AAH chapter 6

Which crop pushed owners to work their slaves under very difficult time and weather conditions

sugarcane

What was a primary advantage of being a skilled slave?

It was possible for skilled slaves to experience a taste of independence through the use of their skills

Which of the following statements is true of slave marriages on plantations?

Masters allowed pairings among male and female slaves

What city served as a major slave market for slaves moving through the Southwest?

New Orleans

Which state had the largest slave population during the period 1820-1860

Virginia

Where was tobacco cultivation most important

Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina

What types of positions were black women able to find in the northern states during the antebellum decades?

domestic servants or laundresses

s cotton expanded as a cash crop, the slave trade __________

expanded south and west, with owners selling slaves to new cotton areas

Where was rice cultivation important

in the low country of South Carolina and Georgia

African Americans were generally immune to what health problem that did affect Europeans?

malaria

Slave clothing was generally __________.

plentiful, but often not very warm in colder regions of the South

Slaves' diets in the period between 1820 and 1860 were __________

poor by today's standards

Which crop employed the largest number of slaves on a single plantation?

rice

Which slave group had the highest status on the plantation

skilled slaves

In the nineteenth century, what percentage of slaves worked primarily as field hands

75 percent

Which of the following is true about slave ownership in the Old South?

A small percentage of African Americans owned slaves.

Which new states led the production of cotton, in what was called the "Black Belt"

Alabama and Mississippi

Why did African Americans own slaves?

Blacks owned slaves to protect families from sale

Why did cotton farmers use so many slaves

Cotton planting and culture was spread over an extensive area

Why was it difficult to use advanced technology on cotton crops?

Cotton ripened at varying times, and machines could not predict the timing

How was life different for slaves in the city than on the plantation

Skilled urban slaves could purchase their freedom more easily

Which of the following statements best characterizes slave childhood?

Slave childhood was minimal and kids were doing adult work beginning between the ages of 8 and 12

What was unique about black slave population of the U.S. compared to other slave populations in the New World

Slaves in the U.S. were the only slave population to grow by natural reproduction

Which of the following statements is true about punishment for slaves

Southern whites thought that blacks would not work unless they had the threat of physical punishment

What crop did most agricultural slaves tend

cotton

Which slave-dependent crop was by far the most important to the country as a whole

cotton