Chapter 16 APUSH multiple choice

were often the mulatto offspring of white fathers and black mothers, were often forbidden basic civil rights, were disliked in the North and South

Before the Civil War, free blacks

in opposition to much of the rest of the Western world

In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners placed themselves

Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin the new profitability of short-staple cotton the opening of rich river bottomlands in the Gulf Coast states

The South became the Cotton Kingdom in the early nineteenth century because of

Christianity and African elements, widespread illiteracy, and subtle forms of resistance

The slave culture was characterized by a hybrid religion of

E

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to a-shipping freed black slaves back to Africa b-outlawing the salve trade c-preventing the expansion of slavery beyond the South d-forming an antislavery political party e-the immediate abolition of slavery in the South

Wendell Phillips

abolitionist golden trumpet

Elijah Lovejoy

abolitionist martyr

William Lloyd Garrison

abolitionist newspaper publisher

Frederick Douglass

black abolitionist

D

in the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was a-feigned laziness b-sabotage of plantation equipment c-running away d-armed insurrection e-stealing food and other goods

D

many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840, when they backed the presidential candidate of a-Free Soil Party b-Republican Party c-Know Nothing Party d-Liberty Party e-Anti-Masonic Party

C

the great increase of the slave population on the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to a-the reopening of the African slave trade in 1808 b-larger imports of slaves from the West Indies c-natural reproduction d-reenslavement of free blacks e-the deliberate breeding of slaves by plantation owners