Chapter 11
The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation's leading advocate of racial equality was a. Frederick Douglass. b. Harriet Tubman. c. Abraham Lincoln. d. Nat Turner.
a. Frederick Douglass.
Blacks, free and slave, took part in the Great Awakening of the colonial area, and even more were swept into these southern religions during religious revivals into the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries: a. Baptist and Methodist b. Jehovah's Witness and Episcopalian c. Deist and Mormon d. Catholic and Lutheran
a. Baptist and Methodist
By the eve of the Civil War, free blacks in the South were allowed to own a. property. b. guns. c. dogs. d. alcohol.
a. property.
Which is not part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey? a. His lieutenant was named Gullah Jack. b. Vesey and his followers killed or maimed 37 whites. c. Vesey studied the Bible and quoted the Declaration of Independence. d. Vesey had purchased his freedom after winning the lottery.
b. Vesey and his followers killed or maimed 37 whites.
The southern state with the highest population of free blacks was a. Missouri. b. Virginia. c. Texas. d. Tennessee.
b. Virginia.
"Slave patrols" were a. mixed-race patrols of whites and blacks who worked together to harvest cotton crops. b. farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves. c. groups of slaves that patrolled the roads and towns, picking up trash to keep the roadsides and urban areas clean. d. railroad workers who patrolled plantations looking for contraband on which tariffs had not been paid.
b. farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.
In American slave culture, jumping over a broomstick was associated with which of the following acts? a. freedom b. marriage c. divorce d. escape
b. marriage
In the Old South, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately a. 10 percent. b. 40 percent. c. 25 percent. d. 60 percent.
c. 25 percent.
In 1839, fifty-three slaves took control of this ship in an attempt to reroute to Africa. a. Creole b. Dephaina c. Amistad d. Beauregard
c. Amistad
In most Latin American nations, the end of slavery followed the pattern established earlier in the northern United States— a. an immediate reversal of slave laws with the guarantee of land for each male ex-slave. b. an immediate return of slaves to their former masters so they might receive compensation for their years of service. c. gradual emancipation accompanied by some kind of recognition of the owners' legal right to property in slaves. d. gradual emancipation accompanied by safe travel to the newly created country of Mexico.
c. gradual emancipation accompanied by some kind of recognition of the owners' legal right to property in slaves.
In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in a. factories. b. railroads. c. slaves. d. banks.
c. slaves.
The Second Middle Passage was a. international slave trade from areas not linked to Africa. b. the movement of slaves from the United States to the free regions in Canada. c. the slave trade from the older states to the Lower South. d. the slave trade from the Caribbean to the Upper South.
c. the slave trade from the older states to the Lower South.
In the mid 1800s, few plantations had dedicated buildings for slave worship so most slaves a. shunned the Christian religion as it was seen as part of white society. b. kept close ties to their African religions, sacrificing animals in secret. c. worshipped in secret or in biracial churches with white ministers. d. did not form religious communities.
c. worshipped in secret or in biracial churches with white ministers.
The Virginia writer George Fitzhugh believed that slaves and slaveowners shared a "community of interest." Yet since the slaves lacked economic cares a. "their focus would always be on the arts, such as weaving, sewing, and carpentry." b. "the slaves were miserable and lived within wretched constraints of society." c. "they would never been bound for ciphering and any mathematical position." d. "the slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some degree, the freest people in the world."
d. "the slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some degree, the freest people in the world."
By 1860, more than half of the United States' exports were in a. steel. b. iron. c. slaves. d. cotton.
d. cotton.
Henry "Box" Brown escaped slavery by a. falsifying documents stating his stagecoach was carrying equipment bound for free territory. b. packing himself in between cotton bales and arriving in New York, where he was considered a free man. c. impersonating a sailor and sailing to British Caribbean. d. shipping himself in a crate from Georgia to the North.
d. shipping himself in a crate from Georgia to the North.
Compared to Brazil and the West Indies, involving hundreds or even thousands of slaves, revolts in the United States were a. about the same. b. much larger. c. exponentially larger and encompassed a much larger area. d. smaller and less frequent.
d. smaller and less frequent.
Because of passages in the Bible about servants obeying their masters, all slaveholders firmly agreed that slavery was a legitimate institution. True or False?
false
The Civil War did not provide any opportunities for mass slave escapes. True or False?
false
The Underground Railroad ran on steel tracks (after its iron ones were replaced) that were generally hidden in forest growth. True or False?
false
A small number of African-Americans owned slaves in the Old South. True or False?
true
By 1860, the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined. True or False?
true
By the mid-nineteenth century, all states had made it illegal to kill a slave except in self-defense. True or False?
true
Slaves had many ways to "quietly" resist the power of the slaveowners—from feigning illness, to wrecking tools, to performing inadequate labor. True or False?
true
The reliance on unfree labor extended to the use of renting slaves from plantation owners. True or False?
true
