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