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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.   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.   had fewer children.
B.   were expected to be more subordinate to men.
C.   generally were less engaged with the economic life of the family.
D.   were more likely to take a role in public activities.
E.   tended to have more formal education.
Question #3
Most white southerners owned
A.   one slave.
B.   two slaves.
C.   six to ten slaves.
D.   three to five slaves.
E.   no 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.   perception of white racial superiority.
E.   contempt of northern capitalism.
Question #5
Prior to 1860, free blacks in the South
A.   occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves.
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.   increased in number in the 1850s, as laws encouraged owners to free “surplus” slaves.
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.   Nat Turner
B.   Frederick Douglass.
C.   Harriet Tubman.
D.   Gabriel Prosser.
E.   Denmark Vesey.
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.   highly unlikely.
B.   highly likely.
C.   unlikely.
D.   impossible.
E.   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.   subdrivers
B.   house servants
C.   head drivers
D.   craftsmen
E.   field hands

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