Hist121 Chapter 11

In 1850, a majority of southern slaveholders owned how many slaves

1 to 5

In 1860, what percentage of southern white families were in the slaveowning class

25 percent

Urban slaves

most often were domestic servants

Which of the following is NOT true of the South and its economy in the period from 1800 to 1860?

The South produced nearly two-fifths of the nation's manufactured goods, especially cotton textiles

The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons from:

older states like Virginia to the Lower South

On the plantation, the white employee in charge of ensuring a profitable crop for the plantation master was called the

overseer.

To qualify as a member of the planter class, a person had to be engaged in southern agriculture and

own at least twenty slaves

Free blacks in the South were allowed to

own property

Gender roles under slavery

differed from those of white society because men and women alike suffered a sense of powerlessness.

In the South, the paternalist ethos

reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him.

Frederick Douglass argued that

slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans

All of the following statements are true of the work done by southern slaves EXCEPT

slaves worked exclusively as agricultural field hands and house servants

Compared to slave revolts in Brazil and in the West Indies, slave revolts in the United States were

smaller in scale and less frequent

Free blacks in the United States

sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves

Defenders of American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830s had been a failure because

the freed slaves grew less 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

Harriet Tubman

was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery

Slave families:

were headed by women more frequently than were white families

Which of the following was NOT true of the South and slavery in nineteenth-century America

In the South as a whole, slaves made up only 10 percent of the population

Which statement about Nat Turner's Rebellion is true?

Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion

What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North

Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North

Why did southern slaves live in better conditions by the mid-nineteenth century than those in the Caribbean and South America?

The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slaveowners to take better care of them

Which of the following statements about religious life among African-Americans in southern cities is true?

Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches

John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh

agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good

Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political power

as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters

The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers

benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders.

The Brer Rabbit stories of slave folklore

celebrated how the weak could outsmart the more powerful.

By the late 1830s, the South's proslavery argument

claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress

Slave religion

combined African traditions and Christian beliefs.

In the nineteenth century, which product was the world's major crop produced by slave labor

cotton

"Silent sabotage" can be defined as when slaves

did poor work and broke tools.

Fugitive slaves:

generally understood that the North Star led to freedom