APUSH 12

Which of these factors explained the surplus of slaves in the Chesapeake region in the early nineteenth century?

Population growth through natural reproduction

What prevented white southerners from working to diversify their economy in the nineteenth century?

Wealthy planters believed that the plantation economy would continue to produce wealth indefinitely

The U.S. federal government participated in the expansion of slavery during the early to mid-1800s through which of the following?

The Indian Removal Act

Which of the following statements describes the institution of slavery in the nineteenth-century South?

About 5 percent of southern whites owned 50 percent of the South's slave population

Slaves' practice of "taking root" involved which of the following?

Building the best possible lives for themselves as slaves

By 1860, the majority of African Americans lived and worked as slaves in which of the following regions?

Deep South

In the cotton-growing regions of the South, which of the following was true of the gang-labor system of work?

Gang-labor depended upon the work of white overseers and black drivers.

Many African American slaves who converted to Christianity compared themselves to which of the following groups?

Jews

The notion of slavery as a "necessary evil" and a "positive good" was supported by which idea?

Slavery allowed a civilized lifestyle for whites and cared for genetically inferior blacks

The cotton boom that began in the 1810s set which of the following results in motion?

The redistribution of the African American population

Why was the domestic slave trade crucial to the southern economy?

The trade provided tens of thousands of new workers to build plantations.

Which of the following statements was true of the American South in 1860?

The vast majority of southern white families did not own any slaves.

Which of the following is true of free blacks in the South?

They became the backbone of the South's urban artisan workforce.

Which of these factors made enslaved African Americans reluctant to attempt to escape to the North?

They hesitated to leave their families and communities behind

Children born in slave communities in the nineteenth-century South often shared which of these characteristics?

They were named after family members.

Under the task system, slaves were required to

complete a precisely defined job each day.

In the nineteenth-century South, free blacks lived primarily

in the coastal cities and the Upper South.

The domestic slave trade affected the African American family unit before 1865 by

separating family members through sale and trade