Test 2

Question 1

When was the Antebellum Period?

Answer 1

1800-1850

Question 2

What causes cotton to become a major crop?

Answer 2

the invention of the cotton gin

Question 3

Results of the American Revolution for slavery

Answer 3

• growth of slavery slows
• many planters voluntarily emancipate their slaves
• domestic slave trade emerges and slavery quickly spreads west

Question 4

Abolitionist

Answer 4

opposed to slavery on moral grounds. Wanted immediate emancipation of slaves

Question 5

Master Paternalism

Answer 5

The master is like a father to his dependents(wife, children, and slaves). His duty is to treat his slaves in a fatherly way without giving them rights

• adequate housing, food, care, etc.
• Masters were also required to ensure the spiritual guidance and salvation of their slaves

Question 6

Reciprocal obligations

Answer 6

the slave owners took care of the slaves so in return the slaves had to be loyal and couldn’t disobey rules or run away

Question 7

How was slavery different in South America?

Answer 7

• slaves were strictly an investment
• slave owners often didn’t live on the plantation
• mortality rates of slaves were much higher

Question 8

Slave Driver

Answer 8

marched slaves out to the fields and helped the overseer supervise slaves. Could be a slave himself

Question 9

Slave’s jobs by %

Answer 9

75% field hands
15% domestic slaves(cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the master’s children)
5-10% worked as artisans or craftsmen

Question 10

Case of Celia

Answer 10

at 14 she was purchased by an owner who liked her and built her, her own cabin where he visited and raped her often. She eventually murdered him and was convicted and hanged.

Question 11

Slave religion as taught by masters

Answer 11

Planters chose the passages they read carefully.

They chose ones that encouraged slaves to the obedient so their souls would go to heaven

Question 12

Slave Resistance

Overt

Answer 12

open resistance

i.e attacking the master or running away

Question 13

Slave resistance

Silent

Answer 13

slaves would weigh down their cotton sacks with rocks and dirt

• break tools
• fake sickness

Question 14

How was a slaves work evaluated?

Answer 14

Their cotton sacks were weighed at the end of the day and they had to weigh at least so much

Question 15

Colonizationalists

Answer 15

supported gradual emancipation of slaves and sending them back to Africa

Question 16

Militant abolitionists

Answer 16

immediate emancipation and integration of former slaves