Chapter 11 true&false
Although New Orleans was the only city of significant size in the South, it did not have a rich immigrant culture
False
Free blacks in the South could testify in court and serve on juries
False
John C. Calhoun`s key contribution to the proslavery argument was the claim that slavery was a necessary evil
False
Most white southerners families owned at least one slave
False
Overall, slaves did not think much about freedom. They were content with their situation as long as their master was kind.
False
Slavery did not affect northern merchants and manufacturers.
False
Although the importation of slaves from Africa was prohibited beginning in 1808, the sale and trade of slaves within the United States flourished in later years
True
By the 1830s, it was illegal to teach a slave to read or write.
True
George Fitzhugh, a Virginia writer, believed slaves in the American South were not only very happy but also, to some degree, the freest people in the world
True
In the southern slave society, white women on plantations were seen as weak and helpless
True
Slaves had a few legal rights, but they were not well enforced.
True
Slaves working in the fields generally viewed the overseer as a cruel and heartless man
True
Unlike in Brazil or the West Indies, there was little room for a mulatto group in the United States
True
By 1860, the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined.
true