chapter 16
by 1860 what percentage of white southern families owned slaves?
25%
which of the following statements accurately describes the upper south and the lower south?
After about 1830, both were united in their defense of slavery.
in 1839, enslaved Africans rose up aboard the Spanish slave ship
Amistad
Who led the 1831 rebellion in Southampton County, VA that terrified the South for generations?
Nat Turner
why did factories develop slowly in the south?
all of these choices
plantation mistresses
commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves
Europeans immigration to the south was discouraged by
competition with slave labor
slaves fought the system of slavery in all of the following ways except by
conduction periodic successful slave rebellions
By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the
deep south states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
for free blacks living in the north
discrimination was common
northern attitudes toward free blacks can be best described as
disliking the individuals but liking the race
Members of the planter aristocracy
dominated society and politics in the South
all of the following were characteristics of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century united states except
floggings were very uncommon and rare
the main objective of the american colonization society was to
free slaves and transport them back to Africa
regarding work assignments, slaves were
generally spared dangerous work
What made William Lloyd Garrison the most famous and controversial white abolitionist?
he called for the immediate emancipation of and full equality for all slaves
the plantation system of the cotton south was
increasingly monopolistic
Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because
its excessive cultivation of cotton depleted good land
all of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system except that
its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers
which of the following statements is not an accurate description of slavery?
most slaves gladly accepted the limits on their freedom in return for security
all of the following were true of slavery in the south except
most slaves were raised in single unstable parent households
the great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to
natural reproduction
what was the largest group of southern whites in the antebellum period?
nonslaveholding yeomen
one of the south's chief defenders of slavery, George Fitzhugh, argued that
northern factory workers labored under harsh, inhumane conditions, whereas southern slaves were well fed and better cared for in comparison
forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common
on small plantations and in the upper south
in arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners
placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the western world
most slaves in the south were owned by
plantation owners
the liberator was significant because it was a journal that
publicized the abolitionist cause.
Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of
purchasing their way out of slavery
as a result of the introduction of the cotton gin
slavery was reinvigorated
Why did southern education lag behind northern education?
southerners rejected compulsory education
the idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was
supported by the black leader Martin Delaney
slavery's greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's uncle Tom's Cabin, was
the enforced seperation of slave families
William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to
the immediate abolition of slavery in the South
All the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom except
the south reaped all of the profits from the cotton trade
the majority of southern whites owned no slaves because
they could not afford the purchase
which of the following is not one of the reasons that nonslaveholding southerners supported the slave system?
they knew that they were outnumbered and had no choice but to support it
Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery
were creating disorder in america
As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the
whip as a motivator
which of the following was a common form of slave resistance
work sabotages and theft
