Gml 11

Front 1

As acts of self-empowerment, enslaved individuals often

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broke tools.

Front 2

Slaves made up a significant portion of the Old South’s:

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field laborers.
house servants.
skilled artisans.
*all of the above*

Front 3

John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered “the most false and dangerous of all political errors,” the view that:

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all men are created equal and entitled to liberty.

Front 4

By 1860, more than half of the United States’ exports were in:

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cotton.

Front 5

Which of the following was not a part of slavery’s impact on the northern economy?

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Slave labor in the southern cotton belt undermined cotton production in the North.

Front 6

In the quotation, “Exalting the superiority of northern society based on ‘free labor,’ ” define “free labor”:

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non-slave labor that is paid

Front 7

Labor on rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia was generally done by:

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task labor.

Front 8

Which of the following was not true of the plain white folk of the Old South?

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Like slaves, they had few civil or political rights.

Front 9

The newly created Republican Party of the 1850s was dedicated to:

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confining slavery to the states in which it already existed.

Front 10

Which of the following was not a central theme of planter ideology?

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There is no place for fixed social hierarchies in a democratic republic.

Front 11

Which was not a restriction on free blacks in the Old South?

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They could own dogs and firearms.

Front 12

Define “planter” as used in this and other chapters of this book in such phrases as “southern planters were successful.”

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the owner or manager of a plantation who himself rarely if ever did the actual physical labor associated with plowing or harvesting crops

Front 13

Whose name is most often associated with the Underground Railroad?

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Harriet Tubman

Front 14

Which was not a job slaves occupied?

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businessman

Front 15

The southern state with the largest free black population in relation to its total African American population was?

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Delaware

Front 16

“Slave patrols” were:

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farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.

Front 17

In the Old South, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately:

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25 percent.

Front 18

Nat Turner:

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led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites.

Front 19

The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation’s leading advocate of racial equality was:

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Frederick Douglass.

Front 20

In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in:

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slaves.

Front 21

Which of the following was not a frequent mode of slave resistance?

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deadly assaults on slaveholders

Front 22

“In southern cities, thousands of slaves were employed as skilled artisans.” Define “artisan”:

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skilled craftsman

Front 23

Which was not the case for free blacks?

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Most free blacks rose to the status of skilled, middle-class workers.

Front 24

What happened to the 135 enslaved persons who in 1841 seized the ship, the Creole, and sailed to Nassau in search of freedom?

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They were given refuge in the British Caribbean.

Front 25

In American slave culture, jumping over a broomstick was associated with which of the following acts?

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marriage

Front 26

In the years before the Civil War, the wealthiest Americans were:

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planters in South Carolina and Mississippi.

Front 27

Which was not a condition of slavery?

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Slaves were not allowed to carry shotguns in South Carolina.

Front 28

Which of the following does not apply to the comparative experience of slaves and free blacks in the Old South?

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Between 1800 and 1860 the material conditions of free blacks steadily improved, while those of slaves steadily deteriorated.

Front 29

Which of the following was not a feature of slave culture?

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a notable indifference to gender roles

Front 30

Approximately how many enslaved individuals ran away to the North each year?

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1,000

Front 31

Cotton was “King” during the first half of the nineteenth century. Three-fourths of the world’s supply came from the United States, and textile manufacturers in New England, Great Britain, France, and Russia depended on the American cotton supply. Define “textile”:

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woven cloth

Front 32

Which is not part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey?

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Vesey and his followers killed or maimed 37 whites.