Deck 15: The South and the Slavery Controversy

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of Frederick Douglass.

Answer 1

Author of the autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Douglass was a politically active and influential abolitionist.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of Denmark Vesey.

Answer 2

Free black man who led a failed slave revolt in South Carolina.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of Elijah P. Lovejoy.

Answer 3

Abolitionist who was killed in a gun battle with an anti-abolitionist mob in 1837.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of David Walker.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of responsorial.

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of John Quincy Adams.

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of William Wilberforce.

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of William T. Johnson.

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the plantation system.

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of Sojourner Truth.

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of Nat Turner.

Question 12

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Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of Martin Delany.

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the breakers.

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the mulatto population.

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of William Lloyd Garrison.

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the black belt.

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of oligarchy.

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of Theodore Dwight Weld.

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of abolitionism.

Question 22

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Question 23

All the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom EXCEPT

A) cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840.
B) the South produced more than half the entire world's supply of cotton.
C) 75 percent of the British supply of cotton came from the South.
D) quick profits from cotton drew planters to its economic enterprise.
E) the South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade.

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of Cotton Kingdom.

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of Lane Rebels.

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the West Africa Squadron.

Question 27

Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because

A) it relied mainly on artificial means to fertilize the soil.
B) it required leaving cropland fallow every other year.
C) excessive water was used for irrigation.
D) it was too diversified, thus taking essential nutrients from the soil.
E) its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land.

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Question 29

Members of the Planter aristocracy

A) produced fewer front-rank statesmen than the North.
B) dominated society and politics in the South.
C) provided democratic rule in the South.
D) promoted tax-supported public education.
E) were much more progressive about race and black people than white yeoman farmers and laborers in the South.

Question 30

Plantation mistresses

A) were frequently assaulted by vengeful slaves.
B) were primarily responsible for controlling the plantation's male slaves.
C) frequently supported abolitionism.
D) commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.
E) were almost universally loved by their slaves.

Question 31

The plantation system of the Cotton South before the Civil War

A) resembled a tightly controlled oligarchy in its monopolistic features.
B) became more democratic and open to newcomers.
C) was very financially stable over many years.
D) was attractive to European immigrants.
E) included no expectation that planter aristocrats had any obligation to serve the public as politicians or statesmen.

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

Question 33

As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin

A) fewer slaves were needed on the plantations.
B) short-staple cotton lost popularity.
C) slavery was reinvigorated in the South.
D) Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery.
E) the African slave trade was legalized.

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of Liberia.

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of "positive good".

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the Amistad.

Question 38

All of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system EXCEPT that

A) it relied on the destructive one-crop economy of cotton and failed to institute a system of crop rotation.
B) it repelled a large-scale European immigration.
C) it stimulated racism among poor whites.
D) it created an aristocratic political elite.
E) its land continued to remain predominately in the hands of the small farmers.

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of The Liberator.

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the American Colonization Society.

Question 41

By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the

A) border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland.
B) Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
C) old South states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
D) new Southwest states of Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory.
E) mountain regions of Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

Question 42

As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the

A) promise of eventual freedom.
B) reward of some legal rights.
C) the promise to slaves of a grant of private property to do tenant farming after a period of years of bondage.
D) whip as a motivator.
E) threat of death.

Question 43

Northern attitudes toward free blacks before the Civil War have been described as

A) supporting blacks right to full citizenship and higher education.
B) disliking the race but professing appreciation for individual blacks.
C) advocating black movement into the new territories.
D) politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.
E) disliking individual blacks, even accomplished blacks such as Frederick Douglass, but professing admiration for the black race.

Question 44

Slavery's greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was

A) the enforced separation of slave families, whose members could be sold away from each other.
B) slaveowners' frequent use of the whip.
C) the breeding of slaves.
D) having to do the most dangerous work on the plantation.
E) forcible sexual assault by slaveowners.

Question 45

Most white southerners were

A) planter aristocrats.
B) small slaveowners.
C) merchants and artisans.
D) "poor white trash."
E) subsistence farmers.

Question 46

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852 by

A) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B) William Lloyd Garrison.
C) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
D) Margaret Fuller.
E) Harriet Tubman.

Question 47

____ million black people were enslaved in the South in 1860. .

A) One
B) Two
C) Four
D) Eight
E) Ten

Question 48

By the mid-19^th century

A) most southerners owned slaves.
B) the smaller slaveholders owned a majority of the slaves.
C) most slaves lived on large plantations.
D) slavery was a dying institution.
E) southerners were growing defensive about slavery.

Question 49

The profitable southern slave system

A) hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole.
B) saw many slaves moving to the upper South.
C) led to the textile industry's development in the South first.
D) relied almost totally on importing slaves to meet the unquenchable demand for labor.
E) failed to prompt most planters to regard their slaves as investments to be cared for and monitored like any other asset.

Question 50

By 1860, the overwhelming majority of all southern whites did not own slaves, but instead

A) lived and worked as laborers, artisans, or tradesmen in the emerging cities of the South.
B) eked out a living in the mountains and backcountry raising corn and hogs.
C) owned small farms where they and their families raised cotton.
D) farmed an annually rotated sequential mix of wheat, tobacco, rice, and cotton.
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 51

For free blacks living in the North

A) living conditions were nearly equal to those for whites.
B) voting rights were widespread.
C) good jobs were plentiful.
D) education opened the door to economic opportunity.
E) discrimination concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public education was common.

Question 52

The most pro-Union of the white southerners were

A) plantation owners.
B) mountain whites residing in the Appalachian range.
C) small slaveowners.
D) non-slaveowning subsistence farmers.
E) mistresses of southern plantation owners.

Question 53

____ of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding family.

A) One-fourth
B) One-third
C) Half
D) Fifteen percent
E) Five percent

Question 54

The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the 19^th century was largely due to

A) the reopening of the African slave trade in 1808.
B) larger imports of slaves from the West Indies.
C) natural reproduction.
D) re-enslavement of free blacks.
E) the forced, cattle-like breeding of slaves by white masters living in states of the Old South such as Virginia.

Question 55

As their main agricultural crop, southern subsistence farmers raised

A) cotton.
B) tobacco.
C) corn.
D) wheat.
E) sugar cane.

Question 56

Slaves regarded the least prosperous, non-slaveholding whites as

A) potential, yet undesirable, masters.
B) their equals in doing the least desirable work.
C) violent, rabble-rousers who often picked on slaves.
D) hillbillies and "poor white trash"-too lazy and shiftless to work productively.
E) potential allies in slave revolts against planter aristocrats.

Question 57

Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of

A) the prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade after 1807.
B) purchase by northern abolitionists.
C) fleeing to mountain hideaways.
D) purchasing their way out of slavery with money earned after hours.
E) the objection to slaveholding by some white women.

Question 58

The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because

A) they opposed slavery.
B) they could not afford the purchase price.
C) their urban location did not require them.
D) their racism would not allow them to work alongside African Americans.
E) they feared the possibility of slave revolts.

Question 59

European immigration to the South was discouraged most profoundly by

A) fierce economic competition with slave labor.
B) an unfavorable experience of growing cotton in Europe by German and Irish immigrant groups.
C) German, Irish, and Jewish antislavery groups.
D) immigration barriers enacted by southern states.
E) the inability of European immigrants to tolerate the hot climate.

Question 60

All of the following are true statements about free blacks EXCEPT

A) they were banned from entering several northern states.
B) they were always vulnerable to being hijacked back into slavery in the South.
C) slaveholders feared that they were living examples of what might be achieved with emancipation.
D) in the North, they forged ties with the Irish, who similarly worked in menial jobs.
E) most states denied them the right to vote.

Question 61

Match each abolitionist below with his publication.

A) A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2
B) A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1
C) A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
D) A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4
E) A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3

Question 62

Cotton became important to the prosperity of the North as well as the South because

A) about two-thirds of the southern cotton crop was sold to New England textile mills.
B) northern merchants handled the shipping of southern cotton.
C) cotton accounted for about half the value of all United States exports after 1840.
D) northern farmers profited from selling their foodstuffs to feed southern slaves.
E) northern investors controlled the cotton futures markets.

Question 63

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to

A) shipping freed blacks back to Africa.
B) supporting armed slave insurrections against all white slaveholders in the South.
C) preventing the expansion of slavery beyond the South.
D) forming an antislavery political party.
E) the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.

Question 64

The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was

A) proposed by Timothy Dwight Weld.
B) proposed by John Quincy Adams.
C) advocated by Frederick Douglass.
D) suggested by political leaders of the African nation of Liberia.
E) supported by the black leader Martin Delaney.

Question 65

The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was

A) a recognition of blacks' desire to preserve their culture.
B) never carried out.
C) advocated by Frederick Douglass.
D) proposed by the African nation of Liberia.
E) an expression of widespread American racism.

Question 66

All of the following were characteristic of slaves in the mid-19^th-cntury United States EXCEPT

A) slaves had no civil or political rights.
B) slaves usually toiled from dusk to dawn in the fields.
C) slaves had minimal protection from murder or unusually cruel punishment.
D) slaves were forbidden to testify in court and their marriages were not legal.
E) floggings were very uncommon and rare.

Question 67

Arrange the following in chronological order: the founding of the (A) American Colonization Society, (B) American Anti-Slavery Society, and (C) Liberty party.

A) A, B, C
B) C, A, B
C) B, C, A
D) A, C, B
E) C, B, A

Question 68

Match each abolitionist below with his role in the movement.

A) A-4, B-2, C-l, D-3
B) A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3
C) A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2
D) A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
E) A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4

Question 69

The voice of white southern abolitionism fell silent at the beginning of the

A) 1810s.
B) 1820s.
C) 1830s.
D) 1840s.
E) 1850s.

Question 70

In Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery, the contemporary historian Eugene Genovese agrees with previous historians of American slavery that

A) this southern institution embraced a form of economic paternalism which reflected the need of southern slaveholders to control and coax labor out of their reluctant and recalcitrant "investments."
B) southern slaveholders actually treated slaves with a kindly and caring paternalism throughout the lives of most slaves.
C) blacks were inferior and submissive by nature, facilitating their participation in the institution of southern slavery.
D) blacks did not abhor the coercive social and economic institution that enslaved them.
E) this southern institution was not underpinned by racist attitudes by southern slaveholders and most other southerners as well.

Question 71

Slaves fought the system of slavery by

A) slowing down the pace of their labor.
B) conducting periodic slave rebellions.
C) sabotaging expensive equipment.
D) running away from their masters.
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 72

____ percent of the population in some counties of the deep South, especially along the lower Mississippi River, were black.

A) Twenty-five
B) Fifty
C) Seventy-five
D) Ten
E) 95

Question 73

Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840, when they backed the presidential candidate of the

A) Free Soil party.
B) Republican party.
C) Know-Nothing party.
D) Liberty party.
E) Socialist party.

Question 74

By 1860, life for slaves was most difficult in the

A) Atlantic states of North and South Carolina.
B) Deep South states of Georgia and Florida.
C) territories of Kansas, Nebraska, and New Mexico.
D) upper South states of Virginia and Maryland.
E) the new southwest states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Question 75

As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South

A) formed alliances with white imperialists in Africa.
B) adopted British attitudes toward the "peculiar institution."
C) emancipated many slaves.
D) returned to relying on wage labor and indentured servitude for its main agricultural labor force.
E) developed a theory of biological racial superiority to justify slavery.

Question 76

Most slaves were raised

A) without the benefit of a stable home life.
B) in stable two-parent households.
C) never knowing anything about their relatives.
D) without displaying African cultural practices including the distinctive African style of responsorial preaching.
E) without exhibiting any religious practices including a hybrid form of African Christianity.

Question 77

Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four?

A) Nat Turner
B) David Walker
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Denmark Vesey
E) Gabriel

Question 78

In 1839, enslaved Africans rose up aboard the Spanish slave ship

A) Ferdinand.
B) Amistad.
C) La Guerra.
D) La Nina.
E) El Liberte.

Question 79

All of the following were true of slavery in the South EXCEPT that

A) strong-willed slaves were sometimes sent to breakers to coerce slaves into accepting their bondage and the planter's mastery.
B) a distinctive African-American slave culture developed.
C) a typical planter had too much of his own prosperity riding on the backs of his slaves to beat them on a regular basis.
D) the explosive growth of cotton production in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana contributed directly to life being harder for the typical slave in this southern frontier region than other regions of the South or West.
E) most slaves were raised in unstable single-parent households.

Question 80

Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common

A) in the Deep South.
B) on the large plantations.
C) on small plantations and in the upper South.
D) in the territories of Kansas, Nebraska, and New Mexico.
E) as a punishment for running away.