History Ch. 11 Quiz
What two southern cities witnessed relatively prosperous free black communities develop in the 1800s?
Charleston and New Orleans
Why did slave owners in the 1850s begin to sell their city slaves to the countryside?
They thought their slaves had too much independence, which negatively influenced the relation between master and slave.
In the mid
1800s, few plantations had dedicated buildings for slave worship so most slaves -worshipped in secret or in biracial churches with white ministers.
A small number of African
Americans owned slaves in the Old South -True
Southern planters felt a community of interest with
Cuban and British slaveowners.
In the Lower South, fugitive slaves tended to head for rural plantations to hide in plain sight.
False
The nineteenth century's "cult of domesticity" applied to slave women as well as white women.
False
By the eve of the Civil War, free blacks in the South were allowed to own
Property.
What was the result of the Missouri court case involving the "crime" of Celia?
She was sentenced to death.
In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in
Slaves.
By 1860, the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined.
True
The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the South from matching northern rates of immigration, industrial development, and urban growth.
True
Which of the following is part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey?
Vesey had purchased his freedom after winning the lottery.
"Slave patrols" were
farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.
Nat Turner
led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites.
Compared to Brazil and the West Indies, involving hundreds or even thousands of slaves, revolts in the United States were
smaller and less frequent.
John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered this idea "the most false and dangerous of all political errors."
that all men are created equal and entitled to liberty
The "peculiar institution" of the South was
the issue of slavery.
Paternalism meant
the master was the head of the system, including providing his slaves with protection and the right of care.
The Second Middle Passage was
the slave trade from the older states to the Lower South.