Exam 6: Life in the Cotton Kingdom

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Map 6-2 in your textbook clearly indicates that slave populations decreased over time in different regions in the American South,and this decrease had no correlation to the expansion of cotton production over time.

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Question 41

During the 1910s southern historian Ulrich B.Phillips portrayed slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution.

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Question 42

Where was tobacco cultivation most important?

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Question 43

Which crop replaced tobacco as the main cash crop of Virginia and Maryland?

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Question 44

What reason did whites use to justify the sexual exploitation of black women?

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Question 45

__________ and circumstantial evidence indicate that Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings had a long sexual relationship that produced four children who survived to adulthood.

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Question 46

What city served as a major slave market for slaves moving through the Southwest?

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Question 47

Examine Map 6.4 in your textbook.Why did the Upper South contain many free blacks?

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Question 48

Slave clothing was generally __________.

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Question 49

One of the reasons that slavery was called a " " was its use of punishments while masters emphasized the benign nature of human bondage.

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Question 50

What does the pie chart in Map 6-3 in your textbook reveal about the distribution of slave labor in the South in 1850?

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Question 51

The mortality rate among Latin American slaves was far lower than for slaves in the U.S.

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Question 52

As cotton expanded as a cash crop,the slave trade __________.

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Question 53

The concept of deliverance as portrayed in the Bible through the figure of Moses was a major point of importance for slave interpretations of Christianity.

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Question 54

What is the connection between slaves and Christianity in the painting of a plantation burial?

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Question 55

Which of the following statements best characterizes slave childhood?

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Question 56

Examine the 1831 lithograph that portrays a demonstration of Cyrus McCormick's automatic reaper.What is the relationship between the automatic reaper and the slaves depicted in the lithograph?

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Question 57

Examine the 1810 painting Virginia Luxuries that appears in the textbook.What practices does the painting aim to expose and ridicule?

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Question 58

What cultural traditions did slaves incorporate into their Christian religious practices?

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Question 59

What was the importance of the folktales whose heroes are animal tricksters?

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Exam 6: Life in the Cotton Kingdom

Map 6-2 in your textbook clearly indicates that slave populations decreased over time in different regions in the American South,and this decrease had no correlation to the expansion of cotton production over time.

During the 1910s southern historian Ulrich B.Phillips portrayed slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution.

Where was tobacco cultivation most important?

Which crop replaced tobacco as the main cash crop of Virginia and Maryland?

What reason did whites use to justify the sexual exploitation of black women?

__________ and circumstantial evidence indicate that Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings had a long sexual relationship that produced four children who survived to adulthood.

What city served as a major slave market for slaves moving through the Southwest?

Examine Map 6.4 in your textbook.Why did the Upper South contain many free blacks?

Slave clothing was generally __________.

One of the reasons that slavery was called a "__________ __________" was its use of punishments while masters emphasized the benign nature of human bondage.

What does the pie chart in Map 6-3 in your textbook reveal about the distribution of slave labor in the South in 1850?

The mortality rate among Latin American slaves was far lower than for slaves in the U.S.

As cotton expanded as a cash crop,the slave trade __________.

The concept of deliverance as portrayed in the Bible through the figure of Moses was a major point of importance for slave interpretations of Christianity.

What is the connection between slaves and Christianity in the painting of a plantation burial?

Which of the following statements best characterizes slave childhood?

Examine the 1831 lithograph that portrays a demonstration of Cyrus McCormick's automatic reaper.What is the relationship between the automatic reaper and the slaves depicted in the lithograph?

Examine the 1810 painting Virginia Luxuries that appears in the textbook.What practices does the painting aim to expose and ridicule?

What cultural traditions did slaves incorporate into their Christian religious practices?

What was the importance of the folktales whose heroes are animal tricksters?

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