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22 Cards in this Set
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One goal of scientific agriculture was to? |
Increase the production of crops by introducing the use of fertilizers |
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Which of the following reasons best explains why the southern slaves suffered more after the north began abolishing slavery? |
The thought that freed slaves would inspire there slaves to rebel caused masters to enforce harsher discipline |
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What have some historians called "the invisible institution"? |
Slave religion |
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Cash crops hurt the souths economy because they? |
Took capitalists attention away from southern industry |
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I desire all things to be a farmer it is the most honest upright and sure way of securing all the comforts of life. -a young Georgia man, 1849 What does this question illustrate? |
The great pride yeoman took in their work |
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Religion boosted the spirits of slaves in all of the following ways exept which |
They understood that God wanted to obey slaveholers |
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What event promoted many states to strengthen their slave code? |
Turners rebellion |
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Why did many southern city's and states pass laws to limit there rights of free slaves |
White souther a feared former slaves would try to encourage slave rebellion |
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Witch of these statement provides the best account of why there was a high rate of illiteracy among slaves? |
Some states had literacy laws that prohibited teaching slaves |
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What would a slave have worried about most when coming up for auction |
The fate of parents brothers sisters and Children |
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Why did southern cotton planters rely on the regions rivers to ship good? |
The quality of the roads made shipping by land very difficult |
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Wealthy white southern used religion to justify the institution of slavery by arguing that? |
God created some people to rule over others |
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Planters felt cotton would be a profitable cash crop for all of the following reasons except which? |
It resisted disease |
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Which of the following statements about African Americans in the 1860s is false? |
Freed slaves protested against being called "African Americans" by whites |
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Religion affected white southern society in all the following ways except which |
Politicians met with religious groups to campaign for southern issues |
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What was the greatest benefit of the invention of the cotton gin |
It revolutionized the cotton industry and gave a boost to southern framing |
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"Spirituals" most inspired what later musical form? |
Gospel |
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Steam power benefited the south in all the following ways except which? |
Southern farmers and Planters formed their profits into southern industry |
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How did enslaved parents pass their culture to their children? |
They told folktales with customary characters and morals |
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Which of the following statements about the life of Harriet Jacob is false? |
She bore no children |
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How did Eli Whitney's original cotton gin work? |
A worker cranked the machine and teeth separated green seeds from cotton fiber |
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What was most responsible for increasing the domestic slave trade in the early 1800 |
An act of congress banned the importation of slaves into the country |
