Exam 11: Slaves and Masters

During the Second Seminole War of 1835-1842,________.

Southern proslavery arguments did NOT include the belief that slavery was ________.

If a former slave could not prove he or she had been legally freed,then he or she was likely to be ________.

White southerners in the 1830s began portraying free blacks as savages because they were trying to ________.

Which description best describes the "task" labor that many slaves performed on large plantations?

Slave marriages tended to last longer on ________.

Which statement best describes a major disadvantage of the southern economy?

Most southern planters considered their slaves to be ________.

How did apologists describe the institution of slavery before the 1830s?

Which identifies an advantage to slaves living on large plantations with stable slave populations?

Planters who owned large plantation houses with at least fifty slaves made up about ______ percent of the white population in the South in 1860.

Which statement is true of cotton agriculture in the pre-Civil War era?

Who profited most from the union of slavery and cotton production?

Which description best identifies how Christian slaveholders justified the enslavement of other human beings?

At the time of the Civil War,there were approximately ________ slaves in the South.

When tobacco prices sagged after 1820,________.

Most southern whites ________.

What was the Underground Railroad?

The internal slave trade in the United States ran from ________.

The prosperity of the southern yeoman was limited by the lack of ________.