CH 12 - Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800-1860

The largest group or the majority of white people in the South _______. a. enslaved no one b. enslaved between 1 to 9 persons c. enslaved between 10 to 99 persons d. enslaved over 100 persons

a. enslaved no one

Under the law in the antebellum South, enslaved people were ________. a. property b. indentures c. animals d. serfs

a. property

Place the following events in chronological order: 1794 - Ostend Manifesto publicized - Charles Delondes' Louisiana slave revolt - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published - Nat Turner's Virginia slave revolt 1855

- Charles Delondes' Louisiana slave revolt - Nat Turner's Virginia slave revolt - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published - Ostend Manifesto publicized

Match the Davenport slave/family with the correct description: - Daughter of Sarah and Isaiah Davenport - Worshipped with other African Baptists - Treated like family by a German family, the Salzbergers - Mother to 4 children; owned by a "habitual drunk" - Bella (b. 1789) - Ned Jr. (b. 1780) - Cornelia (b. 1824) - Nancy (b. 1782)

- Cornelia (b. 1824) - Ned Jr. (b. 1780) - Nancy (b. 1782) - Bella (b. 1789)

For what reasons did upper south landowners sell slaves "down" south? - industrialization - Decline in tobacco price - Soil exhaustion due to over planting - immigration

- Decline in tobacco price - Soil exhaustion due to over planting

Match the person with the correct description: - Talbot County, Maryland, slaveowner who inherited wealth - Wealthy South Carolina planter - Harvard lawyer who came from a wealthy Alabama family of slaveowners - South Carolina slave owner who sexually abused his nieces - Daniel Robinson Hundley - Nathaniel Heyward - Edward Lloyd V - James Hammond

- Edward Lloyd V - Nathaniel Heyward - Daniel Robinson Hundley - James Hammond

Architectural style of Davenport home on Columbia Square in Savannah, Georga, circa 1820: - Classical - Old English - Federalist - Georgian

- Federalist

Isaiah Davenport (1784-1827) of Savannah, Georgia, achieved which of the following? - Fire Dept. master - Ships carpenter - Architect - Slave owner - City Alderman - Constable

- Fire Dept. master - Ships carpenter - Slave owner - City Alderman - Constable

A cash crop was/is grown to be sold for profit instead of consumption by the farmer's family TRUE or FALSE

TRUE

In addition to lynching, free blacks who traveled in or near the slave states in the early 1800's ran the risk of kidnapping and forced into bondage. TRUE or FALSE

TRUE

Sara Rosamund Clark of Savannah, Georgia (1788-1869) and Isaiah Davenport (1784-1827) produced 10 children, 7 of whom survived into adulthood. TRUE or FALSE

TRUE

Before being sold into slavery, Solomon Northrup was a free black resident of New Jersey state. TRUE or FALSE

FALSE

Polygenism was the idea that black and white people had the same origin. TRUE or FALSE

FALSE

The following characteristics of the Davenport home on Columbia Square in Savannah, Georgia, reflect relative affluence: - Fire places heat rooms on either side of the home and on all floors - Basement and attic floors providing working and living quarters for slaves - Silhouettes of family members displayed as framed wall hangings - All 6 Davenport daughters had to share one bedroom, while Isaiah Jr. had a master suite to himself. - Crown molding decor used throughout the main and second floors

- Fire places heat rooms on either side of the home and on all floors - Basement and attic floors providing working and living quarters for slaves - Silhouettes of family members displayed as framed wall hangings - Crown molding decor used throughout the main and second floors

Which of the following new states experienced an upswing in American cotton production during the nineteenth century? - Virginia - Kentucky - Mississippi - Alabama

- Mississippi - Alabama

Which city controlled 12 percent of the nation's banking capital by 1840? - New Orleans, LA - Charleston, SC - Richmond, VA - Mobile, AL - Galveston, TX

- New Orleans, LA

Which of the following would be expected of a "good" enslaved field hand by slave owners/overseers? - Perform chores - Work 10 acres of land a day - Work up to 18 hours a day - Pick up to 200 lbs. of cotton per day - Care for animals - Submit to all demands/regulations

- Perform chores - Work 10 acres of land a day - Pick up to 200 lbs. of cotton per day - Care for animals - Submit to all demands/regulations

Which of the following represented a disadvantage of African-American manumission in the early 1800's? - Some slave states divested freed blacks of legal rights or even forced them to exit their state of residence. - Most freed blacks were mulatto women who had been raped by whites. - Reinforced the concept that "all men are created equal." - Wheat replaced tobacco as a new cash crop

- Some slave states divested freed blacks of legal rights or even forced them to exit their state of residence. - Most freed blacks were mulatto women who had been raped by whites.

Which of the following was a type of slave resistance in the early 1800's? - food poisoning - rebellion - Preferential treatment - Feigned childishness/ignorance - Threats to sell/separate families - Execution of master/overseer - escape - Work slowdown - Leniency - Corporeal punishment

- food poisoning - rebellion - Threats to sell/separate families - Execution of master/overseer - escape - Work slowdown

Which of the following was not one of the effects of the cotton boom? a. Demand for slavery grew. b. Immigration expanded from southern and eastern Europe. c. Manufacturing of textiles in the Northeast grew. d. New Orleans expanded as a port city.

b. Immigration expanded from southern and eastern Europe.

The abolition of the foreign slave trade in 1807 led to _______. a. a reform movement calling for the complete end to slavery in the United States b. the rise of a thriving domestic slave trade c. the decline of cotton production d. a dramatic decrease in the price and demand for enslaved people

b. the rise of a thriving domestic slave trade

Why did southern expansionists conduct filibuster expeditions? a. to map unknown territories b. to annex new slave states c. to prove they could raise an army d. to gain economic influence among Whigs

b. to annex new slave states

The controversy at the heart of the Ostend Manifesto centered on the fate of: a. California b. Nicaragua c. Cuba d. Texas

c. Cuba

Whereas the "middle passage" referenced trans-Atlantic shipment of African slaves, the "_____ middle passage" refers to the resale of slaves from the upper to the ____ South. a. last, lower b. first, deep c. second, lower d. first, upper

c. second, lower

John C. Calhoun argued for greater rights for southerners with which idea? a. paternalism b. polygenism c. Removal d. Concurrent majority

d. Concurrent majority