HIST quiz 11
Frederick Douglas argued that:
slaves were trued to the principle of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans
Compared to slave revolts in Brazil and in the West Indies, slave revolts in the United States were:
smaller in scale and less frequent
Defenders of American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830s had been a failure because
the freed slaves grew lass sugarcane, which hurt the economy of the Caribbean
The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. According to the text, what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had?
the threat of sale
Plantation owners dominated U.S. southern life and:
wanted to avoid a Civil War at all cost
In 1860, what percentage of the southern white families were in the slave-owning class?
25 percent
On the eve of the Civil War, approximately how much of the world's cotton supply came from the southern United States?
75 percent
Slave religion:
combined African traditions and Christian beliefs
Where did task labor system originate from?
it was a holdover from the colonial period