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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.   was the dominant source of the income of the lower South.
C.   still had not adopted the cotton gin, despite the time and resources that could be saved.
D.   was already losing ground to other staples, such as rice and tobacco.
E.   saw wealthy planters outnumber small planters.
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.   tended to have more formal education.
D.   generally were less engaged with the economic life of the family.
E.   were more likely to take a role in public activities.
Question #3
Most white southerners owned
A.   one slave.
B.   two slaves.
C.   three to five slaves.
D.   six to ten slaves.
E.   no slaves.
Question #4
Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War southern whites was their
A.   contempt of northern capitalism.
B.   kinship relationships.
C.   intense national pride.
D.   fear of federal authority.
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.   occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves.
D.   avoided urban centers such as New Orleans or Natchez, where they might attract attention.
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.   Gabriel Prosser.
B.   Nat Turner
C.   Frederick Douglass.
D.   Harriet Tubman.
E.   Denmark Vesey.
Question #7
The central ideology of slavery, and the vital instrument of white control, was
A.   egalitarianism.
B.   sorority.
C.   paternalism.
D.   fraternity.
E.   maternalism.
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 likely.
B.   unlikely.
C.   highly 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.   house servants
B.   craftsmen
C.   head drivers
D.   field hands
E.   subdrivers

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