Crash Course: Slavery #13 (Quiz)

Slaves reaffirmed their humanity through family and through ______________.

Faith

Slaves resistance to dehumanization took many forms but the primary way was by forming ______________. It was a refuge for slaves and a source of dignity that masters recognized and tried to stifle.

Families

___________ __________________ rebellion stroke terror into the hearts of whites all across the American South, as a result Virginia and other southern states made slavery worse by making harsher laws. (prevented preaching, and reading)

Nat Turner's

_____________ farmers lived self-sufficiently, worked on the poorest land and could rarely afford to buy slaves.

Yeoman

How much of the world's cotton came from the American South?

3/4

Profitability of King Cotton in the South meant that the South would remain largely ____________ and rural.

Argricultural

__________ passages were how politician like John C. Calhoun justified the insane use of slavery and outright racism.

Biblical

"In order for slavery to function, slaved had to be ________________. This enabled slave holders to rationalize what they were doing and it was hoped to reduce slaves to animal properties.'

Dehumanized

By 1860, there were over ______________ slaves in the South making them 1/3 of the population!

Four Million

There was very little ________________ in the South, producing only 10% of nation's manufactured goods.

Industry

What/Who was Jefferson referring to in his famous quote "As it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him nor let him go. Justice is in one scale and self preservation is in the other.

Jefferson was referring to slavery being a necessary evil in the South. In addition, when he made the scale analogy about justice and self preservation, he felt that self preservation was more important.

Slaves were owned and treated as _______________.

Property

Although most slaves were forbidden to learn to _______________ and write, many did anyways and some became preachers.

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