U.S. Chapter 12
What distinguished the entrepreneurial planters of the Cotton South in the 1840s and 1850s from the upper-class planters of the Old South?
A plain and simple life
How did the Chesapeake region contribute to the domestic slave trade?
By selling surplus African American slaves to the Cotton South
What was a reason that President Martin Van Buren refused to annex Texas?
He expected northern opposition to adding a slave state.
How did the domestic slave trade affect slave marriages?
It destroyed about one in every four slave marriages.
Which statement characterizes the gang-labor system of slave labor in the Lower South?
Large work crews supervised by a black driver and a white overseer
Why did the planter elite of the South face political challenges in the 1840s and 1850s?
New state constitutions opened the franchise, making it more difficult for them to dominate government.
What was the dominant pattern of marriage relationships among the smallholding yeomen of the antebellum South?
Patriarchal
Why did African American unity increase in the 1840s and 1850s?
Proposals for the re-enslavement of free blacks brought the community together.
Why did South Carolina rice planters begin to sell some of their slaves and work the others harder in the 1820s?
The competition from cheap Asian rice cut into their profit margins.
Which statement characterizes the religious practices of African American slaves in the Deep South in the early nineteenth century?
The majority of them worshiped African gods and spirits
Why did many African American slaves choose not to run away?
They did not want to leave family and kin.
In the years leading up to the Civil War, what purpose did African American naming patterns try to serve?
To bolster kinship ties
