Chapter 16
All told, only about ___ of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding family. A) one fourth B) half C) two thirds D) one third
A
In some counties of the deep South, especially along the lower Mississippi River, blacks accounted for more than ___ percent of the population. A) 75 B) 50 C) 85 D) 25
A
The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to A) natural reproduction B) re-enslavement of free blacks C) the deliberate breeding of slaves by plantation owners D) the reopening of the African slave trade in 1808
A
European immigration to the South was discouraged by A) Irish antislavery groups B) competition with slave labor C) immigration barriers enacted by southern states D) southern anti-Catholicism
B
Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of A) purchase by northern abolitionists B) purchasing their way out of slavery with money earned after hours C) the objection to slaveholding by some white women D) the prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade after 1807
B
Who said the following quote, "I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom." A) Abraham Lincoln B) Ralph Waldo Emerson C) Jefferson Davis D) John C. Calhoun
B
As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin A) short-staple cotton lost popularity B) fewer slaves were needed on the plantation C) slavery was reinvigorated D) Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery
C
By 1860, three-quarters of all southern whites did not own slaves, but instead A) lived and worked in the emerging cities of the South B) owned small farms where they and their families raised cotton C) eked out a living in the mountains and backcountry raising corn and hogs D) farmed a mixture of wheat, tobacco and cotton
C
For free blacks living in the North A) living conditions were nearly equal to those for whites B) voting rights were widespread C) discrimination was common D) good jobs were plentiful
C
Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common A) in the decade before the Civil War B) in the Deep South C) on small plantations and in the upper South D) on the large plantations
C
Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840, when they backed the presidential candidate of the A) Know-Nothing party B) Free Soil party C) Liberty party D) Republican party
C
The voice of white southern abolitionism fell silent at the beginning of the A) 1820s B) 1840s C) 1830s D) 1850s
C
Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four? A) Nat Turner B) David Walker C) John Quincy Adams D) Denmark Vesey
C
As their main crop, southern subsistence farmers raised A) rice B) tobacco C) cotton D) corn
D
By 1860, life for slaves was most difficult in the A) Atlantic states of North and South Carolina B) Deep South states of Georgia and Florida C) territories of Kansas, Nebraska, and New Mexico D) newer states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
D
In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was A) sabotage of plantation equipment B) feigned laziness C) running away D) armed insurrection
D
Most slaves were raised A) never knowing anything about their relatives B) not to display their African cultural roots C) without the benefit of a stable home life D) in stable two-parent households
D
Most white southerners were A) merchants and artisans B) small slave owners C) planter aristocrats D) subsistence farmers
D
The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was A) proposed as part of the Fourteenth Amendment B) advocated by Frederick Douglass C) proposed by William Lloyd Garrison D) supported by the black leader Martin Delaney
D
Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery A) deserved the right to speak freely B) had turned their backs on religion C) were defending the American way of life D) were creating disorder in America
D
