Deck 8: The Peculiar Institution: the Old South and Slavery, 1800-1860

Question 1

How did owners of small or medium sized farms deal with labor shortages? ​

A)They hired neighbors' children.
B)They mortgaged their homes so they could buy a slave or two.
C)​They hired slaves from larger plantations.
D)​None of the above 

Answer 1

​They hired slaves from larger plantations.

Question 2

Who was the African American preacher who helped organize separate Methodist congregations for blacks? ​

A)Nat Turner
B)Horace Greeley
C)​Richard Allen
D)​James Forten
E)​None of the above

Answer 2

​Richard Allen

Question 3

The Virginia slave debates of 1831-1832 revealed which of the following? ​

A)Many Virginians worried about slavery's influence on whites.
B)Many Virginians openly admitted the debilitating effect of slavery.
C)​Many Virginian's worried that slavery prevented the economy from developing in the same manner as it did in the North.
D)​None of these
E)​All of these

Answer 3

​All of these

Question 4

Which of the following events occurred first? ​

A)John Quincy Adams attempted to present a petition from twenty-two slaves to Congress,asking for the end of slavery.
B)A mob in Boston hauled William Lloyd Garrison through the streets at the end of a rope.
C)​The American Anti-Slavery Society formed in Philadelphia.
D)​William Lloyd Garrison began publication of The Liberator.

Question 5

The American Anti-Slavery Society followed the example of ​

A)Great Britain.
B)France.
C)​Canada.
D)​Liberia.
E)​Mexico.

Question 6

What was the result of Nat Turner's revolt? ​

A)The deaths of more than 700 whites
B)The hanging of Turner and numerous other rebels
C)​A growing fear of slave rebellions throughout the South
D)​Both the deaths of 700 whites and the hanging of Turner
E)​Both Turner's hanging and an escalating fear of slave rebellions throughout the white South

Question 7

What did the American Colonization Society,which purchased land in Africa for free blacks,name the new country? ​

A)Ghana
B)Ivory Coast
C)​Republic of the Congo
D)​Cameroon
E)​Liberia

Question 8

Denmark Vesey frightened the residents in and around what city when he attempted to launch a slave revolt? ​

A)Charleston
B)Savannah
C)​Richmond
D)​Atlanta
E)​Washington,D.C.

Question 9

Which of these was an organization formed in Philadelphia in 1833 with the goal of involving church leaders in the fight for abolition? ​

A)Quaker Anti-Slavery Society
B)American Anti-Slavery Society
C)​Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society
D)​American Colonization Society

Question 10

What was the first religious group to prohibit members from owning slaves? ​

A)Baptists
B)Methodists
C)​Quakers
D)​Anglicans
E)​Puritans

Question 11

The explosive issue of slavery split which of the following churches? ​

A)Methodist
B)Quakers
C)​Catholic
D)​Baptists

Question 12

Urban black churches provided ​

A)mutual aid.
B)fellowship.
C)​avenues for leadership.
D)​All of the above
E)​None of the above

Question 13

About three of every four enslaved people worked as which of the following? ​

A)domestic servants
B)factory workers
C)​Shipbuilders
D)​Fieldhands

Question 14

Which of these people was NOT a former slave-turned-abolitionist? ​

A)Harriet Tubman
B)Frederick Douglass
C)​Sojourner Truth
D)​Arthur Tappan
E)​Henry Brown

Question 15

What was the first state to pass an abolition law? ​

A)Pennsylvania
B)Virginia
C)​New Jersey
D)​North Carolina
E)​New York

Question 16

In what city was the first congregation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church established? ​

A)Philadelphia
B)Boston
C)​New York
D)​Savannah
E)​Trenton

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about William Lloyd Garrison? ​

A)His newspaper,The Liberator,became a vehicle for ending slavery.
B)He embraced moral suasion as a strategy.
C)​He attended antislavery meetings held by African Americans.
D)​He supported the gradual end of slavery as the most expedient approach.

Question 18

Which of the following statements regarding the Grimké sisters is true? ​

A)They spoke out against slavery in their native South Carolina.
B)By touring New England as daughters of a slave owner,they brought new credibility to the abolitionist movement.
C)​They published an antislavery paper in Boston.
D)​All of these 
E)​None of these

Question 19

Which of the following statements most accurately describes abolitionism in the North? ​

A)By the 1830s,the North had over 5,000 antislavery societies.
B)Antislavery societies published various kinds of materials to spread their message.
C)​While northerners were incensed over what they saw as interference,southerners in general supported the cause of abolition.
D)​None of these

Question 20

Which of the following was a key leader in the emergence of a new antislavery movement? ​

A)William Lloyd Garrison
B)Henry Ward Beecher
C)​Charles Grandison Finney
D)​Lyman Beecher
E)​John Eaton

Question 21

Antislavery reformers sent hundreds of petitions to Congress,which were quickly acted upon.​

Question 22

David Walker's Appeal was widely read and accepted by the white South.​

Question 23

Slaves created their own communities and cultures in all of the following ways EXCEPT: ​

A)They developed nonblood familial relationships with other slaves,incorporating friends and neighbors into the roles of true family members
B)They rejected Christian religion and held fast to their African faiths
C)​They created music and dance forms
D)​They developed stories and songs about the end of slavery

Question 24

Southern defenders of slavery argued that slaves in the South were cared for better than industrial white workers in the North.​

Question 25

Denmark Vesey was a black slave in North Carolina who led an aborted slave rebellion in 1822 ​

Question 26

Efforts by white Americans to encourage free blacks to leave the United States and return to Africa,specifically to the newly created country of Liberia,proved largely successful.​

Question 27

The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to join the Union as a free state while permitting slavery inCalifornia.​

Question 28

Nat Turner was a Virginia slave who led a slave revolt in 1831.​

Question 29

Some free blacks in the South also owned slaves. ​

Question 30

Leading abolitionist Frederick Douglass had once been a slave in Maryland.​

Question 31

White slave owners justified slavery by pointing to the Bible.​

Question 32

In their own ways,both Whigs and Democrats in the South supported slavery.​

Question 33

The term "fictive kin" refers to children born of a union between slave owners and their female slaves. ​

Question 34

Eli Whitney became wealthy from his invention of the cotton gin.​

Question 35

White women on southern plantations ​

A)were required to be submissive to husbands
B)felt powerless to challenge slavery
C)​turned control of all of their possessions over to their husbands upon marriage
D)​All of the above
E)​None of the above

Question 36

The Pennsylvania Abolition Society provided legal counsel to African Americans fighting for their liberty ​

Question 37

Gabriel was an enslaved blacksmith in Virginia who led a doomed rebellion in 1800,fueling white fears ​

Question 38

Angelina and Sarah Grimké were daughters of a South Carolina slave owner who later spoke out against slavery.​

Question 39

The invention of the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 helped transform cotton into the South's most profitable crop. ​

Question 40

Most southern farmers owned at least one slave.​

Question 41

Slaves could legally marry and form families.​

Question 42

Young male slaves would bring the highest prices in the slave markets.​

Question 43

Southern society knew about white men's sexual - often forced - relationships with slave women but pretended not to notice. ​