Question 1

The "peculiar institution" was _________________.

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Question 2

What were the differences between being a slave in the city and a slave in the country?

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Question 3

Compare and contrast the working and living conditions of black Southern slaves to the lives of white Northern factory workers during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Question 4

The typical white Southerners who were not great planters or slave-owners were known as "____________."

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Question 5

Prior to 1860, how did the role and status of Southern women compare to that of Northern women?

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Question 6

In the mid-nineteenth century, slavery in the Western world existed only in the United States, Brazil, ___________and _____________.

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Question 7

In the first half of the nineteenth century, why did cotton become the major economic crop of the American South?

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Question 8

What is the difference between slave resistance and slave rebellion? Why was one more prevalent than the other?

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Question 9

Describe the distinguishing class features of the people who were known as either "planters," "plain folk," "hill people," or "crackers."

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Question 10

Consider the American revolutionary era in the 1760s and 1770s with the slave revolts of the 1820s and 1830s.What factors made participants in the slave revolts much less likely to succeed in their struggle for independence?

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Question 11

Explain why the Southern economy remained largely agricultural during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Question 12

One of the most frequent causes of flight from a slave plantation was to _________.

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Question 13

Compare and contrast the nature of the slave black family and culture with the free white family and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Question 14

_______________ led the only actual slave revolt in the United States in the nineteenth century.

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Question 15

What obstacles to industrialization existed in the South during the nineteenth century?

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Question 16

To overcome communication barriers, African slaves learned a simple, common language known as "___________" English.

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Question 17

_________________ was the leader of an aborted slave revolt in South Carolina in the early 1820s.

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Question 18

Between 1800 and 1860, was slavery in the American South becoming stronger or weaker? Explain.

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Quiz 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South