chapter 16 people to know American history

The average price of a prime field hand by 1860 was approximately

$1,800.

The number of slaves in the South of 1860 was approximately

4 million.

American Anti-Slavery Society

Abolitionist society ,who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery

The American Colonization Society established a home for freed American slaves in the African nation of

Liberia.

Among the economic consequences of the South's cotton economy was

a dependence on the North for trade and manufacturing

The agitation in the North against the spread of slavery into the new territories in the 1840s and 1850s

often grew out of race prejudice, not humanitarianism

In opposition to William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass believed that slavery should be ended through

organizing an anti-slavery political party

All of the following represented slave attempts at resistance EXCEPT

they refused to accept their masters' religion of Christianity

All of the following were true of the mountain whites of the southern Appalachians EXCEPT

they ultimately played a significant role in supporting the Confederacy.

Slaves were often prevented from performing the most dangerous forms of labor because

they were too valuable an investment to risk losing in an accident.

Garrison, William Lloyd

was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts

Delany, Martin

was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. He was one of the first three blacks admitted to Harvard Medical School.

Douglass, Frederick

was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement from Massachusetts and New York,

Walker, David

Black abolitionist and author of the incendiary Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, which advocated a bloody end to white supremacy.

Truth, Sojourner

Black abolitionist, preacher, and women's rights activist, who worked tirelessly on behalf of slaves and freed blacks.

Turner, Nat

Black slave who led an ill-fated rebellion in Virginia in 1831. sought a violent overthrow to the sinful institution of slavery. followers murdered more than sixty whites, sending a shockwave throughout the South.

Wilberforce, William

British politician who championed the abolition of the slave trade, and later slavery itself. An evangelical Christian, Wilberforce delivered rousing speeches on the floor of the Commons, galvanizing public support for the abolitionist cause.

Culturally, many slave-owning southerners were great admirers and imitators of the

European medieval era.

In 1850, the number of southern families who owned over 100 slaves was approximately 25,000.

False

Most slave states had strictly enforced laws protecting slaves against murder or mutilation

False

Weld, Theodore Dwight

Fervent abolitionist and author of American Slavery as It Is, an antislavery tract that dramatized the horrors of slave life.

Johnson, William T.

Free New Orleans black, known as the "barber of Natchez", who eventually owned fifteen slaves.

Black Belt

Region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves. The "Black belt" emerged in the nineteenth century as cotton production became more profitable and slavery expanded south and west

In 1860, three-fourths of all white southerners owned no slaves at all.

True

Much of the fervor of the antislavery crusade derived from the religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening.

True

The South believed that Britain's economic dependence on cotton made the South politically powerful as well.

True

American Colonization Society

abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement intended as a haven for emancipated slaves

The Lane Rebels of Ohio were

antislavery seminary students who preached abolitionism after they were expelled.

The most brutal and widely criticized feature of the slave system was the

breakup of slave families through sale.

Most slave owners

cared for slaves as any asset is cared for by a prudent capitalist.

All of the following were true of the slave-owning plantation class EXCEPT

felt little sense of obligation to serve the public

American Anti-Slavery Society

founded by William Lloyd Garrison

Many northern free blacks were especially hated by Irish immigrants because

free blacks competed with the Irish for menial jobs

Mark Twain accused Walter Scott of

having had a hand in starting the Civil War

All of the following characterized slave religion EXCEPT

rejection of the evangelists of the Second Great Awakening

The bible story that played an especially large role in African American Christianity was the story of

the Israelites in Egypt.

All of the following were true of immigration in the years between 1800 and 1860 EXCEPT

the possibility of becoming wealthy slave-owners attracted many British and Irish immigrants to the South

All of the following were ultimately unsuccessful slave revolts EXCEPT

the slave revolt aboard the Amistad.