In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, Southerners

placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the Western world

As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South

developed a theory of biological racial superiority

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to

the immediate abolition of slavery in the South

By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the

Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, & Louisiana

As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the

whip as a motivator

The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to

natural reproduction

Members of the planter aristocracy.

dominated society and politics in the South

Slaves fought the system of slavery in all of the following ways except by

refusing to get an education

For free blacks living in the North,

discrimination was common

Regarding work assignments, slaves were

generally spared dangerous work

Which one of the following has least in common with the other four? *

John Quincy Adams

Those in the North who opposed abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery

were creating disorder in America

As their main crop, southern subsistence farmers raised

corn

Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840 when they backed the _____ presidential candidate of the

Liberty party

Some southern slaves gained their freedorn as a result of

purchasing their way out of slavery

By the mid-nineteenth century,

most slaves lived on large plantations

In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was

armed insurrection.

Most slaves were raised

in stable two-person households

Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because

Its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land

Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as

considerably racist

German and Irish immigration to the South was discouraged by

competition with slave labor

The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was

the result of the widespread loathing of blacks in America

The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because

they could not afford the purchase price

The most pro-Union of the white southerners

mountain whites

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

Perhaps the slave's greatest horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was

the forced separation of slave families

As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin

slavery was reinvigorated.

The profitable southem slave system.

hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole

Plantation mistresses

commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.

Most white southerners were

nonslaveowning subsistence farmers

The plantation system of the Cotton South was

Increasingly monopolistic

Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common

on small plantations and in the upper South