Christianity for African Americans
Was a religion of spiritual freedom helping blacks survive oppression.
The most important cause of the Old South's prosperity was
The English textile mills.
The increase in cotton production in the Lower South
Led to a thriving internal slave trade, dividing families.
Leaders of slave revolts in the nineteenth century included all of the following EXCEPT'
Absalom Jones.
African Americans sold under the internal slave trade
Were often resentful of the forced migration and labor.
The African-American slave population in the South grew as a result of higher birth rates because
Women adopted the practice of breastfeeding for one year.
African-American house servants in the South
Had to sacrifice their own families to care for the master's.
Life for the planter elite
Was based on the paternalistic belief that the plantation was one big family.
Marriage for slaves
Was a more equal partnership than whites had.
The internal slave trade after 1820
Involved little humane feeling but generated high profits.
The development of the South as a slave society
Made the master-slave relationship the model for the whole society.
Field work on the plantations
Was labor readily and commonly enforced by the overseer's whip.
The percentage of southern white people who owned slaves in 1830 was
36 percent
Changes in the South between 1830 and 1860 included
A greater feeling of insecurity among yeoman farmers.
One of the most common violations of the plantation as one big family with the master as benevolent father was
The forcible rape of black women by their masters.
Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831 caused a major reaction in the South for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
Turner was a religious person who had had visions.
African Americans were sustained during slavery by
Their ability to form bonds and a sense of community.
"Alabama Fever" is best described as
The zeal that southerners displayed for acquiring new lands in the deep South in order to grow cotton using slave labor.
The "Second Middle Passage" refers to:
The transportation of slaves from one region to another in the deep South
The cotton gin was important because
It meant that the demand for land among Southerners would increase.
The South became largely united in its defense of slavery after 1831 because of all of the following EXCEPT
The Denmark Vesey Conspiracy and the idea of northern meddling.
The map of population patterns in the South as of 1850 shows all of the following EXCEPT
The percentage of free blacks was 3 percent or more except in South Carolina and Georgia.
The profitability of cotton production contributed to all of the following EXCEPT
The development of a society offering equal economic opportunities to all.
The middle class in the South in the first half of the nineteenth century
Was viewed as grubby and dependent by the planters.
Enslaved African Americans generally used all of the following to survive or strike back at their masters EXCEPT
Refusing to learn a special skill that would help the master.
White Southern slave owners tended to accept all of the following propositions EXCEPT
African American children were, as playmates of white children, simply children.
The profitability of cotton led to all of the following EXCEPT
The fear that overproduction would reduce the South's influence.
The correct chronological order of the following events is:
Nat Turner's Revolt, Britain frees slaves in its Empire, Congress passes "gag rule," Hammond's "King Cotton" Speech.
The map showing Southern expansion westward by 1850 shows that
The Southerners had added six states by 1821 to the Northerners four.
The map of the distribution of slave labor by product shows that
More than fifty percent of all slaves worked in cotton.
Under the law, slaves were property and could be treated in all of the following ways EXCEPT
Killed.
The land booms and rapid movement into the Old Southwest were important for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
They benefited the whole range of Southern people.
Well-to-do southern whites saw poor southern whites as
A threat to the concept of white superiority.
The effects of slavery on marriage in the South included all of the following EXCEPT
It meant the states made slave marriages legal as a control mechanism.
The graph on slaveholding and class structure in the South as of 1830 shows that
The planters owning fifty or more slaves were 2.5 percent of the whites.
The life of yeoman farmers was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
A compulsion to prove one's worth by working for material success.
The graph on slaveholding and class structure in 1830 shows that
Class was largely unimportant for political decisions because race trumped class.
The measures taken by Southerners after 1831 to control slaves more tightly included all of the following EXCEPT
Proposing measures to prevent expansion, thereby isolating the South.
The Southerners who argued that slavery was not a necessary evil but a positive good included all of the following EXCEPT
Hinton Helper
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