chapter 16

by 1860 what percentage of white southern families owned slaves?

25%

which of the following statements accurately describes the upper south and the lower south?

After about 1830, both were united in their defense of slavery.

in 1839, enslaved Africans rose up aboard the Spanish slave ship

Amistad

Who led the 1831 rebellion in Southampton County, VA that terrified the South for generations?

Nat Turner

why did factories develop slowly in the south?

all of these choices

plantation mistresses

commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves

Europeans immigration to the south was discouraged by

competition with slave labor

slaves fought the system of slavery in all of the following ways except by

conduction periodic successful slave rebellions

By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the

deep south states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana

for free blacks living in the north

discrimination was common

northern attitudes toward free blacks can be best described as

disliking the individuals but liking the race

Members of the planter aristocracy

dominated society and politics in the South

all of the following were characteristics of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century united states except

floggings were very uncommon and rare

the main objective of the american colonization society was to

free slaves and transport them back to Africa

regarding work assignments, slaves were

generally spared dangerous work

What made William Lloyd Garrison the most famous and controversial white abolitionist?

he called for the immediate emancipation of and full equality for all slaves

the plantation system of the cotton south was

increasingly monopolistic

Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because

its excessive cultivation of cotton depleted good land

all of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system except that

its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers

which of the following statements is not an accurate description of slavery?

most slaves gladly accepted the limits on their freedom in return for security

all of the following were true of slavery in the south except

most slaves were raised in single unstable parent households

the great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to

natural reproduction

what was the largest group of southern whites in the antebellum period?

nonslaveholding yeomen

one of the south's chief defenders of slavery, George Fitzhugh, argued that

northern factory workers labored under harsh, inhumane conditions, whereas southern slaves were well fed and better cared for in comparison

forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common

on small plantations and in the upper south

in arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners

placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the western world

most slaves in the south were owned by

plantation owners

the liberator was significant because it was a journal that

publicized the abolitionist cause.

Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of

purchasing their way out of slavery

as a result of the introduction of the cotton gin

slavery was reinvigorated

Why did southern education lag behind northern education?

southerners rejected compulsory education

the idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was

supported by the black leader Martin Delaney

slavery's greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's uncle Tom's Cabin, was

the enforced seperation of slave families

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to

the immediate abolition of slavery in the South

All the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom except

the south reaped all of the profits from the cotton trade

the majority of southern whites owned no slaves because

they could not afford the purchase

which of the following is not one of the reasons that nonslaveholding southerners supported the slave system?

they knew that they were outnumbered and had no choice but to support it

Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery

were creating disorder in america

As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the

whip as a motivator

which of the following was a common form of slave resistance

work sabotages and theft