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32 Cards in this Set
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As acts of self-empowerment, enslaved individuals often |
broke tools. |
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Slaves made up a significant portion of the Old South’s: |
field laborers. |
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John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered “the most false and dangerous of all political errors,” the view that: |
all men are created equal and entitled to liberty. |
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By 1860, more than half of the United States’ exports were in: |
cotton. |
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Which of the following was not a part of slavery’s impact on the northern economy? |
Slave labor in the southern cotton belt undermined cotton production in the North. |
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In the quotation, “Exalting the superiority of northern society based on ‘free labor,’ ” define “free labor”: |
non-slave labor that is paid |
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Labor on rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia was generally done by: |
task labor. |
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Which of the following was not true of the plain white folk of the Old South? |
Like slaves, they had few civil or political rights. |
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The newly created Republican Party of the 1850s was dedicated to: |
confining slavery to the states in which it already existed. |
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Which of the following was not a central theme of planter ideology? |
There is no place for fixed social hierarchies in a democratic republic. |
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Which was not a restriction on free blacks in the Old South? |
They could own dogs and firearms. |
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Define “planter” as used in this and other chapters of this book in such phrases as “southern planters were successful.” |
the owner or manager of a plantation who himself rarely if ever did the actual physical labor associated with plowing or harvesting crops |
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Whose name is most often associated with the Underground Railroad? |
Harriet Tubman |
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Which was not a job slaves occupied? |
businessman |
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The southern state with the largest free black population in relation to its total African American population was? |
Delaware |
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“Slave patrols” were: |
farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves. |
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In the Old South, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately: |
25 percent. |
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Nat Turner: |
led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites. |
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The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation’s leading advocate of racial equality was: |
Frederick Douglass. |
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In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in: |
slaves. |
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Which of the following was not a frequent mode of slave resistance? |
deadly assaults on slaveholders |
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“In southern cities, thousands of slaves were employed as skilled artisans.” Define “artisan”: |
skilled craftsman |
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Which was not the case for free blacks? |
Most free blacks rose to the status of skilled, middle-class workers. |
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What happened to the 135 enslaved persons who in 1841 seized the ship, the Creole, and sailed to Nassau in search of freedom? |
They were given refuge in the British Caribbean. |
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In American slave culture, jumping over a broomstick was associated with which of the following acts? |
marriage |
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In the years before the Civil War, the wealthiest Americans were: |
planters in South Carolina and Mississippi. |
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Which was not a condition of slavery? |
Slaves were not allowed to carry shotguns in South Carolina. |
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Which of the following does not apply to the comparative experience of slaves and free blacks in the Old South? |
Between 1800 and 1860 the material conditions of free blacks steadily improved, while those of slaves steadily deteriorated. |
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Which of the following was not a feature of slave culture? |
a notable indifference to gender roles |
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Approximately how many enslaved individuals ran away to the North each year? |
1,000 |
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Cotton was “King” during the first half of the nineteenth century. Three-fourths of the world’s supply came from the United States, and textile manufacturers in New England, Great Britain, France, and Russia depended on the American cotton supply. Define “textile”: |
woven cloth |
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Which is not part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey? |
Vesey and his followers killed or maimed 37 whites. |