Chapter 11 Quiz
In the Old South, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately
25 percent
Because of passages in the Bible about servants obeying their masters, all slaveholders firmly agreed that slavery was a legitimate institution.
False
The laws of almost all southern states recognized the legality of slaves marriages
False
The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation's leading advocate of racial equality was
Frederick Douglass
Whose name is most often associated with the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Following the Nat Turner Rebellion, the Virginia legislature discussed the possibility of abolishing slavery within the state.
True
In 1860, three of four white families owned no slaves
True
Slavery for blacks, the South declared, was the surest guarantee of "perfect equality" among whites, as they liberated them from the "low, menial" jobs like factory labor and domestic service performed by wage laborers in the North.
True
The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the South from matching northern rates of immigration, industrial development and urban growth
True
Blacks, free and slave, took part in the Great Awakening of the colonial area, and even more were swept into these southern religions during religious revivals into the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries:
baptist and methodist
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, North and South, henceforth and forever more
false
In the fifty years following the end of the international slave trade in 1808, the number of slaves in the United States fell by 50 percent
false
Slaves on cotton plantations found harsher work conditions but greater autonomy than did those on rice plantations.
false
In most Latin American nations, the end of slavery followed the pattern established earlier in the northern United States
gradual emancipation accompanied by some kind of recognition of the owner's legal right to property in slaves
Nat Turner
led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites.
Most slaves who arrived in the North as a means of escaping slavery did so
on their own initiative
By the eve of the Civil War, free blacks in the South were allowed to own
property
What was the result of the missouri court case involving the crime of Celia?
she was sentenced to death
Compared to Brazil and the West Indies, involving hundreds or even thousands of slaves, revolts in the United States were
smaller and less frequent
The "peculiar institution" of the South was
the issue of slavery
Paternalism means
the master was the head of the system, including providing his slaves with protection and the right of care and attention in their sicknesses
what happened to the 135 enslaved persons who in 1841 seized the ship, the Creole, and sailed to Nassau in search of freedom?
they were given refuge in the British Caribbean
Although dueling was illegal, many southerners took part in duels to avenge supposed insults.
true
Cotton was the major agricultural crop of the South and, indeed, the nation, but slaves also grew rice, sugarcane, tobacco, and hemp.
true
During the mid-1800's the roles of slave men and women were as divided as the roles for white men and women
true
For slaves, slavery meant constant fear that their families might be destroyed by sale, incessant toil, and brutal punishment.
true
Given the primitive nature of professional medical treatment, some whites sought out slave healers instead of trained physicians.
true
Slaveowners had many ways to enforce discipline among their slaves—from physical punishment, to material incentives, to the threat of sale.
true
the reliance on unfree labor extended to the use of renting slaves from plantation owners
true
In the mid-1800s, few plantations had dedicated buildings for slave worship so most slaves
worshipped in secret or in biracial churches with white ministers