Chapter 15
On what basis did John Quincy Adams, "Old Man Eloquent," protest the "gag rule" concerning abolition petitions?
It violated the First Amendment
The efforts of the American Colonization Society resulted in the creation of the African nation of
Liberia
In the antebellum period, which of the following was in the Old Southwest?
Mississippi
Southerners used all of the following to justify slavery EXCEPT
Thomas Jefferson's words in the Declaration of Independence
Life in the Old Southwest was characterized by
all of the above
In Charleston, blacks outnumbered whites, leaving the ruling elite
almost hysterically determined to quash any slave uprising
The Old Southwest
attracted thousands of settlers in the 1820s and 1830s with its promise of cotton production
By the 1830s, most Baptists and Methodists in the South
defended slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
demanded immediate emancipation of slaves
Sarah and Angelina Grimké
demanded women's rights as well as abolition
If poor southern whites seemed lazy it was likely because of
dietary deficiencies and diseases like hookworm
In the antebellum period, southerners viewed their region as
distinctive from the rest of the country
Despite a great diversity of origins in the colonial population, the South
drew few overseas immigrants after the Revolution
One agricultural problem southerners increasingly faced was
exhaustion of the soil
The plantation mistress
generally confronted a double standard in terms of moral and sexual behavior
By 1860, slavery was most concentrated
in the Lower South
By the antebellum period, all of the following remained significant staple crops in the South EXCEPT
indigo
The slave revolt led by Nat Turner
killed dozens of whites before its suppression
All of the following are true about Sojourner Truth, EXCEPT that she
killed her master to escape from slavery
Slave religion
mixed African and Christian elements
Slave women
often worked in the fields
What portion of the South's white families owned slaves?
one fourth
Southern planters
owned at least twenty slaves
The major reason the South did not industrialize was that
plantation slavery was quite profitable
The movie Gone with the Wind
presents a mythic view of the Old South
Gullah refers to the
slave culture of coastal Georgia and South Carolina
By the 1830s, John C. Calhoun was arguing that
slavery was a "positive good"
Free blacks in the South
sometimes owned slaves
The frequency of dueling in the South was probably caused by
southerners' exalted sense of honor
The debate over slavery
split Methodists and Baptists into northern and southern denominations
Plantation mistresses
supervised the domestic household
Small farmers in the South
supported white supremacy
Because of the dominance of agriculture, the South was becoming increasingly dependent upon
the North
The focus on cotton and other cash crops has obscured the degree to which
the antebellum South fed itself from its own fields
Slave owners in the antebellum South acquired additional slaves from
the domestic slave trade
The killing of Elijah Lovejoy showed
the rampant racism in the North
William Lloyd Garrison
was accused by slaveholders of stirring up the unrest that led to Nat Turner's insurrection
The Tredegar Iron Works
was the most important single manufacturing enterprise in the Old South
Slave rebellions in the South
were sometimes betrayed before they started
Frederick Douglass
wrote a famous account of his life as a slave
