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Question #1
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the “cotton kingdom”
A.   saw wealthy planters outnumber small planters.
B.   did not rely on large numbers of slaves imported directly from Africa.
C.   still had not adopted the cotton gin, despite the time and resources that could be saved.
D.   was the dominant source of the income of the lower South.
E.   was already losing ground to other staples, such as rice and tobacco.
Question #2
Prior to 1860, southern women differed from northern women in that they
A.   tended to have more formal education.
B.   generally were less engaged with the economic life of the family.
C.   were more likely to take a role in public activities.
D.   were expected to be more subordinate to men.
E.   had fewer children.
Question #3
Most white southerners owned
A.   six to ten slaves.
B.   no slaves.
C.   one slave.
D.   two slaves.
E.   three to five slaves.
Question #4
Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War southern whites was their
A.   fear of federal authority.
B.   intense national pride.
C.   kinship relationships.
D.   contempt of northern capitalism.
E.   perception of white racial superiority.
Question #5
Prior to 1860, free blacks in the South
A.   were required by law to leave the South.
B.   increased in number in the 1850s, as laws encouraged owners to free “surplus” slaves.
C.   avoided urban centers such as New Orleans or Natchez, where they might attract attention.
D.   occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves.
E.   were concentrated in the Deep South.
Question #6
One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by
A.   Harriet Tubman.
B.   Frederick Douglass.
C.   Gabriel Prosser.
D.   Nat Turner
E.   Denmark Vesey.
Question #7
The central ideology of slavery, and the vital instrument of white control, was
A.   paternalism.
B.   sorority.
C.   maternalism.
D.   egalitarianism.
E.   fraternity.
Question #8
To “manumit” means to
A.   work by hand.
B.   set free.
C.   purchase.
D.   punish.
E.   deny.
Question #9
A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was
A.   highly unlikely.
B.   likely.
C.   highly likely.
D.   unlikely.
E.   impossible.
Question #10
When emancipation came after the Civil War, it was often the ________ who were the first to leave the plantation of their former owners.
A.   subdrivers
B.   head drivers
C.   field hands
D.   craftsmen
E.   house servants

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