front 1 In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, Southerners | back 1 placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the Western world |
front 2 As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South | back 2 developed a theory of biological racial superiority |
front 3 William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to | back 3 the immediate abolition of slavery in the South |
front 4 By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the | back 4 Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, & Louisiana |
front 5 As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the | back 5 whip as a motivator |
front 6 The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to | back 6 natural reproduction |
front 7 Members of the planter aristocracy. | back 7 dominated society and politics in the South |
front 8 Slaves fought the system of slavery in all of the following ways except by | back 8 refusing to get an education |
front 9 For free blacks living in the North, | back 9 discrimination was common |
front 10 Regarding work assignments, slaves were | back 10 generally spared dangerous work |
front 11 Which one of the following has least in common with the other four? * | back 11 John Quincy Adams |
front 12 Those in the North who opposed abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery | back 12 were creating disorder in America |
front 13 As their main crop, southern subsistence farmers raised | back 13 corn |
front 14 Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840 when they backed the _____ presidential candidate of the | back 14 Liberty party |
front 15 Some southern slaves gained their freedorn as a result of | back 15 purchasing their way out of slavery |
front 16 By the mid-nineteenth century, | back 16 most slaves lived on large plantations |
front 17 In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was | back 17 armed insurrection. |
front 18 Most slaves were raised | back 18 in stable two-person households |
front 19 Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because | back 19 Its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land |
front 20 Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as | back 20 considerably racist |
front 21 German and Irish immigration to the South was discouraged by | back 21 competition with slave labor |
front 22 The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was | back 22 the result of the widespread loathing of blacks in America |
front 23 The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because | back 23 they could not afford the purchase price |
front 24 The most pro-Union of the white southerners | back 24 mountain whites |
front 25 All of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system except that | back 25 Its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers |
front 26 Perhaps the slave's greatest horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was | back 26 the forced separation of slave families |
front 27 As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin | back 27 slavery was reinvigorated. |
front 28 The profitable southem slave system. | back 28 hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole |
front 29 Plantation mistresses | back 29 commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves. |
front 30 Most white southerners were | back 30 nonslaveowning subsistence farmers |
front 31 The plantation system of the Cotton South was | back 31 Increasingly monopolistic |
front 32 Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common | back 32 on small plantations and in the upper South |