Chapter 11 Quiz US History

(Q016) The Virginia writer George Fitzhugh believed that slaves

"of the South are the happiest, and in some degree, the freest people in the world."

(Q034) How many slaves were sold between 1820 and 1860 within the United States during the "antebellum" period?

2 million

(Q002) In the Old South, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately

25%

(Q033) In what southern city and state did Frederick Douglass toil as a slave?

Baltimore, Maryland

(Q005) Blacks, free and slave, took part in the Great Awakening of the colonial area, and even more were swept into which southern religions during religious revivals into the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries?

Baptist and Methodist

(Q035) What two southern cities witnessed relatively prosperous free black communities develop in the 1800s?

Charleston and New Orleans

(Q031) Southern planters felt a community of interest with

Cuban and British slaveowners.

(Q036) During the early to mid-1800s, sugar produced in the slave South was America's leading export.

False

(Q052) The laws of almost all southern states recognized the legality of slave marriages.

False

(Q053) The Underground Railroad ran on steel tracks (after its iron ones were replaced) that were generally hidden in forest growth.

False

(Q066) In the Lower South, fugitive slaves tended to head for rural plantations to hide in plain sight.

False

(Q011) The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation's leading advocate of racial equality was

Frederick Douglass

(Q027) Whose name is most often associated with the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman

(Q018) The southern state with the highest population of free blacks in 1860 was

Maryland

(Q032) 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.

(Q042) Slaveowners had many ways to enforce discipline among their slaves--from physical punishment, to material incentives, to the threat of sale.

True

(Q055) Often, many slaves supplemented the food provided by their owners with other food items including chickens and vegetables they raised themselves

True

(Q057) According to abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass, "not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness, even among slaveholders."

True

(Q029) 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.

(Q025) As acts of self-empowerment, enslaved individuals often

abused livestock.

(Q015) "Slave patrols" were

farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.

(Q030) Nat Turner

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

(Q012) Most slaves who arrived in the North as a means of escaping slavery did so

on their own initiative.

(Q019) Henry "Box" Brown escaped slavery by

shipping himself in a crate from Georgia to the North.

(Q017) 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

(Q008) Paternalism meant

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

(Q004) Perhaps the most powerful disciplinary weapon slaveholders possessed was

the threat of sale.

(Q060) Slaves transformed the Christianity they acquired, turning it to their own purposes.

True

(Q062) Cotton was the major agricultural crop of the South and, indeed, the nation, but slaves also grew rice, sugarcane, tobacco, and hemp.

True

(Q064) Given the primitive nature of professional medical treatment, some whites sought out slave healers instead of trained physicians.

True