Question 1

Though the trade and sale of slaves continued to be legal inside the U.S.until the Civil War,the "slave trade," the importation of slaves from Africa or any other foreign locale,was made illegal in

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A)   1808.
B)   1809.
C)   1812.
D)   1815.
E)   None of these answers is correct.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E) A

Question 2

Within the American South,the institution of slavery

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A)   isolated blacks and whites from each other.
B)   created a unique bond between masters and slaves.
C)   encouraged blacks to develop a society and culture of their own.
D)   created a unique bond between masters and slaves, while isolating blacks and whites from each other and encouraging blacks to develop a society and culture of their own.
E)   None of these answers is correct.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 3

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) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 4

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

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Question 5

The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to

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A)   the plantation.
B)   manufacturing.
C)   capitalism.
D)   slavery.
E)   democracy.F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 6

Compare and contrast the nature of the black slave family and culture with the free white family and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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During the first half of the nineteenth ...

Question 7

The slave system may have created separate spheres for blacks and whites,but each race was nonetheless dependent on the other.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 8

What obstacles to industrialization existed in the South during the nineteenth century?

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There were several obstacles to industri...

Question 9

Prior to 1860,the center of economic power in the South

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A)   was in Charleston, S.C.
B)   remained, as it had been, primarily within the upper South.
C)   remained, as it had been, primarily within the lower South.
D)   shifted from the lower South to the upper South.
E)   shifted from the upper South to the lower South.F) D) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 10

Describe the distinguishing class features of the people who were known as "planters," "plain folk," "hill people," or "crackers."

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The distinguishing class features of the...

Question 11

During the first half of the nineteenth century,the center of economic power in the South shifted from the upper South to the lower South.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 12

Approximately one-third of southern whites owned slaves.

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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

Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum South?

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A)   A child of a slave could not be sold after he or she had reached three years of age.
B)   Blacks typically had weaker family ties than did whites, due to the uncertainties of their lives.
C)   Up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members.
D)   Most slaves who ran away did so to avoid punishment.
E)   Newly arrived slaves to a plantation were often shunned by the black community.F) A) and C)
G) All of the above

Question 15

As compared to nineteenth-century white practices,religious services for American slaves

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A)   were not allowed, by law, to mention freedom.
B)   were often more emotional.
C)   were generally more despondent and melancholy than white services.
D)   denied all references to their African heritage.
E)   emphasized subservience and submission to God.F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 16

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 17

The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the

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A)   Frederick Douglass road.
B)   underground railroad.
C)   Fugitive Slave Act.
D)   Cumberland passage.
E)   Second Middle Passage.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 18

Most enslaved blacks lived

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A)   on small farms.
B)   on medium- to large-sized plantations.
C)   in urban areas.
D)   in rigidly-controlled circumstances.
E)   in Virginia and the Carolinas.F) B) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 19

By the mid-nineteenth century,slavery in the western world existed only in the American South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The slave codes of the American South

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A)   defined anyone with a trace of African ancestry as black.
B)   legalized slave marriages.
C)   were rigidly enforced.
D)   considered it a crime for an owner to kill a slave.
E)   banned blacks from attending church.F) B) and D)
G) A) and D)

Exam 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

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