Exam 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

According to some scholars, the actual material conditions of American slavery may have been better than those of some northern factory workers and better than those of both peasants and industrial workers in much of nineteenth-century Europe.

Southern women generally had final authority on issues related to the home and children.

Prior to 1860, free blacks in the South

To "manumit" means to

What is the difference between slave resistance and slave rebellion? Why was one more prevalent than the other?

Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included

________ led the only actual large-scale slave revolt in the United States in the nineteenth century.

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

Most white southerners owned

Which of the following statements about the southern aristocratic ideal is FALSE?

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.

The South had an inadequate transportation system and only a rudimentary financial system as late as the middle of the nineteenth century.

A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was

Prior to 1860, southern white women

In the South, small farmers, often as much as great planters, were committed to the plantation system.

The historian who wrote "The South [prior to the Civil War] grew, but did not develop" meant that

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

Of the following, the most common form of resistance to slavery was

Which of the following statements regarding urban slavery is FALSE?

What were the differences between being a slave in the city and a slave in the country?