History Chapter 16

floggings were very uncommon and rare.

All of the following were characteristic of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century United States except

most slaves were raised in single unstable parent households.

All of the following were true of slavery in the South except that

slavery was reinvigorated in the South.

As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin

corn

As their main agricultural crop, southern subsistence farmers raised

eked out a living in the mountains and backcountry raising corn and hogs.

By 1860, the overwhelming majority of all southern whites did not own slaves, but instead

discrimination against blacks concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public education was common.

For free blacks living in the North

Amistad

In 1839, enslaved Africans rose up aboard the Spanish slave ship

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In some counties of the deep South, especially along the lower Mississippi River, blacks accounted for more than ____ percent of the population.

A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1

Match each abolitionist below with his publication. A. William Lloyd Garrison 1. Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World B. Theodore Dwight Weld 2. The Liberator C. Frederick Douglass 3. Narration of the Life of ____ D. David Walker 4. American Slavery as It Is

dominated society and politics in the South.

Members of the planter aristocracy

in stable two-parent households.

Most slaves were raised

subsistence farmers.

Most white southerners were

its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land.

Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because

commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.

Plantation mistresses

supported by the black leader Martin Delaney.

The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was

mountain whites residing in the Appalachian range.

The most pro-Union of the white southerners were

resembled a tightly controlled oligarchy in its monopolistic features.

The plantation system of the Cotton South before the Civil War

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852 by

John C. Calhoun

Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four?

the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to