Us History Chapter 11 Quiz

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“Silent sabotage” can be defined as when slaves:

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did poor work and broke tools.

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

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Virginia

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

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slaves worked exclusively as agricultural field hands and house servants.

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

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as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters.

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Approximately how much of the world’s cotton supply came from the southern United States?

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75 percent

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Bennet Barrow’s advice to slaveowners on slave discipline (based on rules for slaves at his Highland Plantation in Louisiana) included all of the following EXCEPT:

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Allow slaves to grow some of their own food to cut down on costs.

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

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claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress.

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Celia was:

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

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

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smaller in scale and less frequent.

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

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

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Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy:

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reflected a combination of American and African influences.

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Frederick Douglass argued that:

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

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Free blacks in the South were allowed to:

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own property.

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Free blacks in the United States:

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were relatively prosperous and of mixed-race unions in New Orleans and Charleston.

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Fugitive slaves:

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generally understood that the North Star led to freedom.

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Gender roles under slavery:

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

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Harriet Tubman:

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

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

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1,000

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

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1 to 5

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

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25 percent

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

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Queen Victoria.

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In Latin American nations in the first half of the nineteenth century, an end to slavery:

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occurred in most of Spanish America and in the British empire.

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

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cotton

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In the South, the paternalist ethos:

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

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John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh:

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

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Joseph Cinqué led a slave rebellion:

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aboard the Amistad.

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Jumping over a broomstick was a ceremony celebrating:

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a slave marriage.

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

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overseer.

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Slave families:

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were headed by women more frequently than were white families.

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Slave religion:

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was a distinctive version of Christianity that offered solace to slaves in the face of hardship.

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Southern farmers in the backcountry:

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generally worked the land using family labor.

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Task labor:

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

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The Brer Rabbit stories of slave folklore:

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celebrated how the weak could outsmart the more powerful.

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The internal slave trade in the United States involved:

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more than 2 million slaves between 1820 and 1860.

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The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. What was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had?

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the threat of sale

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The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers:

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benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders.

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

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4 million.

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

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own at least twenty slaves.

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Urban slaves:

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most often were domestic servants.

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What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?

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Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.

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

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the closing of the African slave trade

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

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

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

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Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches.

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

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The Upper South had major centers of industry in Baltimore, Richmond, and St. Louis.

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

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

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

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

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Which statement about Nat Turner’s Rebellion is true?

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Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion.

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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”?

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John C. Calhoun

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

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