History chapter 11

The us space population by 1860 was approximately

4 million

How much of the worlds cotton supply comes from the southern us

75 percent

Celia was

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

Task labor

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

Which statement about bat turners rebellion is true

Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion

Urban slaves

Most often wede domestic servants

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

Overseer

Free blacks in the south were allowed to

Own property

What economic effect did southern slavery have in the north

Southern soavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvments in the north

Slave religion

Combined african traditions and christian beliefs

Silent sabotage can be defined as when slaves

Did poor work and broke tools

Gender roles under slavery

Differed from those of whites when slaves were able to work on their own

Lords of the loom

Early new england factory owners

Southern farmers in the backcountry

Generally worked the land using family labor

The end of slavery in most Latin American nations

Invilved gradual emancipation

What was the name of the vibrant community of former slaves freed by Virginian Richard Randolph

Isreal hill

Who said 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

John c calhoun

Paternalist wthos

Reflected the heirarchical sociwty in which the planter took responisblity for the slaves lives

Which of the following statements about slavery and the law is true

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

Frederick Douglas argued that

Slaves were truer to the principles of the declaration of independance than were most white americans

What was not work done by the southern slaves

Slaves worked exclusivly as agricultural feild hands and house servants

Free blacks in the United states

Sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves

What was the best weapon a slave owner had

Threat of sale

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

The closing of the african slave trade

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

The freed slaves grew less sugar cane which hurt the economy of the carribean

Why did southern slaves live in better conditions by the mid nineteenth century than those in the carribean and South American south

The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slavepwners to take better cate of them

Which of the following statements about religious life among African Americans in southern cities is true

Urban free blacks could worship publicly but slaves were not permitted to do so

Harriet Tubman

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

Slave families

Were headed by women more frequently than were white families