Cml Ch 11

Front 1

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

Back 1

non-slave labor that is paid

Front 2

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

Back 2

Vesey and his followers killed or maimed 37 whites.

Front 3

As acts of self-empowerment, enslaved individuals often

Back 3

broke tools.

Front 4

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

Back 4

Like slaves, they had few civil or political rights.

Front 5

Which was not a job slaves occupied?

Back 5

businessman

Front 6

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

Back 6

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

Front 7

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

Back 7

confining slavery to the states in which it already existed.

Front 8

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

Back 8

marriage

Front 9

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

Back 9

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

Front 10

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

Back 10

skilled craftsman

Front 11

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

Back 11

all of the above

Front 12

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

Back 12

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

Front 13

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

Back 13

a notable indifference to gender roles

Front 14

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”:

Back 14

woven cloth

Front 15

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

Back 15

1,000

Front 16

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

Back 16

deadly assaults on slaveholders

Front 17

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

Back 17

slaves

Front 18

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

Back 18

planters in South Carolina and Mississippi.

Front 19

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

Back 19

They were given refuge in the British Caribbean.

Front 20

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

Back 20

Delaware

Front 21

Which was not a condition of slavery?

Back 21

Slaves were not allowed to carry shotguns in South Carolina.

Front 22

Nat Turner:

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

Front 23

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

Back 23

cotton

Front 24

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

Back 24

task labor.

Front 25

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

Back 25

all men are created equal and entitled to liberty.

Front 26

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

Back 26

They could own dogs and firearms.

Front 27

Whose name is most often associated with the Underground Railroad?

Back 27

Harriet Tubman

Front 28

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

Back 28

25

Front 29

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

Back 29

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

Front 30

“Slave patrols” were:

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farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.

Front 31

Which was not the case for free blacks?

Back 31

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