History chapter 11
The us space population by 1860 was approximately
4 million
How much of the worlds cotton supply comes from the southern us
75 percent
Celia was
A slave tried for killing her master while resisting a sexual assault
Task labor
Allowed slaves to take on daily jobs set their own pace and work on their own when they were done
Which statement about bat turners rebellion is true
Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion
Urban slaves
Most often wede domestic servants
On the plantation the white employee in charge of ensuring a profitable crop for the plantation master was called the
Overseer
Free blacks in the south were allowed to
Own property
What economic effect did southern slavery have in the north
Southern soavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvments in the north
Slave religion
Combined african traditions and christian beliefs
Silent sabotage can be defined as when slaves
Did poor work and broke tools
Gender roles under slavery
Differed from those of whites when slaves were able to work on their own
Lords of the loom
Early new england factory owners
Southern farmers in the backcountry
Generally worked the land using family labor
The end of slavery in most Latin American nations
Invilved gradual emancipation
What was the name of the vibrant community of former slaves freed by Virginian Richard Randolph
Isreal hill
Who said the language in the Declaration of Independence that all men were created equal and entitled to liberty was the most false and dangerous of all political errors
John c calhoun
Paternalist wthos
Reflected the heirarchical sociwty in which the planter took responisblity for the slaves lives
Which of the following statements about slavery and the law is true
Slaves accused of serious crimes were entitled to their day in court, although they faved all white judges and juries
Frederick Douglas argued that
Slaves were truer to the principles of the declaration of independance than were most white americans
What was not work done by the southern slaves
Slaves worked exclusivly as agricultural feild hands and house servants
Free blacks in the United states
Sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves
What was the best weapon a slave owner had
Threat of sale
What event is credited with helping to ingrain the paternalist ethos more deeply into the lives of southern slaveholders
The closing of the african slave trade
Defenders of American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830 had been a failure because
The freed slaves grew less sugar cane which hurt the economy of the carribean
Why did southern slaves live in better conditions by the mid nineteenth century than those in the carribean and South American south
The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slavepwners to take better cate of them
Which of the following statements about religious life among African Americans in southern cities is true
Urban free blacks could worship publicly but slaves were not permitted to do so
Harriet Tubman
Was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery
Slave families
Were headed by women more frequently than were white families
