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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.   was the dominant source of the income of the lower South.
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.   generally were less engaged with the economic life of the family.
B.   were expected to be more subordinate to men.
C.   were more likely to take a role in public activities.
D.   had fewer children.
E.   tended to have more formal education.
Question #3
Most white southerners owned
A.   two slaves.
B.   six to ten slaves.
C.   no slaves.
D.   three to five slaves.
E.   one slave.
Question #4
Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War southern whites was their
A.   perception of white racial superiority.
B.   contempt of northern capitalism.
C.   kinship relationships.
D.   intense national pride.
E.   fear of federal authority.
Question #5
Prior to 1860, free blacks in the South
A.   were required by law to leave the South.
B.   were concentrated in the Deep South.
C.   increased in number in the 1850s, as laws encouraged owners to free “surplus” slaves.
D.   occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves.
E.   avoided urban centers such as New Orleans or Natchez, where they might attract attention.
Question #6
One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by
A.   Nat Turner
B.   Harriet Tubman.
C.   Denmark Vesey.
D.   Gabriel Prosser.
E.   Frederick Douglass.
Question #7
The central ideology of slavery, and the vital instrument of white control, was
A.   egalitarianism.
B.   paternalism.
C.   maternalism.
D.   sorority.
E.   fraternity.
Question #8
To “manumit” means to
A.   purchase.
B.   work by hand.
C.   set free.
D.   punish.
E.   deny.
Question #9
A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was
A.   impossible.
B.   likely.
C.   unlikely.
D.   highly likely.
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.   head drivers
B.   house servants
C.   craftsmen
D.   subdrivers
E.   field hands

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