Deck 11: The Peculiar Institution

Question 1

What resulted from the sexual exploitation of slave women?

A) Church ministers criticized the activity as a sin.
B) Most slave men were unaware of the exploitation of their wives and relatives.
C) Some wives of plantation owners resented when this happened and then punished slaves.
D) Many of the babies that resulted from the exploitation were sent to Africa.
E) Slaveowners often publicly discussed their exploitations.

Answer 1

Some wives of plantation owners resented when this happened and then punished slaves.

Question 2

The U.S. slave population by 1860 was approximately:

A) 1 million.
B) 2 million.
C) 3 million.
D) 4 million.
E) 5 million.

Answer 2

4 million.

Question 3

The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons from:

A) older states like Virginia to the Lower South.
B) Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland.
C) the West Indies to the Mississippi River Valley.
D) the Lower South to the Upper South.
E) the lower Mississippi River Valley to the upper Mississippi River Valley.

Answer 3

older states like Virginia to the Lower South.

Question 4

To qualify as a member of the planter class, a person had to be engaged in southern agriculture and:

A) own at least ten slaves.
B) grow specifically cotton or sugarcane.
C) own at least twenty slaves.
D) live in a large mansion.
E) own at least fifty slaves.

Question 5

From 1800 to 1860, which of the following occurred to the South and its economy?

A) Southern cities, Dallas and Houston, had the most slaves.
B) The South manufactured about half of the cotton textiles.
C) Because the South was a slave society, most immigrants stayed away.
D) Slavery was not profitable for most slaveowners.
E) Southern banks' biggest customers were small-shop craftsmen.

Question 6

The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers:

A) led to numerous violent uprisings in the southern hill country.
B) was complicated by the strong antislavery movement among poor farmers in the 1850s.
C) was strained by planters' insistence that farmers participate in the slave patrols.
D) showed itself in politics, as most poor farmers became Whigs and most wealthy planters became Democrats.
E) benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders.

Question 7

Which event is credited with helping to ingrain the paternalist ethos more deeply into the lives of southern slaveholders?

A) Nat Turner's Rebellion.
B) The nullification crisis.
C) The development of domestic ideology.
D) The closing of the African slave trade.
E) The secession crisis.

Question 8

Frederick Douglass argued that:

A) slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans.
B) the United States should adopt a gradual emancipation plan that would eliminate slavery within forty years.
C) free blacks would be better off if they moved to Liberia, where a colony of former American slaves had been founded.
D) blacks should not serve in the U.S. army during the Civil War because of the racial discrimination they faced.
E) free African-Americans should "let down their buckets where they were" and accept inequality, at least for a period of time.

Question 9

Which of the following would have been a reflection of the paternalist ethos in southern slavery?

A) Slaves saw the slaveholder as their true parent.
B) Abolitionists in the North became more accepting of slavery.
C) It could result in fewer sales of slaves and more keeping of slave families together.
D) The owner felt responsible for his slaves because the slaves could not take care of themselves.
E) As slavery became paternalistic, more owners freed their slaves.

Question 10

A slave who worked primarily in cotton fields most likely lived in:

A) Richmond, Virginia.
B) western North Carolina.
C) Natchez, Mississippi.
D) Jacksonville, Florida.
E) eastern Tennessee.

Question 11

Why could someone argue that the North was complicit in the expansion of slavery?

A) Many northern states had slaves at one time.
B) Some slaves ran away to northern states.
C) Some slaveholders were originally from the North.
D) Most in the North wanted to reopen the importation of slaves.
E) Northern factory demand for cotton steadily increased.

Question 12

In 1850, a majority of southern slaveholders owned how many slaves?

A) 1 to 5.
B) 6 to 10.
C) 15 to 20.
D) 25 to 30.
E) at least 35.

Question 13

In the nineteenth century, which product was the world's major crop produced by slave labor?

A) Tobacco.
B) Indigo.
C) Sorghum.
D) Cotton.
E) Rice.

Question 14

Southern farmers in the backcountry:

A) generally worked the land using family labor.
B) were all directly involved in the market economy from the start of the nineteenth century.
C) owned a substantial number of slaves.
D) were highly self-sufficient but still bought most of their supplies from stores.
E) were fortunate that their land was far better for farming than that owned by planters.

Question 15

What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?

A) It was minimal, which explains why northerners opposed slavery.
B) Many northerners profited from investing in real-estate partnerships that controlled southern plantations.
C) A few New York shipping companies benefited from slavery, but the institution had little effect otherwise.
D) Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.
E) Southern slavery drained resources from the North and helped keep the whole nation in a depression during the 1850s.

Question 16

Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political power:

A) because of their membership in and identification with the planter class.
B) in the 1850s, as members of the small but influential southern Republican Party.
C) as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters.
D) as proponents of gradual emancipation plans in order to destroy the "slavocracy."
E) after gaining popularity for creating public education systems in their states.

Question 17

In the South, the paternalist ethos:

A) reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him.
B) declined after the War of 1812 as southern society became more centered on market relations rather than on personal relations.
C) suffered because southern slaveholders lived among their slaves, so that the groups' constant exposure to each other made southern slavery more openly violent than elsewhere.
D) brought southern society closer to northern ideals.
E) encouraged southern women to become more active and better educated so that they could help their husbands in their paternal roles.

Question 18

On the eve of the Civil War, approximately how much of the world's cotton supply came from the southern United States?

A) 90 percent.
B) 75 percent.
C) 50 percent.
D) 33 percent.
E) 25 percent.

Question 19

What did paternalism reinforce?

A) Slaves must formally get married.
B) Slaves need to be watched carefully.
C) Slaves must practice Christianity on their own.
D) Slaves should learn how to read.
E) Slave children should be taught right from wrong by their parents.

Question 20

In 1860, what percentage of southern white families were in the slaveowning class?

A) 10 percent.
B) 25 percent.
C) 40 percent.
D) 55 percent.
E) 75 percent.

Question 21

When comparing colonial slavery to nineteenth-century slavery, what was a major difference?

A) In the colonial period, slaves rarely worked in cotton fields.
B) Few slaves in the colonial period had a desire to run away.
C) The colonial period had no cash crops.
D) Slaves in the nineteenth century had a stronger feeling of connection to Africa.
E) Slaves in the nineteenth century were more accepting of their condition.

Question 22

Which of the following statements is accurate about the work done by southern slaves?

A) The leasing of slaves ended by 1800.
B) Slaves were prohibited from supervising white laborers.
C) By the time of the Civil War, about 200,000 worked in industrial-type occupations.
D) The federal government used only ex-slaves to build public structures in the South.
E) After not being able to abolish slavery in the 1830s in Virginia, the state banned slaves from doing work in tobacco fields.

Question 23

Why did southern slaves live in better conditions by the mid-nineteenth century than those in the Caribbean and South America?

A) They did not; slaves led vastly healthier lives in regions other than the American South.
B) Southern Protestant churches encouraged better treatment of southern slaves than the Roman Catholic Church did with slaves in the Caribbean and South America.
C) The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slaveowners to take better care of them.
D) Laws in the South were far more protective of slaves than were laws concerning slaves elsewhere.
E) Southern slaves had a greater likelihood of becoming free than did other New World slaves.

Question 24

John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh:

A) agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good.
B) fought a famous duel that demonstrated the southern commitment to the idea of defending one's honor.
C) competed for power in Andrew Jackson's administration.
D) were known as two of the most vicious slaveholders, who regularly whipped their slaves.
E) agreed on the need for slavery but disagreed as to whether it was beneficial to society.

Question 25

In the New Testament, Jesus did not condemn slavery. What did this mean to southern slaveholders?

A) The Bible was not good for defending slavery.
B) The New Testament could be used to endorse slavery.
C) Jesus was a slaveholder.
D) Slavery did not exist in the ancient Middle East.
E) Jesus left the freeing of slaves to Moses.

Question 26

Urban slaves:

A) most often were domestic servants.
B) was a term coined by southerners to describe northern factory workers.
C) had less autonomy than plantation slaves because there were more authorities to watch them.
D) could work on their own and always kept the majority of their earnings.
E) increasingly replaced skilled white laborers as the Civil War approached.

Question 27

What was the key to developing an African-American slave community?

A) There was no slave community.
B) Slaves needed to be set free by their masters.
C) Slaves had to escape bondage before developing a community.
D) Slaves needed to have family members near them.
E) Slaves had to forget their African pasts.

Question 28

Celia was:

A) the pen name of Floride Calhoun, who secretly criticized her husband, John's, views on slavery.
B) a slave tried for killing her master while resisting a sexual assault.
C) the name used to signify a southern plantation mistress in writings about the institution.
D) a slave who became famous for helping other slaves escape via the Underground Railroad.
E) a character in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Question 29

Free blacks in the South were allowed to:

A) own property.
B) be bought and sold.
C) carry a firearm.
D) testify in court.
E) vote.

Question 30

The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. According to the text, what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had?

A) Requiring slaves to attend church.
B) The threat of sale.
C) Exploiting the divisions among slaves.
D) Withholding food.
E) Denying a marriage between two slaves.

Question 31

Where did the task labor system originate?

A) It came from villages in West Africa.
B) It had been used in rural areas of England.
C) It started in the cotton belt areas of Mississippi and Alabama.
D) It had been recommended by southern Native American tribes.
E) It was a holdover from the colonial period.

Question 32

In an 1840 letter written from Canada, fugitive slave Joseph Taper asked for divine blessings upon:

A) the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe.
B) his former master.
C) President Martin Van Buren.
D) abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
E) Queen Victoria.

Question 33

Jumping over a broomstick was a ceremony celebrating:

A) a fugitive slave arriving in a free state.
B) a slave marriage.
C) the birth of a slave baby.
D) surviving the Middle Passage.
E) a slave's promotion from field hand to domestic servant.

Question 34

Slave families:

A) were rare because there were too few female slaves.
B) were more common in the West Indies, where living conditions favored their formation and survival.
C) were headed by women more frequently than were white families.
D) usually were able to stay together because most slaveowners were paternalistic.
E) avoided naming children for family members because children so often were sold, and it was better not to build strong kinship ties.

Question 35

Which of the following statements about slavery and the law is true?

A) Because slaves were property, a master could kill any of his slaves for any reason.
B) Slaves were legally permitted to possess guns if guns were necessary for their work (tasks such as scaring birds away from rice fields, for example).
C) Laws specifically provided for a slave to be taught to read and write if the master so chose.
D) A slave could, with permission from his or her master, testify against a white person in court.
E) Slaves accused of serious crimes were entitled to their day in court, although they faced all-white judges and juries.

Question 36

One study showed that how many slave men in the South did agricultural work?

A) 50 percent.
B) 60 percent.
C) 70 percent.
D) 80 percent.
E) 90 percent.

Question 37

Defenders of American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830s had been a failure because:

A) many newly freed slaves moved to West Africa, where they became reenslaved later.
B) of the violence it spawned in the West Indies during the 1840s.
C) many of those freed had moved to the United States, where they could obtain only menial jobs.
D) the freed slaves grew less sugarcane, which hurt the economy of the Caribbean.
E) the freed slaves could not take care of themselves and many begged their ex-masters to support them.

Question 38

Who said that the language in the Declaration of Independence-that all men were created equal and entitled to liberty-was "the most false and dangerous of all political errors"?

A) James Madison.
B) James G. Birney.
C) John C. Calhoun.
D) Denmark Vesey.
E) Solomon Northup.

Question 39

In Joseph Taper's letter to Joseph Long, how does Taper analyze his experience of living in Canada?

A) Living under a monarchy was difficult.
B) The treatment of slaves in Canada was abysmal.
C) Blacks did not receive educational opportunities.
D) The winter weather was bitterly cold.
E) It has been the happiest month of his life.

Question 40

Gender roles under slavery:

A) were the same as those that existed in white society.
B) differed from those of white society because men and women alike suffered a sense of powerlessness.
C) greatly differed from those of whites when slaves were able to work on their own; the men took on more women's work and vice versa.
D) meant that slave husbands refused to let their wives work in the fields.
E) were unaffected by the ability of masters to take advantage of female slaves sexually.

Question 41

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Andrew Johnson

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 42

The slave rebellion aboard the Amistad:

A) nearly captured a fort in Charleston, South Carolina.
B) led to a Supreme Court decision freeing the slaves.
C) inspired the gag rule.
D) took place off the coast of Virginia.
E) helped establish the Republic of Haiti.

Question 43

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Nat Turner

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 44

Which statement about Nat Turner's Rebellion is true?

A) Turner and his followers assaulted mostly men.
B) Fewer than twenty whites were killed during the rebellion.
C) Turner escaped capture.
D) Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion.
E) It occurred in Georgia.

Question 45

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Frederick Douglass

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 46

What role did Christianity play in slavery?

A) Few slaves were interested in Christianity, so they stayed focused on their traditional African religions.
B) Few slaveholders wanted their slaves to learn.
C) Teaching slaves about Christianity helped to reinforce the owners' ideas on paternalism.
D) Slaves rejected the story of Moses as untrue.
E) Slave preachers struggled to win respect among fellow slaves.

Question 47

Compared to slave revolts in Brazil and in the West Indies, slave revolts in the United States were:

A) larger in scale but less frequent.
B) smaller in scale but more frequent.
C) larger in scale and more frequent.
D) smaller in scale and less frequent.
E) bloodier and more successful.

Question 48

The Brer Rabbit stories of slave folklore:

A) celebrated how the weak could outsmart the more powerful.
B) borrowed heavily from English folktales but did add some African elements.
C) formed the basis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
D) introduced the character Paul Bunyan to American culture.
E) were largely unknown until the making of a series of animated films in the twentieth century.

Question 49

Seeing themselves as a chosen people, blacks viewed which Biblical story as playing a central role in their version of Christianity?

A) Genesis.
B) Jonah and the whale.
C) Moses and the exodus from Egypt.
D) Noah and the ark.
E) Book of Revelation.

Question 50

Harriet Tubman:

A) was a mythical character about whom runaway slaves told many stories.
B) led a slave rebellion in Maryland in 1849 that resulted in two dozen deaths.
C) although born free in New York, was kidnapped and made a slave in Louisiana.
D) cleverly escaped from slavery by pretending to be a sickly male slaveowner.
E) was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery.

Question 51

The Haitian slave revolt was successful and the attempts by Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner ultimately failed because:

A) slaves in the United States had less desire to be free.
B) slaves in Haiti had the help of the Spanish government.
C) Haiti had a population that was primarily of African heritage while most of the United States had a higher percentage of whites.
D) none of the black leaders of revolts in the United States were literate.
E) In the United States, the slaves rebelling had no weapons.

Question 52

Before his execution, how did Nat Turner see himself?

A) He felt guilty about the killing of whites.
B) He felt he was dying for the sin of slavery.
C) He regretted that he did not escape permanently.
D) He felt as if he had wasted his time.
E) He felt as if he should have joined forces with John Brown.

Question 53

A slave from which state had the best chance of escaping to freedom permanently?

A) Alabama
B) Tennessee
C) South Carolina
D) Florida
E) Mississippi

Question 54

Fugitive slaves:

A) generally understood that the North Star led to freedom.
B) were more likely to be women than men, because they were trying to escape sexual assault.
C) succeeded in escaping more frequently from the Deep South because they had access to ships leaving ports like New Orleans and Charleston.
D) benefited from the refusal of non-slaveowners to participate in patrols that looked for fugitives.
E) who escaped to Canada were routinely returned to slavery by the British authorities.

Question 55

After an 1831 slave rebellion, which state's legislature debated, but did not approve, a plan for gradual emancipation of slaves in that state?

A) Virginia.
B) South Carolina.
C) Maryland.
D) North Carolina.
E) Louisiana.

Question 56

What was the Underground Railroad?

A) It used a system of railways to transport slaves.
B) It was a loose organization of sympathetic abolitionists.
C) It used a single, centralized system with tunnels for slaves.
D) It employed encrypted codes and clearly defined routes and stations.
E) It helped 100,000 slaves to escape.

Question 57

Which of the following statements about religious life among African-Americans in southern cities is true?

A) Blacks usually worshipped in churches where they sat side-by-side with whites.
B) Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches.
C) African-Americans, free and slave, were banned from religious services.
D) Free blacks could worship publicly, but slaves were not permitted to do so.
E) The formation of the Afro-Catholic Church in 1844 was a major development in black Christianity.

Question 58

Denmark Vesey's conspiracy:

A) reflected a combination of American and African influences.
B) took place in 1831 and was a success.
C) reflected the belief of the conspirators that the Bible endorsed slavery.
D) was discovered, but Vesey escaped North to freedom.
E) resulted in over twenty deaths of white men, women, and children.

Question 59

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Celia

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 60

Which of the following would be an example of "silent sabotage"?

A) With other slaves, Denmark Vesey planned a rebellion.
B) Joseph Taper escaped to Canada and then wrote a letter about his new home.
C) Nat Turner killed a white person during his rebellion.
D) A slave on a large plantation slowed down the work pace.
E) Harriet Tubman helped lead slaves to freedom.

Question 61

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Second Middle Passage

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 62

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
proslavery argument

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 63

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
paternalism

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 64

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Brer Rabbit

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 65

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Moses

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 66

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Joseph Taper

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 67

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Denmark Vesey

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 68

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
overseer

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 69

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
John Quincy Adams

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 70

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Underground Railroad

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 71

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Harriet Tubman

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 72

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
fugitive slaves

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 73

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Martin Van Buren

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 74

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Vesey conspiracy

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 75

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
silent sabotage

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 76

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
peculiar institution

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 77

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
John C. Calhoun

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada

Question 78

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
gang labor

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 79

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Southern cotton

A)system to help slaves escape to the North
B)slave trade within the United States
C)poor work and breakage of tools
D)slavery
E)managed slaves in the field
F)three-fourths of the world's supply
G)treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H)working in the fields side-by-side
I)escaped bondage
J)Charleston, South Carolina
K)guaranteed equality for whites
L)trickster tale

Question 80

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
George Fitzhugh

A)southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B)led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D)favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E)escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F)slave executed for conspiracy
G)defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H)outspoken proslavery politician
I)part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J)slave executed for killing her master
K)Exodus
L)fled to Canada