Deck 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy,1793-1860

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Wilberforce

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Denmark Vesey

Answer 2

Answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Theodore Dwight Weld

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Quincy Adams

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
radical abolitionism

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nat Turner

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Wendell Phillips

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Lloyd Garrison

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
land butchery

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
breakers

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sojourner Truth

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
planter aristocracy

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Arthur and Lewis Tappan

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Martin Delany

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Frederick Douglass

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
David Walker

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
black belt

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
responsorial

Question 20

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

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"free-soilers"

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
American Anti-Slavery Society

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
West Africa Squadron

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Liberator

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
mulattoes

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Liberia

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
driver

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"black ivory"

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Amistad

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
American Colonization Society

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"third race"

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gag Resolution

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nat Turner´s rebellion

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"sold down the river"

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
overseer

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Cotton Kingdom

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lane Rebels

Question 41

The contingent of southerners most opposed to both the wealthy planters and African American slaves were the

A) European immigrants
B) mountain whites.
C) small slaveowners.
D) non-slaveowning subsistence farmers.
E) citizens of the border states.

Question 42

As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin,

A) fewer slaves were needed on the plantations.
B) the textile industry expanded in the South.
C) slavery was reinvigorated.
D) the center of cotton production shifted to Tennessee and Missouri.
E) the African slave trade was legalized.

Question 43

Plantation owners generally treated their slaves as

A) worthless beings to be brutally whipped and beaten.
B) valuable capital assets to be used to generate profits.
C) "children" within the master's family.
D) potentially dangerous rebels.
E) a skilled labor force to be trained and educated.

Question 44

In the 1850s,Britain depended on the American South for how much of the raw cotton used by its leading industry,cotton textiles?

A) 10 percent
B) 40 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 75 percent
E) almost 100 percent

Question 45

In 1860,three-quarters of the white population of the South were

A) planter aristocrats.
B) small slaveowners.
C) urban mill workers.
D) European immigrants.
E) non-slaveowning subsistence farmers.

Question 46

By 1860,there were about _____ free blacks living in the South,roughly the same number in the North.

A) 10,000
B) 100,000
C) 250,000
D) 750,000
E) a million

Question 47

Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as

A) supporting their right to full citizenship.
B) disliking the race but liking individual blacks.
C) advocating black movement into the new territories.
D) politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.
E) prejudiced and perhaps even more hostile than Southerners.

Question 48

The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because

A) they opposed slavery.
B) they could not afford the purchase price.
C) they found that slavery was not profitable on small farms.
D) their racism would not allow them to work alongside African Americans.
E) they feared the possibility of slave revolts.

Question 49

European immigration to the South was discouraged by

A) competition with slave labor.
B) southern anti-Catholicism.
C) Irish antislavery groups.
D) immigration barriers enacted by southern states.
E) their inability to tolerate the hot climate.

Question 50

The governing structure of the South was closest to

A) an oligarchy.
B) a theocracy.
C) a pure democracy.
D) an egalitarian commonwealth.
E) a monarchy.

Question 51

In the antebellum South,free blacks constituted a kind of "third race" who

A) were admired and envied by poorer whites.
B) were celebrated by Northerners as examples of black success.
C) were treated as equals to whites under the law but were socially stigmatized.
D) were legally segregated into their own schools and communities.
E) were legally barred from some occupations and resented by defenders of slavery.

Question 52

The suppression of the international slave trade after 1807 led to

A) an expansion in the internal slave trade in the United States.
B) the elimination of all slave importations into the United States.
C) the rapid demise of slavery in the Caribbean and South America.
D) a complete reliance on natural population growth to augment the slave labor force of the cotton-growing regions.
E) the widely accepted practice of forced "breeding" of slaves.

Question 53

Plantation mistresses

A) had little contact with slaves.
B) were often active in the women's rights movement.
C) frequently had moral doubts about slavery.
D) commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.
E) tended to be harsh in their treatment of slaves.

Question 54

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by

A) Susan B. Anthony.
B) Lucretia Mott.
C) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
D) Margaret Fuller.
E) Harriet Tubman.

Question 55

Members of the planter aristocracy

A) focused on cultural gentility rather than politics.
B) dominated society and politics in the South.
C) provided democratic rule in the South.
D) promoted tax-supported public education.
E) kept up with developments in modern thought.

Question 56

In 1860 the slave population in the United States

A) was about one million.
B) totaled more than two million.
C) numbered nearly four million.
D) was declining rapidly.
E) was largely female.

Question 57

Plantation agriculture in the South

A) had become largely unprofitable by the time of the Civil War.
B) succeeded in a great variety of crops and climates.
C) was financially risky.
D) brought many immigrants to the South.
E) encouraged southern democracy.

Question 58

As their main crop,southern subsistence farmers raised

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

Question 59

The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to

A) the reopening of the African slave trade in 1808.
B) imports of slaves from the West Indies.
C) natural reproduction.
D) reenslavement of free blacks.
E) the deliberate "breeding" of slaves by plantation owners.

Question 60

Southern planters viewed the Northern bankers,agents,and shippers with whom they did business as

A) important allies in the struggle to resist British textile manufacturers´ exploitation.
B) resented middlemen.
C) valued fellow supporters of slavery´s expansion.
D) unreliable economic partners.
E) important guarantors of the nation´s stability.

Question 61

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 62

Common forms of slave resistance included

A) refusing to attend to white children before slave children.
B) organizing successful slave rebellions.
C) sabotaging expensive equipment.
D) stealing expensive items from the "big house" for sale on the slave-run black market.
E) refusing to work under black "drivers."

Question 63

By 1860,in some counties of the deep South,especially along the lower Mississippi River,blacks accounted for more than ____ percent of the population.

A) 25
B) 40
C) 50
D) 75
E) 90

Question 64

What most fervently inspired many abolitionists to take action against slavery?

A) Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831
B) the founding of the Republican party
C) Frederick Douglass's speeches
D) the Second Great Awakening
E) the founding of Liberia in 1822

Question 65

Who led a slave rebellion in 1831 in which sixty white Virginians were killed?

A) Nat Turner
B) David Walker
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Denmark Vesey
E) Gabriel

Question 66

After 1830,southerners increasingly argued that

A) slavery was a positive good endorsed by the Bible and Aristotle.
B) slavery was morally problematic but economically necessary.
C) slavery could not be ended because emancipation would deepen racial conflict.
D) poorer whites as well as blacks could be enslaved.
E) leading European intellectuals accepted slavery on racial grounds.

Question 67

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

A) the lure that slaves might eventually purchase their freedom.
B) the protection of slave families.
C) the threat of sale or family disruption.
D) whipping and flogging.
E) incentive of free time for holidays.

Question 68

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to

A) shipping freed blacks back to Africa.
B) a gradual emancipation of all southern slaves.
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 69

What was one of the ways that white slaveholders of the South coped with their own brutality and fears of slave reprisals?

A) Forming alliances with white imperialists in Africa
B) Demanding federal military protection of the "peculiar institution"
C) Organizing a movement to send blacks back to Africa
D) Turning their backs on Christianity
E) Developing an elaborate theory of biological racial difference and white superiority

Question 70

Most African American slaves were raised

A) without the benefit of a stable home life.
B) never knowing anything about their relatives.
C) without religion.
D) knowing both African languages and English.
E) in stable two-parent households.

Question 71

In the pre-Civil War South,the most uncommon and LEAST successful form of slave resistance was

A) feigned laziness.
B) sabotage of plantation equipment.
C) running away.
D) armed insurrection.
E) stealing food and other goods.

Question 72

Match each abolitionist below with his role in the movement.

A) A-4, B-2, C-l, D-3
B) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
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 73

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

A) 1790s.
B) 1820s.
C) 1830s.
D) 1840s.
E) 1850s.

Question 74

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

A) the forced separation of families in slave auctions.
B) slaveowners' frequent use of the whip.
C) the deliberate "breeding" of slave women.
D) the isolation of slaves on remote frontier plantations.
E) forcible sexual assault by slaveowners.

Question 75

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 76

Former slave and abolitionist ____ became particularly famous for his eloquence as a speaker and for his remarkable autobiography.

A) Frederick Douglass
B) Martin Delany
C) David Walker
D) Denmark Vesey
E) Wendell Phillips

Question 77

What was the political and civil status of slaves in the antebellum South?

A) They had no civil or political rights.
B) They had no civil rights but could vote in elections under the direction of their masters.
C) They were allowed to testify in court on a limited basis, but had no other political or civil rights.
D) They could legally marry, but otherwise lacked civil rights.
E) They had no rights except when they could prove that their father was white.

Question 78

By 1860,slaves were concentrated in the

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

Question 79

In 1836,Congress's responded to the growing pile of antislavery petitions it received by

A) considering a constitutional amendment to end the three-fifths compromise.
B) banning public assemblies called for the purpose of discussing slavery.
C) forbidding the transfer of slaves across state lines.
D) ending the international slave trade.
E) passing the Gag Resolution.

Question 80

Abolitionist sentiment first began to appear around the time of the ____,especially among ____.

A) first black codes; freed African Americans
B) American Revolution; Quakers
C) drafting of the Constitution; New England Federalists
D) Era of Good Feelings; former slaves turned abolitionists
E) Second Great Awakening; reform-minded women