Deck 11: Slavery and the South, 1831-1844

Question 1

When the international slave trade was ended,the domestic U.S.slave trade

A)remained about the same.
B)drastically declined with it.
C)intensified.
D)slowed down gradually.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Most plantation slaves,both male and female,worked as

A)house servants.
B)slave drivers.
C)field laborers.
D)artisans such as carpenters or blacksmiths.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Most of the white majority in the Deep South

A)did not own slaves.
B)owned at least one or two slaves.
C)owned 10-20 slaves.
D)owned 50-200 slaves.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following was NOT a reason that slaveholders facilitated family formation among their slaves?

A)They felt slaves would be more likely to accept the Christian faith.
B)They felt slaves would be more likely to reproduce.
C)They felt slaves would be less likely to rebel.
D)They felt slaves would be less likely to flee.

Question 5

Cotton accounted for more than half of the nation's exports and

A)was detrimental to industry in the North.
B)did not necessarily bind up the nation's commercial capital with it.
C)caused an unfavorable balance of trade with Great Britain.
D)paid for the nation's imported goods.

Question 6

Slaveholding farmers in Virginia had a stake in the cotton boom because

A)it raised the value of their slaves.
B)they could market their tobacco to the same English merchants who were purchasing cotton.
C)they benefitted from the clothing that was produced from it.
D)it increased their property values.

Question 7

Large sugar,cotton,and rice plantations tended to be located in all of these states EXCEPT

A)LouisianA.
B)Mississippi.
C)South Carolina.
D)Virginia.

Question 8

During the antebellum period the experience of slavery was framed by the

A)prospect of earning freedom.
B)possibility of being sold.
C)sole comfort that one's family would remain intact.
D)real hope of the impending success of the abolition movement.

Question 9

The persistence of the expansion of slavery in the United States was driven,above all,by

A)tobacco.
B)the increasing value of slaves.
C)cotton.
D)racial prejudice.

Question 10

Turner's rebellion reinforced slaveholders'

A)fears that the races could never live together in peace.
B)confidence that peace could be maintained with proper vigilance.
C)growing realization that the institution of slavery would soon end.
D)belief that slaves lived contentedly within a benevolent institution.

Question 11

The term paternalism as applied to the system of plantation authority in the antebellum South means that

A)slaveholders were benevolent.
B)slaveholders regarded slaves as childlike inferiors who needed protection.
C)American slavery was comparatively mild.
D)slaves in many cases had family-like relationships with their master's householD.

Question 12

Who invented and patented the cotton gin?

A)Eli Whitney
B)Nat Turner
C)Henry Ford
D)Henry "Box" Brown

Question 13

Enslaved children in the antebellum period were mostly raised

A)under the care of just their mother.
B)by a female house servant.
C)in the white master's household.
D)in two-parent households.

Question 14

Nat Turner claimed to have been inspired to lead his rebellion by

A)abolition publications from the North.
B)the murder of his wife and children.
C)the beating he had received the day before.
D)a vision in the skies.

Question 15

Which of the following was NOT true of the lives of American slaves?

A)They ate more abundantly and nutritiously than in the colonial period.
B)They received better medical care than most southern whites.
C)They were less vulnerable to sale and forced migration than forced laborers of other societies.
D)They grew taller and lived longer than Caribbean slaves.

Question 16

The largest slave market in North America during the antebellum period was

A)Charlotte.
B)Alexandria.
C)Charleston.
D)New Orleans.

Question 17

The machines most responsible for the cotton kingdom were

A)steam engines.
B)cotton gins.
C)spinning looms.
D)throstle frames.

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT an example of slave regulatory laws passed by state legislatures in the South after Turner's rebellion?

A)minimum standards for food and shelter
B)freer movement for slaves
C)prohibition of firearm possession
D)illegal for masters to murder or mutilate their slaves

Question 19

Slaves were physically abused

A)by only the most cruel masters.
B)by most slaveholders.
C)generally only when they committed serious offenses.
D)by very few slaveholders.

Question 20

Second Middle Passage refers to

A)slaves imported from the Caribbean and South AmericA.
B)the migration of freed slaves to northern states.
C)the sale of African Americans across state lines.
D)slaves transported into Virginia,Maryland,and the Carolinas during this perioD.

Question 21

For white women,honor in southern culture consisted almost entirely of their

A)family loyalty.
B)sexual chastity and fidelity.
C)household managerial ability.
D)education and etiquette.

Question 22

Yeoman farmers grew

A)crops with the help of only one or two slaves.
B)crops for market as well as for subsistence.
C)cash crops on large plantations.
D)crops strictly for subsistence.

Question 23

Perhaps the single most significant initiative in southern slavery after 1830 was a new series of laws

A)limiting the movement of slaves.
B)prohibiting firearms possession.
C)making it harder for slaves to achieve their freedom.
D)prohibiting assembly without white supervision.

Question 24

Free people of color living in nineteenth-century American cities looked for social and economic support from all of the following EXCEPT

A)municipal relief funds.
B)churches.
C)benevolent societies.
D)fraternal orders.

Question 25

The South's traditional honor culture that stressed the importance of personal reputation relied on

A)private guilt.
B)duels.
C)nose-pulling.
D)public shame.

Question 26

A key opportunity for strategic resistance on the part of a slave was

A)while working in the field.
B)during times of transition to and from their daily tasks.
C)the point of sale.
D)at night,when most were sleeping.

Question 27

By 1860 Protestant Christianity had

A)made few inroads into slave communities.
B)become the faith of nearly 90 percent of African Americans.
C)begun a general decline in the South.
D)become the dominant religion among African Americans.

Question 28

The American Colonization Society briefly united opponents of slavery and anxious slaveholders around a plan to relocate slaves to

A)AfricA.
B)Canada.
C)the Caribbean.
D)western territories.

Question 29

Animal trickster tales had special appeal to subjugated slaves because in them,

A)they felt a connection with the African homeland through animals such as lions and giraffes.
B)weaker animals eluded or overcame stronger ones.
C)they found courage in the exploits of animals of great size and strength.
D)animals prevailed over their human captors.

Question 30

African Americans built communities and found meaning under the brutal conditions of their enslavement through

A)voodoo.
B)magic.
C)folk medicine.
D)All these answers are correct.

Question 31

Which of the following does NOT describe a common practice or attitude of poorer white farming families in the South?

A)rich folk culture
B)distinctive singing style
C)opposition to slavery
D)belief in ghosts and witches

Question 32

The best evidence suggests that overall,Christian ideas induced in slaves

A)feelings of subservience.
B)impulses to rebel.
C)expectations of freedom in the indefinite future.
D)despair about their predicament.

Question 33

Black Christians gravitated toward certain Biblical texts,favoring all of the following EXCEPT

A)the record of jubilee laws.
B)the exodus narrative.
C)the psalms of the Hebrew scriptures.
D)injunctions to obedience in the Pauline epistles.

Question 34

Before 1825,the most common method American states used to abolish slavery was by

A)constitutional mandate.
B)judicial ruling.
C)the Continental Congress.
D)gradual abolition.

Question 35

Baptist and Methodist preachers were the enemies of the culture of honor,in part because they called for the rejection of all of the following EXCEPT

A)slaveholding.
B)gambling.
C)horse-racing.
D)extramarital sex.

Question 36

For a significant number of slaves,city living was a relatively desirable situation because of all of the following,EXCEPT

A)the hiring-out system.
B)the economy of life in the city.
C)the relative freedom enjoyed by the urban slave.
D)a better chance of earning freedom.

Question 37

The sport of baseball is thought to have not caught on in the South until after the Civil War because

A)the agrarian lifestyle left little time for such diversions.
B)the South's honor culture found the rules distasteful.
C)the southern climate was prohibitive.
D)competition was frowned on in their region.

Question 38

The most decisive rejection of slavery on the part of the slave was

A)work sabotage.
B)the decision to run away.
C)malingering.
D)theft.

Question 39

Most poorer whites in the South

A)feared emancipation and grudgingly tolerated free blacks.
B)welcomed emancipation and free blacks.
C)feared emancipation but welcomed free blacks.
D)welcomed emancipation but did not want to live among freed slaves.

Question 40

In 1835 a Maine representative introduced a petition in Congress calling for the abolition of slavery in Washington,D.C. ,which resulted in the House

A)voting to table the motion.
B)conducting an investigation into the petition's signers.
C)voting down the proposal by a slim majority.
D)completely ignoring the petition.

Question 41

Subjects of conspiracy theories during the antebellum period included all of the following EXCEPT

A)abolitionists.
B)Catholics.
C)Presbyterians.
D)Mormons.

Question 42

Why did the domestic slave trade intensify in the U.S.even after the international slave trade had become illegal?

Question 43

Compare the arguments of northern abolitionists to the proslavery ideology of southerners.

Question 44

The Second Seminole War was fought not only to remove this native group from Florida,but also because

A)the Spanish continued to be a threat there.
B)the state had become a haven for runaway slaves.
C)the Seminole Indians had been conducting raids into southern Georgia.
D)Alabama plantation owners had designs on expanding into that state.

Question 45

Compare and contrast the slavery experience on plantations with that of cities during the antebellum period.

Question 46

In the 1830s Congress felt the most pressure over abolition from

A)racial violence in the South.
B)public protests.
C)proposed legislation.
D)petitions.

Question 47

President Jackson considered abolitionists

A)well intentioned civil servants.
B)direly mistaken "do-gooders."
C)"monsters."
D)relatively harmless trouble-makers.

Question 48

During the first 62 years of the presidency,fewer slaveholders would have held the position if it had not been for the

A)three-fifths clause.
B)two-party system.
C)proslavery ideology.
D)gag rule.

Question 49

President Jackson recognized the new Republic of Texas but did not propose annexation because

A)Texans had failed to author a state constitution.
B)he realized that Texas would be an unattractive destination to other Americans.
C)adding a new slaveholding territory would jeopardize Van Buren's presidential run.
D)he was preoccupied with Indian removal.

Question 50

Arguments made by slavery's defenders include all of the following ideas EXCEPT that

A)slave property was too valuable.
B)it would be impractical to send two million slaves to Africa.
C)it would be dangerous to leave slaves on American soil.
D)most slaves were content in their present situation.

Question 51

In 1831 William Lloyd Garrison began publishing The Liberator,in which he advocated for

A)gradual emancipation.
B)immediate emancipation of all slaves.
C)action by southern legislatures.
D)the colonization of blacks on Africa's west coast.

Question 52

In the 1830s the white population of Texas grew dramatically,mostly due to

A)missionary activity.
B)illegal migration.
C)invitation from the Mexican government.
D)disease that was decimating the Mexican population.

Question 53

Explain how and why cotton became so important,not only in the South,but also to the larger American economy.

Question 54

The Amistad case resulted in

A)the return of the escaped slaves back to their Cuban owners.
B)the sale of the slaves in the domestic American slave market.
C)the liberation of half of the slaves,based on how long they had been captive.
D)all the Amistad captives being set free,except for one.

Question 55

Summarize local and state efforts to regulate slavery after 1830,and the various expressions of slave resistance that followed.

Question 56

Analyze the role of slavery in events in both Florida and Texas in the 1830s.

Question 57

Explain the South's honor culture and its interaction with Christianity.