History Ch. 11 Quiz

What two southern cities witnessed relatively prosperous free black communities develop in the 1800s?

Charleston and New Orleans

Why did slave owners in the 1850s begin to sell their city slaves to the countryside?

They thought their slaves had too much independence, which negatively influenced the relation between master and slave.

In the mid

1800s, few plantations had dedicated buildings for slave worship so most slaves -worshipped in secret or in biracial churches with white ministers.

A small number of African

Americans owned slaves in the Old South -True

Southern planters felt a community of interest with

Cuban and British slaveowners.

In the Lower South, fugitive slaves tended to head for rural plantations to hide in plain sight.

False

The nineteenth century's "cult of domesticity" applied to slave women as well as white women.

False

By the eve of the Civil War, free blacks in the South were allowed to own

Property.

What was the result of the Missouri court case involving the "crime" of Celia?

She was sentenced to death.

In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in

Slaves.

By 1860, the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined.

True

The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the South from matching northern rates of immigration, industrial development, and urban growth.

True

Which of the following is part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey?

Vesey had purchased his freedom after winning the lottery.

"Slave patrols" were

farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.

Nat Turner

led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites.

Compared to Brazil and the West Indies, involving hundreds or even thousands of slaves, revolts in the United States were

smaller and less frequent.

John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered this idea "the most false and dangerous of all political errors."

that all men are created equal and entitled to liberty

The "peculiar institution" of the South was

the issue of slavery.

Paternalism meant

the master was the head of the system, including providing his slaves with protection and the right of care.

The Second Middle Passage was

the slave trade from the older states to the Lower South.