slaves

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT true of the South and its economy in the period from 1800 to 1860?

Answer 6

The South produced nearly two-fifths of the nation’s manufactured goods, especially cotton textiles

Question 7

Celia was:

Answer 7

A slave tried for killing her master while resisting a sexual assault

Question 8

Compared to slave revolts in Brazil and in the West Indies, slave revolts in the United States were:

Answer 8

Smaller in scale and less frequent

Question 9

Defenders of American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830s had been a failure because:

Answer 9

The freed slaves grew less sugarcane, which hurt the economy of the Caribbean

Question 10

Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy:

Answer 10

Reflected a combination of American and African influences

Question 11

Frederick Douglass argued that:

Answer 11

Slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans

Question 12

Free blacks in the South were allowed to:

Answer 12

Own property

Question 13

Free blacks in the United States:

Answer 13

Sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves

Question 14

From 1840 to 1860, the price of a “prime field hand”:

Answer 14

Rose about 80 percent, which made it harder for southern whites to enter the slaveholding class

Question 15

Fugitive slaves:

Answer 15

Generally understood that the North Star led to freedom

Question 16

Gender roles under slavery:

Answer 16

Differed from those of white society because men and women alike suffered a sense of powerlessness

Question 17

Harriet Tubman:

Answer 17

Was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery

Question 18

Historians estimate that approximately ______ slaves per year escaped to the North or Canada

Answer 18

1,000

Question 19

In 1850, a majority of southern slaveholders owned how many slaves?

Answer 19

1 to 5

Question 20

In 1860, what percentage of southern white families were in the slaveowning class?

Answer 20

25 percent

Question 21

In an 1840 letter written from Canada, fugitive slave Joseph Taper asked for divine blessings upon:

Answer 21

Queen Victoria

Question 22

In the nineteenth century, which product was the world’s major crop produced by slave labor?

Answer 22

Cotton

Question 23

In the South, the paternalist ethos:

Answer 23

Reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him

Question 24

John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh:

Answer 24

Agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good

Question 25

Jumping over a broomstick was a ceremony celebrating

Answer 25

A slave marriage

Question 26

On the eve of the Civil War, approximately how much of the world’s cotton supply came from the southern United States?

Answer 26

75 percent

Question 27

On the plantation, the white employee in charge of ensuring a profitable crop for the plantation master was called the:

Answer 27

Overseer

Question 28

Slave families:

Answer 28

Were headed by women more frequently than were white families

Question 29

Slave religion:

Answer 29

Combined African traditions and Christian beliefs

Question 30

Southern farmers in the backcountry:

Answer 30

Generally worked the land using family labor

Question 31

Task labor:

Answer 31

Allowed slaves to take on daily jobs, set their own pace, and work on their own when they were done

Question 32

The Brer Rabbit stories of slave folklore:

Answer 32

Celebrated how the weak could outsmart the more powerful

Question 33

The end of slavery in most Latin American nations

Answer 33

Involved gradual emancipation accompanied by recognition of owners’ legal rights to slave property

Question 34

The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons from:

Answer 34

Older states like Virginia to the Lower South

Question 35

The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. According to the text, what was the most powerful weapon the plantation master had?

Answer 35

The threat of sale

Question 36

The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers:

Answer 36

Benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders

Question 37

The slave rebellion aboard the Amistad:

Answer 37

Led to a Supreme Court decision freeing the slaves

Question 38

The term “Lords of the Loom” refers to:

Answer 38

Early New England factory owners

Question 39

The U.S. slave population by 1860 was approximately:

Answer 39

4 million

Question 40

Urban slaves:

Answer 40

Most often were domestic servants

Question 41

What did the Reverend Charles C. Jones of Georgia NOT do?

Answer 41

Urge an end to slavery

Question 42

What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?

Answer 42

Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North

Question 43

What was the name of the vibrant community of former slaves freed by Virginian Richard Randolph?

Answer 43

Israel Hill

Question 44

Which event is credited with helping to ingrain the paternalist ethos more deeply into the lives of southern slaveholders?

Answer 44

The closing of the African slave trade

Question 45

Which of the following is a true statement relative to the Upper South and the Deep South?

Answer 45

Several Upper South states did not join the Confederacy at the time of the Civil War

Question 46

Which of the following statements about religious life among African-Americans in southern cities is true?

Answer 46

Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches

Question 47

Which of the following statements about slavery and the law is true?

Answer 47

Slaves accused of serious crimes were entitled to their day in court, although they faced all-white judges and juries

Question 48

Which of the following stories did NOT play a central role in black Christianity?

Answer 48

Noah and the ark

Question 49

Which of the following was NOT true of the South and slavery in nineteenth-century America?

Answer 49

In the South as a whole, slaves made up only 10 percent of the population

Question 50

Which state had the least amount of free blacks?

Answer 50

Mississippi

Question 51

While the North emphasized egalitarianism, the South stressed:

Answer 51

A code of honor

Question 52

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”?

Answer 52

John C. Calhoun

Question 53

Why did southern slaves live in better conditions by the mid-nineteenth century than those in the Caribbean and South America?

Answer 53

The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slaveowners to take better care of them

Question 54

“Silent sabotage” can be defined as when slaves:

Answer 54

Did poor work and broke tools