Exam 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

From the 1830s on, state laws governing slavery became gradually less rigid.

Within the American South, the institution of slavery

Society in the antebellum South placed the plantation owner at the top of the social order.

Slaves were expected by their owners to attend church.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the South underwent a much less fundamental transformation than did the North.

By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly ________ of the total export trade of the United States.

Describe the distinguishing class features of the people who were known as "planters," "plain folk," "hill people," or "crackers."

________ was the leader of an aborted slave revolt in South Carolina in the early 1820s.

Regarding religion, American slaves

The South may have failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT

Most enslaved blacks lived

One historian said that the South of the period "grew, but it did not ________."

The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to

Prior to 1860, how did the role and status of southern women compare to that of northern women?

In the late 1850s, many of the great landholders of the lower South were

The North, unlike the South, experienced great economic growth in the mid-nineteenth century.

As compared to nineteenth-century white practices, religious services for American slaves

Prior to 1860, affluent southern white women

To overcome communication barriers, African slaves learned a simple, common language known as "________" English.

The mountain regions were the only parts of the South to resist the movement toward secession when it finally developed.