Exam 11: The South

Denmark Vesey planned an unsuccessful rebellion that nevertheless led state officials to place additional restrictions on the mobility of free blacks and black religious gatherings.

A typical form of resistance pursued by slaves entailed

The number of enslaved African Americans in the Border South greatly decreased by 1860 because cotton could not thrive there.

Slave religion

Southerners had always used religion as a means of defending slavery.

Match each description with the item below. -Toussaint L'Ouverture

Match each description with the item below. -Mary Chesnut

Though southern whites tended to be Catholic, slaves tended to join evangelical sects because the rigid hierarchy of Catholicism mirrored the hierarchy of southern society.

Poor whites were often employed as

The slave population in the South shrank between 1790 and 1830 due to rising abolitionist sentiments and the end of the slave trade.

Which of the following statements was generally true of slave life in the first half of the nineteenth century?

By the early nineteenth century, the South's sugar sector was

With how numerous and entrenched plantations were in the southern economy, even most "poor whites" owned plantations in the South.

As a result of the South's emphasis on agriculture, the population of the South

Which of the following statements accurately describes the relationship between the North and South during the first half of the nineteenth century?

On a plantation, the position responsible for managing the agricultural production in every way Was the

The Old South was socially, culturally, and economically the most unified region of the United States.

Life in the Old Southwest was characterized by

Match each description with the item below. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

The frequency of dueling in the South was probably caused by