Exam 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

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

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.

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

Most enslaved blacks lived

Approximately one-third of southern whites owned slaves.

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

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

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

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

The slave codes of the American South

Within the American South,the institution of slavery

The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Southern whites who did not own slaves