Question 1

Within the slave family, women had special burdens, but also a special authority.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Southern whites who did not own slaves

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A)   rarely married into the families living on large slave plantations.
B)   openly opposed the planter elite.
C)   were forced to move west to maintain a livelihood.
D)   generally opposed the institution of slavery.
E)   were largely dependent on the plantation economy.F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 3

Prior to 1860, southern aristocratic ideals were largely myths.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

In the American slave family,

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A)   most couples did not formally marry.
B)   black women typically began bearing children later than white women.
C)   premarital pregnancy was uncommon.
D)   extended kinship networks were strong and important.
E)   premarital cohabitation was frowned upon.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 5

The southern planter class was quite similar to the landed aristocracies of Europe.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

In the mid-nineteenth century, slavery in the Western world existed only in the United States, Brazil, Cuba, and ________.

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Question 7

Household servants were often the first to leave plantations of their former owners when emancipation came after the Civil War.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War southern whites was their

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A)   kinship relationships.
B)   contempt of northern capitalism.
C)   perception of white racial superiority.
D)   fear of federal authority.
E)   intense national pride.F) D) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 9

The most important new product in the South during the mid-nineteenth century was ________ cotton.

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Question 10

Which of the following statements regarding slave life is true?

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A)   Slaves had to grow all of their own food.
B)   Slaves were not given medical care except by their own efforts.
C)   Slave children did no work until they turned twelve years old.
D)   It was uncommon to divide slave families for long periods of time.
E)   After 1808, the proportion of blacks to whites in the nation steadily declined.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 11

By 1860, the textile manufacturing sector of the American South

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A)   was nonexistent.
B)   had increased threefold in value over the previous twenty years.
C)   had declined in value throughout the 1840s and 1850s.
D)   was equal to one-third of the value of cotton exported that year.
E)   had come to dominate the South's economy.F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 12

The southern planter class exercised power far in excess of its numbers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Between 1800 and 1860, was slavery in the American South becoming stronger or weaker? Explain.

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Between 1800 and 1860, slavery in the Am...

Question 14

The typical white southerners who were not great planters or slaveowners were known as "________."

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Question 15

Describe the nature of slave codes and the legal justifications that southern states and owners used for the institution of slavery.

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Slave codes were laws enacted by souther...

Question 16

Southern, white, lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in

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A)   the cities.
B)   river and ocean port towns.
C)   the upper South.
D)   the mountain regions.
E)   the Deep South.F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 17

Most enslaved black couples married with formal wedding vows.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Most "plain folk" of the Old South

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A)   owned at least one slave.
B)   were never able to move into the planter class.
C)   were passionately antislavery.
D)   were subsistence farmers who owned at least one slave.
E)   were subsistence farmers who were passionately antislavery.F) All of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 19

Most often, resistance to slavery took the form of open rebellion.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The banjo was an important instrument in slave music.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

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Southern, white, lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in

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Most enslaved black couples married with formal wedding vows.

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Which of the following statements regarding slave life is true?

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The banjo was an important instrument in slave music.

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