History 101 - United States History to 1877 » 2019 » Chapter 11 Quiz

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

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