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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.   still had not adopted the cotton gin, despite the time and resources that could be saved.
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.   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 more likely to take a role in public activities.
C.   generally were less engaged with the economic life of the family.
D.   were expected to be more subordinate to men.
E.   tended to have more formal education.
Question #3
Most white southerners owned
A.   two slaves.
B.   six to ten slaves.
C.   one slave.
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.   contempt of northern capitalism.
B.   perception of white racial superiority.
C.   fear of federal authority.
D.   kinship relationships.
E.   intense national pride.
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.   increased in number in the 1850s, as laws encouraged owners to free “surplus” slaves.
E.   occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves.
Question #6
One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by
A.   Gabriel Prosser.
B.   Denmark Vesey.
C.   Nat Turner
D.   Harriet Tubman.
E.   Frederick Douglass.
Question #7
The central ideology of slavery, and the vital instrument of white control, was
A.   sorority.
B.   maternalism.
C.   egalitarianism.
D.   paternalism.
E.   fraternity.
Question #8
To “manumit” means to
A.   set free.
B.   purchase.
C.   deny.
D.   punish.
E.   work by hand.
Question #9
A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was
A.   highly unlikely.
B.   impossible.
C.   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.   field hands
B.   craftsmen
C.   house servants
D.   subdrivers
E.   head drivers

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