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
Which statement about Nat Turner's Rebellion is true?
Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion.
Urban slaves:
most often were domestic servants.
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.
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.
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.
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.
claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress.
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.
The South produced nearly two-fifths of the nation's manufactured goods, especially cotton textiles.
as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters.
"Silent sabotage" can be defined as when slaves:
did poor work and broke tools.
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
Fugitive slaves:
generally understood that the North Star led to freedom.
