US History Chapter 9 Reading Guide (T/F)
The international slave trade ended in 1808.
True
The largest cities were in the North.
True
The ownership of slaves transformed a housewife into a lady.
True
The plantation economy of the South resulted in an unequal distribution of wealth.
True
The task system encouraged slaves to work hard without supervision.
True
Under the task system in the eighteenth century, a slave was expected to tend four acres of rice daily.
True
When the international slave trade ended, an internal slave trade developed.
True
The Hammond Quarterly was the principal southern business journal.
False
The Lowcountry was not a center of plantation slavery.
False
The most intensely commercialized farms in the world were found in the Chesapeake.
False
Between 1780 and 1810, the slave population in Virginia saw a decrease in free blacks but an increase in enslaved blacks.
False
Between 1790 and 1850, the southern planters became more dependent on Spain.
False
By 1860, the U.S. South produced four-fifths of the world supply of cotton.
False
Chesapeake slaves had the lowest reproduction rate among all slaves.
False
In 1790 the future of the plantation was in doubt due to the fall in value of tobacco.
False
In 1820, rice planters in the low country faced an optimistic future.
False
In 1860, the southern slave population was collectively worth $1.3 billion.
False
In southern yeoman farm communities, slaves did most of the fieldwork.
False
In the Chesapeake slave system a majority of women worked as domestic servants.
False
Prior to 1820, blacks and whites in the Chesapeake attended church together.
True
Slave rebellions had little chance of success in the southern United States because plantations were relatively small and dispersed.
True
Slaveholders were committed to paternalism that sought to make slaves Christian.
True
Slaves in the cotton belt worked longer and harder than slaves in the Chesapeake.
True
Slaves were able to negotiate and gain privileges.
True
At Thomas Jefferson's Monticello slave children were sold as soon as they could work.
False
Among white southern families one's reputation was more important than wealth.
True
Between 1800 and 1860, the percentage of the southern workforce engaged in agriculture increased.
True
By 1834, the cotton belt produced more than half of the cotton in the United States.
True
By the Civil War three out of four white southern families did not own a single slave.
True
Compared to long-staple cotton, short-staple cotton was more hardy.
True
Cotton belt planters did little to improve the cultivation of cotton.
True
Denmark Vesey was betrayed by slaves.
True
Diseases on southern coastal plantations kept masters and overseers out of the fields.
True
Few yeoman farmers in the south were wholly subject to market fluctuations.
True
In 1860, the value of southern slaves exceeded the investments in banking, railroads, and manufacturing combined.
True
In slave kinship, nonrelatives were called "brother," "sister," "aunt," and "uncle."
True
In the cotton belt few planters retained the task system.
True
In the early nineteenth century, Georgia rice planters were among the richest Americans.
True
Misbehaving antebellum southern wives damaged the reputation of their husbands.
True
North American slaves seldom went into organized, armed revolt.
True
