Question 1

Match each description with the item below.
-Gabriel Prosser

Accepted Answer

A) plotted an unsuccessful slave revolt near Richmond with the false expectation that "poor whites" would join 
B) was hanged for killing her master while he was sexually assaulting her and, because she was enslaved, was kept from testifying 
C) ran away from slavery in Maryland and became an outspoken critic of the institution 
D) was a plantation mistress and a critic of gender roles within the plantation system 
E) led a successful slave revolt on Saint-Domingue, the world's richest colony, terrifying many whites
F)plotted an unsuccessful slave rebellion in South Carolina in which blacks were to capture the city's arsenal
G)was a free black man from New York kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South and later wrote Twelve Years a Slave
H)led the largest slave revolt in American history north of New Orleans, resulting in the torture and killing of participants
I)is the author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, portraying southern planters as cunning capitalists who brutalized slaves
J)led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, that led the Virginia legislature to debate the abolition of slavery and states to create more armed patrols 
A) plotted an unsuccessful slave revolt near Richmond with the false expectation that "poor whites" would join 
B) was hanged for killing her master while he was sexually assaulting her and, because she was enslaved, was kept from testifying 
C) ran away from slavery in Maryland and became an outspoken critic of the institution 
D) was a plantation mistress and a critic of gender roles within the plantation system 
E) led a successful slave revolt on Saint-Domingue, the world's richest colony, terrifying many whites
F)plotted an unsuccessful slave rebellion in South Carolina in which blacks were to capture the city's arsenal
G)was a free black man from New York kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South and later wrote Twelve Years a Slave
H)led the largest slave revolt in American history north of New Orleans, resulting in the torture and killing of participants
I)is the author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, portraying southern planters as cunning capitalists who brutalized slaves
J)led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, that led the Virginia legislature to debate the abolition of slavery and states to create more armed patrols

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true of southern free blacks?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were forbidden from becoming skilled laborers and essentially did the same work as slaves, just with their own property. 
B)  They tended to become slaveholders themselves to ensure slaves were treated well and tended to make a fortune in cotton production. 
C)  They were unable to enter into contracts, marry, or own property, as they essentially had the same rights as slaves. 
D)  Although most had lived in the South all their lives, they were forbidden from living in southern states once they acquired their freedom and had to travel north. 
E)  Although they had more rights than slaves, they often lived in fear of being kidnapped into slavery and were subject to racist legal restrictions. 
A)  They were forbidden from becoming skilled laborers and essentially did the same work as slaves, just with their own property. 
B)  They tended to become slaveholders themselves to ensure slaves were treated well and tended to make a fortune in cotton production. 
C)  They were unable to enter into contracts, marry, or own property, as they essentially had the same rights as slaves. 
D)  Although most had lived in the South all their lives, they were forbidden from living in southern states once they acquired their freedom and had to travel north. 
E)  Although they had more rights than slaves, they often lived in fear of being kidnapped into slavery and were subject to racist legal restrictions.

Question 3

During the nineteenth century, major slave rebellions

Accepted Answer

A)  occurred frequently. 
B)  were rare. 
C)  were sometimes joined by poor whites. 
D)  had about even odds of success. 
E)  happened most often in the Lower South. 
A)  occurred frequently. 
B)  were rare. 
C)  were sometimes joined by poor whites. 
D)  had about even odds of success. 
E)  happened most often in the Lower South.

Question 4

What is the significance of the idea of many Souths?

Accepted Answer

A)  The fact that there were three subsections of the South that experienced uniform economic development contributed to the cohesion of the South. 
B)  The contradictions of the South gave rise to competing myths, alternately proud and condemning, based on half-truths and prejudices that still persist today. 
C)  Entrepreneurs capitalized on public fascination with the South by printing many scandalous and misleading accounts of the region, all of which are long lost today. 
D)  The South has many discernable historical eras, although throughout each of them a single southern identity and culture remained. 
E)  Countries that shared a warm southern climate tended to independently adopt similar cultural and economic practices. 
A)  The fact that there were three subsections of the South that experienced uniform economic development contributed to the cohesion of the South. 
B)  The contradictions of the South gave rise to competing myths, alternately proud and condemning, based on half-truths and prejudices that still persist today. 
C)  Entrepreneurs capitalized on public fascination with the South by printing many scandalous and misleading accounts of the region, all of which are long lost today. 
D)  The South has many discernable historical eras, although throughout each of them a single southern identity and culture remained. 
E)  Countries that shared a warm southern climate tended to independently adopt similar cultural and economic practices.

Question 5

Though rare, there were black slave owners in the South.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The rapid expansion of the cotton belt in the South

Accepted Answer

A)  reduced the significance of slavery. 
B)  spurred a rise in the number of enslaved blacks given their freedom. 
C)  ensured that the region became more dependent on enslaved black workers. 
D)  increased the responsibilities of field work for the plantation mistress. 
E)  eliminated the presence of all other staple crops throughout the region. 
A)  reduced the significance of slavery. 
B)  spurred a rise in the number of enslaved blacks given their freedom. 
C)  ensured that the region became more dependent on enslaved black workers. 
D)  increased the responsibilities of field work for the plantation mistress. 
E)  eliminated the presence of all other staple crops throughout the region.

Question 7

As the first half of the nineteenth century progressed, southern slave owners acquired additional slaves from

Accepted Answer

A)  Africa. 
B)  Brazil. 
C)  the domestic slave trade. 
D)  the West Indies. 
E)  Asia. 
A)  Africa. 
B)  Brazil. 
C)  the domestic slave trade. 
D)  the West Indies. 
E)  Asia.

Question 8

The fear of slave resistance and rebellion increased after the successful slave revolt that took over the French island of Saint-Domingue and turned it into the free nation of

Accepted Answer

A)  Puerto Rico. 
B)  Cuba. 
C)  Trinidad. 
D)  Haiti. 
E)  Jamaica. 
A)  Puerto Rico. 
B)  Cuba. 
C)  Trinidad. 
D)  Haiti. 
E)  Jamaica.

Question 9

How prevalent were slave rebellions in antebellum America? Detail the most significant of the nineteenth-century rebellions and explain their significance to understanding the period.

Accepted Answer

Slave rebellions were relatively rare in

Question 10

Which of the following was a characteristic of the South that contributed to its distinctiveness during the first half of the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  the ownership of slaves by the majority of southern whites 
B)  its reliance on factories and banking 
C)  its biracial population and culture 
D)  the high proportion of immigrants that comprised the overall southern population 
E)  its accessible public school system 
A)  the ownership of slaves by the majority of southern whites 
B)  its reliance on factories and banking 
C)  its biracial population and culture 
D)  the high proportion of immigrants that comprised the overall southern population 
E)  its accessible public school system

Question 11

Which of the following was one of the MOST common ways southern planters began their careers?

Accepted Answer

A)  as overseers 
B)  as industrial entrepreneurs in Britain 
C)  as traders and merchants 
D)  as ship captains in the slave trade 
E)  as students at university 
A)  as overseers 
B)  as industrial entrepreneurs in Britain 
C)  as traders and merchants 
D)  as ship captains in the slave trade 
E)  as students at university

Question 12

The large-scale slaveholding planter class made up only a very small portion of the overall southern society.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which of the following statements describes how many white planters treated slave women?

Accepted Answer

A)  White planters avoided sexual relations with slave women because they did not want the financial burden of children. 
B)  White planters treated slave women respectively so as not to upset the plantation mistress. 
C)  Only enslaved mulatto women tended to be sexually abused by white planters. 
D)  The rape of slave women was a common practice and sometimes led to their giving birth. 
E)  White planters forbid slave men from raping slave women because it was against their moral code. 
A)  White planters avoided sexual relations with slave women because they did not want the financial burden of children. 
B)  White planters treated slave women respectively so as not to upset the plantation mistress. 
C)  Only enslaved mulatto women tended to be sexually abused by white planters. 
D)  The rape of slave women was a common practice and sometimes led to their giving birth. 
E)  White planters forbid slave men from raping slave women because it was against their moral code.

Question 14

What was the MOST profitable form of agriculture in the South prior to the rise of cotton?

Accepted Answer

A)  swine 
B)  rice 
C)  indigo 
D)  tobacco 
E)  sugar 
A)  swine 
B)  rice 
C)  indigo 
D)  tobacco 
E)  sugar

Question 15

By 1860, slavery was MOST concentrated

Accepted Answer

A)  in the Lower South. 
B)  in the Carolinas. 
C)  in the Upper South. 
D)  in Texas and Louisiana. 
E)  equally through the South. 
A)  in the Lower South. 
B)  in the Carolinas. 
C)  in the Upper South. 
D)  in Texas and Louisiana. 
E)  equally through the South.

Question 16

The Old Southwest attracted thousands of settlers in the 1820s and 1830s with its low land prices and suitability for cotton production. Many of the settlers migrated from

Accepted Answer

A)  Massachusetts to escape the dreary textile mills and the pollution of industrialization. 
B)  Virginia and the Carolinas due to the exhaustion of the land from years of tobacco cultivation. 
C)  Kentucky to escape the system of slavery and start anew as free blacks. 
D)  Ohio and Pennsylvania as a downturn in steel manufacturing meant a massive loss of jobs. 
E)  Tennessee to start large families on enormous tracts of land they had been granted for free. 
A)  Massachusetts to escape the dreary textile mills and the pollution of industrialization. 
B)  Virginia and the Carolinas due to the exhaustion of the land from years of tobacco cultivation. 
C)  Kentucky to escape the system of slavery and start anew as free blacks. 
D)  Ohio and Pennsylvania as a downturn in steel manufacturing meant a massive loss of jobs. 
E)  Tennessee to start large families on enormous tracts of land they had been granted for free.

Question 17

In the first half of the nineteenth century, which of the following states was in the region considered the Old Southwest?

Accepted Answer

A)  Virginia 
B)  North Carolina 
C)  Mississippi 
D)  Kentucky 
E)  South Carolina 
A)  Virginia 
B)  North Carolina 
C)  Mississippi 
D)  Kentucky 
E)  South Carolina

Question 18

The growth and development of industry in the South

Accepted Answer

A)  consistently lagged behind southern agricultural interests. 
B)  had a greater impact on the southern economy than agriculture. 
C)  resulted in a higher literacy rate in the South than in the North. 
D)  turned the North into a colonial dependency of the more developed South. 
E)  was nonexistent before the start of the Civil War. 
A)  consistently lagged behind southern agricultural interests. 
B)  had a greater impact on the southern economy than agriculture. 
C)  resulted in a higher literacy rate in the South than in the North. 
D)  turned the North into a colonial dependency of the more developed South. 
E)  was nonexistent before the start of the Civil War.

Question 19

What developments led to the rise of the Cotton Kingdom during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  the fact that the American South was the only region in the world with the climate to cultivate cotton and the economic downturn in the rest of the world 
B)  the refusal of Americans to create large companies and the value Americans placed on plantations as the country's main commercial institution 
C)  the growth of British textile mills due to advancements in mechanical production and American Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin 
D)  a close trade partnership between the American South and India and the American South's resulting adoption of India's handloom technologies 
E)  the decline of New York City as an industrial trade center and the rise of southern cities that would temporarily surpass it in importance 
A)  the fact that the American South was the only region in the world with the climate to cultivate cotton and the economic downturn in the rest of the world 
B)  the refusal of Americans to create large companies and the value Americans placed on plantations as the country's main commercial institution 
C)  the growth of British textile mills due to advancements in mechanical production and American Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin 
D)  a close trade partnership between the American South and India and the American South's resulting adoption of India's handloom technologies 
E)  the decline of New York City as an industrial trade center and the rise of southern cities that would temporarily surpass it in importance

Question 20

Approximately how many slaves joined Christian denominations by 1860?

Accepted Answer

A)  none 
B)  100 percent 
C)  more than half 
D)  20 percent 
E)  less than 1 percent 
A)  none 
B)  100 percent 
C)  more than half 
D)  20 percent 
E)  less than 1 percent

Exam 11: The South

Match each description with the item below. -Gabriel Prosser

Which of the following statements is true of southern free blacks?

During the nineteenth century, major slave rebellions

What is the significance of the idea of many Souths?

Though rare, there were black slave owners in the South.

The rapid expansion of the cotton belt in the South

As the first half of the nineteenth century progressed, southern slave owners acquired additional slaves from

The fear of slave resistance and rebellion increased after the successful slave revolt that took over the French island of Saint-Domingue and turned it into the free nation of

How prevalent were slave rebellions in antebellum America? Detail the most significant of the nineteenth-century rebellions and explain their significance to understanding the period.

Which of the following was a characteristic of the South that contributed to its distinctiveness during the first half of the eighteenth century?

Which of the following was one of the MOST common ways southern planters began their careers?

The large-scale slaveholding planter class made up only a very small portion of the overall southern society.

Which of the following statements describes how many white planters treated slave women?

What was the MOST profitable form of agriculture in the South prior to the rise of cotton?

By 1860, slavery was MOST concentrated

The Old Southwest attracted thousands of settlers in the 1820s and 1830s with its low land prices and suitability for cotton production. Many of the settlers migrated from

In the first half of the nineteenth century, which of the following states was in the region considered the Old Southwest?

The growth and development of industry in the South

What developments led to the rise of the Cotton Kingdom during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Approximately how many slaves joined Christian denominations by 1860?

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